San Francesco d'Assisi, Gothic church in Pavia, Italy

San Francesco d'Assisi is a church with a polychrome facade and twin entrance doors in Pavia. The building combines Romanesque elements in its rear section with Gothic features at the front.

The Franciscans settled in Pavia around 1220, first at a church dedicated to the Madonna outside the walls, where a document of 1234 still records them. Work on the present church inside the walls began in 1267 and proceeded slowly; church and convent were nearly finished in 1298, when the friars ceded the suburban complex to the Carmelites. After 1359 Galeazzo II chose it for Visconti burials.

The church holds the Gothic busts in gilded copper that Ottone Mandelli donated in 1399 (or 1388) to hold relics of Saints Apollonius, Victor and Corona, taken from Canossa Castle. The chapel of Saint Agnes was founded in 1307, and the Landolfi chapel, built in 1387, has an exterior epigraph naming its founder. The altarpiece of Saint Matthew by Vincenzo Campi, painted in 1588, is cited by critics as a precedent for Caravaggio.

The church stands inside Pavia's historic centre, a short walk from the covered bridge and the university. The entrance is on the west front, and the nave opens into side chapels added between the 14th and 15th centuries. The bell tower, built in the second half of the 13th century, rises beside the apse.

The Gothic busts donated by Ottone Mandelli in 1399, which held relics of Saint Apollonius, Saint Victor and Saint Corona, are now kept in the Diocesan Museum of Pavia rather than in the church. The English source dates the gift to 1388 and the relics' seizure from Canossa to 1381.