Santi Giacomo e Filippo, Neoclassical parish church in Cornaredo, Italy.
Santi Giacomo e Filippo is the parish church of Cornaredo, built in the second half of the 19th century in neoclassical forms and facing Piazza Libertà. Its facade has a small colonnade, a raised pediment and two angel statues on top. The bell tower, which already needed consolidation at the end of the 19th century, holds a five-bell concert.
The church's origin is medieval, already listed in Goffredo da Bussero's Liber Notitiae Sanctorum Mediolanensis under the Pieve di Nerviano; in the 17th century it passed to the Pieve di Rho. The old building, damaged in marginal clashes of the Battle of Magenta, was demolished and rebuilt in the mid-19th century; local masons and carpenters offered their work almost free, and the new church opened on 4 October 1863. Cardinal Andrea Carlo Ferrari consecrated it on 9 November 1906, placing relics of Saints Donato and Fruttuoso in the new high altar.
The church serves as a gathering place for Cornaredo's residents and remains central to the religious life of the community. People gather here for worship and to mark significant moments in their lives together.
The church faces Piazza Libertà in Cornaredo's historic centre, so it is reached on foot from the surrounding streets. The bell tower, consolidated at the end of the 19th century, carries an electric clock installed in 1952 and bells automated in 1957. Access follows worship; check opening times before a visit.
The organ, built by Carlo Aletti of Monza and finished in 1870, sat silent for five decades until the Mascioni organ firm restored it; the parish priest Monsignor Fabio Turba blessed it on the evening of Saint Ambrose, 7 December 2016, the vigil of the Immaculate Conception.
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