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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45191| Title: | The doorway between the churches |
| Other Titles: | The doorway between the churches [ Excavation report ] |
| Authors: | Blagg, T. F. C. Bonanno, Anthony |
| Keywords: | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Malta -- Ħal Millieri States, Small -- Politics and government Church buildings -- Malta -- History Chapel of the Annunciation (Żurrieq, Malta) |
| Issue Date: | 1990 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta |
| Citation: | Blagg, T. F. C., & Bonanno, A. (1990). The doorway between the churches. In T. F. C. Blagg, A. Bonanno, & A. T. Luttrell, Excavations at Ħal Millieri, Malta: a report on the 1977 campaign conducted on behalf of the National Museum of Malta and the University of Malta (pp. 41-42). Msida: Malta University Press. |
| Abstract: | The first documentary reference to a doorway connecting the two adjacent churches is in the visitation report of 1621. The report of 1636 described it: intus utramque est ianua aperta. It would, however, appear to have been there at least by 1575 when the pavimentum of the Visitation church was mentioned, since its paving stones are visible beneath the stones now blocking the doorway and were evidently laid so as to run through it (Plate 20). While it is not possible to decide beyond all doubt how much earlier than that the doorway was constructed, there are several points which suggest that it was not an original feature of the Annunciation church. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45191 |
| Appears in Collections: | Excavations at Ħal Millieri, Malta : a report on the 1977 campaign conducted on behalf of the National Museum of Malta and the University of Malta |
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