It is located on Rua Direita, Vila de Óbidos, District of Leiria, Central Portugal
The town of Óbidos was conquered from Arab rule by D. Afonso Henriques in 1148, and was donated to D. Urraca, wife of D. Afonso II in 1210.
The town belonged until 1834 to the Casa das Rainhas, where its first charter was issued, granted on an unknown date, and a new charter was given by D. Manuel in 1513.
The pillory shortly before the Manueline charter, appears in the central square of the town, has a curious location as it is located on a narrow street, and its steps are partially embedded in the wall that separates the street from the front square.
The complex stands on a platform of three circular steps, with an edge, formed by roughly equipped blocks, with around a third of its area embedded in the wall.
The steps are of modern design, in old engravings they are represented in an octagonal shape.
The column has a late-Gothic base, an octagonal plan with concave faces horizontally intercepted by two protruding circular frames.
The pillory column with a hexagonal base rests on a three-step pedestal, has a cylindrical shaft divided by a twisted middle ring and is finished with an acanthus crown with a conical orb, below which are the royal shields and the emblem of Dona Leonor.
The top of this block seeks agreement with the shaft that rises in a smooth cylindrical column with a thick strung medial ring.
At the top of the shaft are two heraldic symbols, a crowned national shield and a shrimp boat (drag net).
The capital is in the form of an open crown, good dimensions and vegetal decoration, and the interior of which the finial projects, is composed of a sphere or pine cone topped by a double ring, a small conical spiral trunk, the grimpa is a forked iron pinwheel flag.
The assembly (apposition) of the very prominent heraldry is typically Manueline, the royal shield crowned with the shrimp tree, emblem of D. Leonor, the old queen.
Queen D. Leonor and King D. João II had resided in Óbidos, and this pillory belonged to the Casa das Rainhas and essentially to D. Leonor, who was D. Manuel's sister, to which the symbolic pillory alludes stands in front of the town's Church of Santa Maria, a temple with medieval roots that was profoundly renovated by D. Leonor, between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th.
The Pelourinho de Óbidos is a cylindrical structure built in limestone that in the Middle Ages served as a point of application of justice.
The Pelourinho features on one side the shield with the royal weapons and on the other side D. Leonor's shrimp boat which he donated to the village in memory of the net in which the fishermen brought him his son who died in a hunting accident.
The town belonged until 1834 to the Casa das Rainhas, where its first charter was issued, granted on an unknown date, and a new charter was given by D. Manuel in 1513.
The pillory shortly before the Manueline charter, appears in the central square of the town, has a curious location as it is located on a narrow street, and its steps are partially embedded in the wall that separates the street from the front square.
The complex stands on a platform of three circular steps, with an edge, formed by roughly equipped blocks, with around a third of its area embedded in the wall.
The steps are of modern design, in old engravings they are represented in an octagonal shape.
The column has a late-Gothic base, an octagonal plan with concave faces horizontally intercepted by two protruding circular frames.
The pillory column with a hexagonal base rests on a three-step pedestal, has a cylindrical shaft divided by a twisted middle ring and is finished with an acanthus crown with a conical orb, below which are the royal shields and the emblem of Dona Leonor.
The top of this block seeks agreement with the shaft that rises in a smooth cylindrical column with a thick strung medial ring.
At the top of the shaft are two heraldic symbols, a crowned national shield and a shrimp boat (drag net).
The capital is in the form of an open crown, good dimensions and vegetal decoration, and the interior of which the finial projects, is composed of a sphere or pine cone topped by a double ring, a small conical spiral trunk, the grimpa is a forked iron pinwheel flag.
The assembly (apposition) of the very prominent heraldry is typically Manueline, the royal shield crowned with the shrimp tree, emblem of D. Leonor, the old queen.
Queen D. Leonor and King D. João II had resided in Óbidos, and this pillory belonged to the Casa das Rainhas and essentially to D. Leonor, who was D. Manuel's sister, to which the symbolic pillory alludes stands in front of the town's Church of Santa Maria, a temple with medieval roots that was profoundly renovated by D. Leonor, between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th.
The Pelourinho de Óbidos is a cylindrical structure built in limestone that in the Middle Ages served as a point of application of justice.
The Pelourinho features on one side the shield with the royal weapons and on the other side D. Leonor's shrimp boat which he donated to the village in memory of the net in which the fishermen brought him his son who died in a hunting accident.
