- Home
- Scheda struttura
The site in which is now located the Church of Pope St. Silvestro in Montazzoli had a chapel dedicated to St. Vincenzo. The present building was built after the sacred previous parish church, dedicated to Santa Maria del Purgatorio which lies at the foot of the castle overlooking the town, had to be abandoned in 1724 because of limited capacity to growing population. The Church consists of a simple external structure: the face, it has a stone portal with arched frame broke baroque style; above opens a window in a rectangular shape topped by a statue in a niche. At the back rises the bell tower, which resembles the style of the late Roman Abruzzo. The interior has a nave, side altars cashed in deep compartments of the walls. And the wooden altar tabernacle dates back sixteenth century, which has a complex structure, with pairs of columns at the sides and crowning arch.Other vestments of great artistic value are present in the Church, mostly from the religious buildings that went to replace it in the early eighteenth century. Among these, the most significant a processional cross, which is perhaps due in part to Nicola Guardiagrele, then from the early fifteenth century, while other parts seem to be of the sixteenth century. Some other pieces held in the Church of silverware are from eighteenth century.