The church and convent are located in the Historic Center of Igarassu, itself protected as an urban architectural ensemble since 1972.

Barlaeus published Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum sub praefectura in 1647, which included an engraving of the Church and Convent of Saint Antony among a collection of maps, cityscapes, and landscapes.

The Dutch artist Frans Post (1612–1680) depicted the church and convent in a painting now located in the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau, Germany.

It was then used by the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of Good Shepherd, of Angers, France, which maintained a school under the auspices of the state of Pernambuco.

[5] The Church and Convent of Saint Antony is built in the Franciscan Baroque style of colonial Brazil.

The lower horizontal level has a galilee porch with three arches and a single door to the church nave.

Germain Bazin links its construction to that of the Franciscan Third Order chapel, built between 1753 and 1762 on the north side of the church.

[4][1] A large cross on a pedestal is located in the churchyard, a feature common to Franciscan convents in Brazil.

It has a large number of panels of azulejos similar to those found across Franciscan colonial churches across Brazil.

The barrel vault of the nave has a large ceiling painting by an anonymous artist; it depicts the lives of the Franciscan saints Bernardino of Siena, Didacus of Alcalá, Paschal Baylón, and Peter de Regalado.

It has a large lavabo, a basin for hand washing, made of lioz marble imported from Portugal.

The brotherhood built a chapel in the same year, with its foundation stone dated November 15, 1753; the structure was completed in 1762.