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Collegiate church of Sant'Esuperanzio, Cingoli

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The interior has remnants of early frescoes, that encompassed the chapels erected by local aristocratic families that were found between the pillars. Two survive more intact that the others, the chapel of the Silvestri on the left, and of the Simonetti with Renaissance style altars and candelabra.
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The façade was intended to be sheathed in decorative marble, but remains unfinished in stone bricks. It has a small but delicate rose window in the center, and a single portal with a concave recession of a series of columns with a rounded arch. In the lunette is a sculpted image of the holy bishop
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The interior is characterized by pointed gothic arches supporting the roof. The presbytery is raised to accommodate a crypt that held the relics of the Saint and attendant monks. One of the pillars in the presbytery has a 14th century seal carved in the sandstone with the words
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Esuperanzio with angels. In the architrave are symbols of the evangelists and a gothic inscription. The work is attribute to a Master Giacomo of Cingoli, who also appears to have worked in the church of
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collegiate church located on Via Sant'Esuperanzio, just northwest of the historic center of the town of
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The Simonetti chapel also has a 13th-century painted wooden crucifix. The church also contains a
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in Cingoli. To the right side of the church is the prior with three arches supporting a loggia.
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The collegiate is first documented by 1139, when the property was assigned by
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13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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Romanesque
Gothic
Roman Catholic
Cingoli
Marche
Pope Innocent III
Fonte Avellana abbey
Romanesque
Gothic
Santa Maria della Castellaretta
Staffolo
San Francesco
San Nicolò
polyptych
Giovanni Antonio Bellinzoni da Pesaro
Sebastiano del Piombo
Tourism site of the Marche
Archived
Wayback Machine
43°22′38″N 13°12′50″E / 43.377240°N 13.213893°E / 43.377240; 13.213893
Categories
Romanesque architecture in le Marche
Gothic architecture in le Marche
13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Roman Catholic churches in Cingoli

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