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Church of San Quirico and Giulitta

Church of San Quirico and Giulitta - photo by Sandro Bedessi

Via Santa Giulitta, 12

The church was once subjected to the Pieve di Santo Stefano. It became Priorate in 1518 and Propositura in 1746. It is already seat of canonical settlements from 1300. In the sixteenth century Monsignor Alessandro de' Medici, the future Pope Leone II, extended and restored the church deeply and kept the Oratory of the Company, now used like the parish theatre. With Romanesque forms, evident especially in the hut front, the church is covered with limestone and travertine, and it has on a side a quadrangular bell tower with single-lancet window of modern times. Inside an only wide trussed aisle, from the entrance on the left wall you can see a wooden bust of Christ, a stone baptismal font, a niche with a nineteenth-century fresco, two stone altars with Sant'Andrea and the Virgin Mary of the Rosary of the fifteenth century, a stone tabernacle of the sacred oil inside frescoed by Antonio Manzi.
Taken out from the Text: Campi Bisenzio by Massimo Biagioni.

 

Parish Priest

Don Nicodemo Delli

Addresses

Telephone 055 8951009

 

The History

The church, once subjected to the Pieve di Santo Stefano, became Priorate in 1518 and Propositura in 1746. It was already seat of canonical settlements from 1300. In the sixteenth century Alessandro de' Medici widened and restored the church deeply and in 1580 founded the Oratory of the Company. In 1635 other works interested the parsonage and the church thanks to the Archbishop Pietro Niccolini (of whom we have still some coat-of-arms) and in 1750 from the Archbishop Incontri (to whom a memorial tablet for the effected works was dedicated), with the enrichment of ornaments and interior works, with a deep modification of the building. In 1887 extensions of the choirstall were effected.
Taken out from the Text: Campi Bisenzio by Massimo Biagioni