San Francesco, Gothic Revival church in Florence, Italy

San Francesco is a Gothic Revival church built in 1887 by architect Vincenzo Micheli. Its gabled facade has a triangular crown with hanging blind arches, a marble portal, and a lunette by Quinto Martini showing Saint Francis receiving the stigmata. Inside, two naves are covered by exposed wooden trusses, with blind pointed arches on carved capitals along the main nave.

Vincenzo Micheli designed the church in Gothic Revival style, completed in 1887 for the Carmelite nuns of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, who had left their convent in Borgo Pinti. In 1928 the Franciscans took over the convent and had the church enlarged to a design by their confrere Raffaello Franci. It became a parish on 15 April 1930 by archbishopric decree, was consecrated in 1932, and was last renovated in 1971, when new spaces were opened and the floor repaved.

The name comes from the Franciscans who took over the convent in 1928 and enlarged the church. Above the marble portal, a lunette by Quinto Martini shows Saint Francis receiving the Stigmata, and a ghimberga above it holds an angel bust at its centre. The adjoining convent keeps the archive of the Minor Observant Friars of the Tuscan Province.

The church stands on Piazza Savonarola, north of Florence's historic centre. Enter from the square through the marble portal; inside, the two naves are covered by exposed wooden trusses, and the organ with 44 registers sits on two facing cantorie beside the altar. The presbytery is modern, with arcades behind it leading to the baptistery.

The two aisles are covered by exposed wooden trusses, and the organ built by La Frescobalda in 1988-89 stands on two facing cantorias beside the altar, with 44 registers on two manuals and pedal. The marble portal carries a lunette by Quinto Martini showing Saint Francis receiving the stigmata.