Bell Tower - San Benedetto in Piscinula - Roma, Italy
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San Benedetto in Piscinula (St. Benedict in Piscinula) is an early 12th century church, heavily restored, in the rione Trastevere in Rome, on Piazza in Piscinula.
Waymark Code: WM113KV
Location: Lazio, Italy
Date Posted: 08/10/2019
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"The Romanesque brick campanile, of the later 12th century, is over the bottom end of the left aisle. It is claimed to be the smallest such in Rome, which is not strictly correct as the one at San Biagio in Mercatello is smaller. However, it is the smallest still in use.
It has two storeys, of which only the top one appears over the roofline. There are two arched soundholes on each face, separated by a small pillar with a trapezoidal impost. The storey is bounded at top and bottom with a crude dentillate cornice, and there is a tiled pyramidal cap sitting on several courses of brick above the top cornice. A string course identical to the cornices runs around the campanile at the level of the arch springers.
There are interesting decorative features on the street side, best viewed through binoculars; above the soundhole is a cross in green stone, to the right of them is a T in red stone with a green rectangle at its bottom, and to the left is what looks like a capital I in green stone with a white stone block forming the upper horizontal stroke. Nobody seems to have commented on what these could mean.
There are two bells. The smaller one, with a diameter of 45 cm, has the year 1069 engraved on it. It is allegedly the only one in the city that survived the Sack by the Normans in 1084."
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