[1] By 28 July 1180, the monastery at Bravães was already autonomous; from a letter by Avelino de Jesus da Costa, it had already been granted special privileges by the same monarch.

[1] This work became a function of the civil parish of Bravães later, as on 12 January 1843, they established a budget to be used in the maintenance of the parochial church.

[1] Beginning in 1931, the DGEMN Direcção-Geral de Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais (General Directorate for Buildings and National Monuments) started various restoration works on the church.

[1] This included the demolition of the northern chapel (where the sacristy functioned) and the construction of a larger annex; the demolition of the old sacristy; opening of the lateral northern doorway (which was blocked); dismantling of the choir, frontispiece, nave altars and substitution of the altar; the consolidation and repositioning of the architrave of the main chapel; removal of the pulpit, existing tiles and reconstruction of the same; cleaning and repairs to the stonework (interior and exterior); consolidation and restoration of Rosetta window; reconstruction of the granite slab pavement and leveling; regularization of the churchyard; construction and replacement of the doorways and the placement of the windows.

[1] This work ultimately lead to the 1995 project by the IPPAR to restore two frescoes that flanked the triumphal archway, in addition to consolidation and cleaning.

[1] The longitudinal plan of the church is composed of a single-nave and rectangular presbytery (which is lower and narrower), with northern sacristy and tiled roof.

[1] Its principal facade terminates in the gabled roof and includes a central portico on the ground floor, consisting of four columns supporting an architrave with decorative zoomorphic motifs.

[1] The columns of this portico are decorated with monkeys, human figures (interpreted as the Virgin Mary and Angel Gabriel), entwined serpents and eagles with their beaks within a cornucopia.

On the south facade is a Romanesque doorway with zoomorphic forms and tympanum with Agnus Dei and cross under a double archivolt that consists of decorated pearl fillets.

[1] The interior nave is circled by frieze, with four slits flanked by columns and capitals, decorated with vegetal and geometric shapes over archways.