Castiglione in Teverina. Collegiate Church of St. Philip and James

Castiglione in Teverina. Collegiate Church of St. Philip and James

The church of St. Philip and James was finished in 1630 and has a Renaissance style facade in Castiglione in Teverina.

In the central entrance is a frame made of travertine that reads: "SS. IACOB. PHILIP ET. December A.D. MDCXXX".

Connected to the structure is smmira the bell tower with double belfry: the bottom has four bells and the top has a bell attached to a clock.

The tower bells are then covered with a metal pyramid.

The interior has three naves with four side altars and in the greater central nave, there is a seventeenth-century wooden tabernacle with six silver-plated copper candlesticks made by Scalza in 1783.

The baptismal font from the late fifteenth century is in finely worked stone and the church is adorned with valuable works like a wooden crucifix of the fifteenth century and a painting attributed to the Master of Castiglione.

In the side altars can be admired paintings ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century


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Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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