Church San Lazzaro, Roman Catholic church in eastern Pavia, Italy.

The church of San Lazzaro is a small, single-nave building in eastern Pavia, built in the 12th century along the Via Francigena. Its gabled facade features a blind loggia and 13th-century Byzantine ceramic dishes, while some capitals of the central mullioned window date to the Carolingian era. A similar blind loggia runs along the north side, where a second portal opens.

Documented in 1157, when Gislenzone Salimbene and his sons Siro and Malastrava donated land to the church and its pilgrim hospital on the Via Francigena, keeping patronage until the 17th century. Bishop Fulco Scotti set the hospital's rules in 1216; Gian Galeazzo Visconti granted privileges in 1376, popes Martin V and Paul II in 1426 and 1466. French troops damaged the complex during the 1525 siege and battle of Pavia. Pius IV made the hospital a Commandery of the Order of Saint Lazarus in 1565.

The name comes from the hospital for lepers run here by the Order of Saint Lazarus; in 1565 Pius IV raised it to a Commandery, and in 1572 the order merged with that of Saint Maurice. The church has depended on San Pietro in Verzolo since 1581. On the facade, look for the 13th-century Byzantine ceramic dishes set into the brickwork.

The church stands in Pavia's eastern outskirts, along the route of the Via Francigena, and still depends on the parish of San Pietro in Verzolo. A second portal opens on the north side, beneath the blind loggia that runs along that flank. The interior is a single nave, so the apse frescoes are visible from the entrance.

The blind loggia on the facade and the north side is set with Byzantine ceramic dishes from the 13th century, a feature shared with other buildings in Pavia. Some capitals of the central mullioned window are older still, carved in the Carolingian age.