Sant'Andrea's church, Romanesque church in Vittorio Veneto, Italy
Sant'Andrea's Church is a Romanesque building in Vittorio Veneto featuring a single nave that terminates in a rectangular apse. A bell tower with paired arch windows stands on the southern side alongside the sacristy.
The church is first documented in 1224 in the will of Gabriele II da Camino, and was rebuilt in Romanesque style before being reconsecrated on 7 July 1303 and again in 1486. Restorations by the Cassamarca foundation revealed a 10th-century necropolis and charcoal traces dating to the 3rd century AD. It became a curacy on 21 November 1865 and was restored as a parish on 12 December 1947.
The church served as a central gathering place for religious processions and community events throughout its history. The painted scenes inside tell stories of Saint Andrew and remain visible on the interior walls today.
The church stands at the end of a long avenue lined with cypress trees, facing Villa Vicentini Breda Beretta, once its canonica. The rectangular portal is topped by a lunette fresco of Saint Andrew, with a five-lobed rose window above. Sacristy and bell tower are attached to the south side; the interior is a single nave ending in a rectangular apse.
The church keeps doors from an earlier building: the sacristy and bell-tower doors and the baptismal font survive from the structure replaced by the Romanesque rebuild. The chapel of the Battuti, added in 1337, holds a fresco cycle on the life of Saint Andrew.
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