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6 Año IV - Nº 38 - Julio | July | Juli - 2009 ACTUALIDAD LOCAL / LOCAL NEWS / AKTUELLES VOR ORT The Cabildo completes the roof and floor repairs at San Agustín de Tefía’s chapel FMHOY - Fuerteventura The Cabildo, with the Culture and Historic Heritage Council, started the repairs on San Agustín de Tefía’s chapel with a project that aimed at repairing the surrounding wall, roof and exterior and interior floors of the building that was built by the village’s habitants between 1713 and 1714. San Agustín de Tefía’s chapel is an example of the great artistic and historic worthiness of Majorero religious architecture. Thanks to projects like this one, their peculiarities are discovered and can be recorded for their protection and preservation, so that future generations can inherit of this cultural heritage in the best conditions. Regarding the roof – of which the interior is made of a Canarian pine structure for the main nave and an octagonal dome covered with plaster friezes-, the repairs included the restoration of the wooden structure with a bactericide preventive treatment and the replacement of the few most damaged parts. On the exterior, the project consisted mainly of replacing the roof tiles – original Arabic tiles that could come from Los Molinos’ quarry. The state of disrepair of the roof had resulted in humidity infiltrations that created damage on the interior wooden structure, although it had recently been repaired in the 90’s. Another important aspect of the project is the repair of the chapel’s exterior surrounding wall (called «barbacana») that consisted of removing benches built against the wall that were not part of the original structure and prevented the airing of the wall, thus creating humidity. A surrounding wall sometimes appears in Majorero religious architecture (six temples on the island have one). The surrounding walls built in Fuerteventura were built around chapels that are away from other habitations and therefore were probably built to keep livestock away from the buildings, which were also used as refuges for the population as churches tended to be the most robust buildings in villages. The interior floor of the chapel is another peculiarity of this project, is it made of local handmade sandstone slabs of various sizes. The floor presented irregularities on its surface due to the fragility of the material, worsened by use and humidity. According to Mr. Rodríguez Molina, to dismantle and restore the floor would have been a complicated procedure that would not have guaranteed the material’s preservation and «substitution is completely against the main principles of restoration». It was decided to keep the original slabs by installing a mat of vegetal fibre on wooden flooring on the main path and in the most deteriorated areas, «it is better to show time that has gone by rather than cheat on history», he explains. Finally, for the chapel’s exterior flooring, covered with concrete slabs in the 80’s, the project proposed to mark the cross pattern of the slabs with stones, a solution that breaks up the continuity of the plains slabs and makes the area look more adequate around this traditional architecture. FRANSISCAN SOBRIETY The chapel of San Agustín de Tefía displays the usual Fransiscan sobriety, and consists of a unique dome with the sacristy on one side of the epistle and a gable roof. In this case the chapel has a false octagonal shaped dome which is unique in the island’s architecture. Its construction at the beginning of the 18 th century comes within a general process occurring at this time in Fuerteventura. A Royal warrant from Felipe V, responding to a request from Bishop Juan Ruiz Simón, authorised him to build the parishes of Pájara and La Oliva in 1708 that were consecrated in 1711, at the time there was only one parish in Fuerteventura. This opened the way for other bishops and neighbours to request new authorisations and various parishes on the Island were created of which we can witness temples all over the island. Although it didn’t have a chapel until 1714, Tefía consisted of a large population due to the immigration of farm labourers who used to come from western islands to cultivate grapevine and harvest cereals.
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