Temple of regular rectangular plan with the main facade facing east with the entrance opened by a door with jambs and stone lintel which is accessed by stairs. The frontispiece displays two panels and three registers, and a bell tower in the northeast corner. Inside, the high altar raised above the level of the main nave and the high wooden choir above the entrance stand out. , including a Virgin with the Child and an Archangel of S. Miguel from the 14th to the 16th centuries, exhumed during works carried out in the church in the 20th century. The patron of the church is St. John the Baptist.
The chronology of the temple is difficult to specify, a first and modest temple, called "chapel" in the documents of the registry office of the Monastery of Alcobaça already existed there in the 14th century, succeeding it a mother church in which the priest Domingos Vicente in the year 1425 (1). We know little about this past church, but a date inscribed on a stone inside the church (1633) may indicate some reconstruction or expansion work on the original temple.
At the end of the 17th century, the church was in very bad shape, a situation that was worsened by the earthquake of 1755. By royal decision, the Monastery of Alcobaça is required to pay for its rebuilding (2), a work that lasted for about two years, from 1762 to 1764, and which gives the church its contemporary façade. Other repairs or improvements to the church or its roof will be carried out in different periods, namely in the mid-nineteenth century and in the late sixties of the twentieth century. The church bell tower, however, was not erected during the 18th century building campaign, but only in the first decade of the 20th century, in 1905-1906, with funds from donations from the faithful, requested by the parish priest at the time, the Father Manuel Rodrigues (3).
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