San Zenone, Religious building in San Zenone degli Ezzelini, Italy
San Zenone is a parish church built between 1860 and 1870 to designs by engineer Francesco Pellizzari. Its southeast facade has a Corinthian-columned portico, a rose window within a relief round arch, and a pediment with three statues; a square bell tower with mullioned windows and battlements stands nearby. Inside is a single nave with side chapels, a raised presbytery and a semicircular apse.
A new church was proposed for San Zenone as early as the 18th century, but work only began after 1855. The first stone was laid on 2 February 1860 to designs by engineer Francesco Pellizzari, after Andrea Favero's costlier plan was rejected. The building was finished in 1870 and consecrated on 13 August 1871. A new floor was laid in 1970, a forward-facing altar added in 1974, the roof restored in 1981-82 and the facade renovated in 2001.
The parish church is dedicated to Saint Zeno, patron of the town that bears his name. Inside, frescoes by Noè Bordignon, a painter from Castelfranco, depict the imprisonment of Blessed Giordano Forzatè, the Assumption, the Glory of Saint Zeno, the Apostles, the Last Judgment and the theological virtues, painted at the end of the 19th century.
The facade faces southeast, with the entrance portal under a porch on two Corinthian columns; the square bell tower with a mullioned window on each side and a crenellated top stands a few metres away on a high battered base. The single nave is flanked by side chapels and ends in a raised presbytery with a semicircular apse.
The 1912 high altar was built by the Cavallin brothers, and the interior frescoes were painted by Noè Bordignon of Castelfranco at the end of the 19th century. They show the Imprisonment of Blessed Giordano Forzatè, the Assumption of the Virgin, the Glory of Saint Zeno, the Apostles, the Last Judgment and the theological virtues.
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