[1] Beginning on 11 August 1835, the parish council and priest made a formal request to the office of the vacated bishopric of Angra, to change its patronage to that of Our Lady of Deliverance (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora do Livramento).

[1] This was also confirmed in a report by the Civil Governor for the District of Horta, António José Vieira Santa Rita, who considered it lamentable the degree to which the spaces had been conserved.

[1] The church is implanted in the centre of the agglomeration known locally as Caveira de Cima, along the roadway connecting other arterials, over an elevated platform above the road.

[1] The rectangular church comprises a nave with belltower and presbytery, with a sacristy and annex addorsed to the main body, covered in tiled roof.

[2] Above the cornice is frontispiece divided in three, consisting of a central section decorated by star-shaped oculus flanked by two small stars framed by circumference.

[2] In the sacristy, to the left of the door connecting it to the nave is a steep staircase to the pulpit protected by wooden balustrade, with a small storage area below it.

[2] In the main altar there a doorway to storage and windows on either wall, while the space is dominated by a gilded and polychromatic retable in an eclectic Revivalist style.