The Church of Santa Vittoria
The ancient church of Santa Vittoria is located in the historic center of Sarroch, in Piazza Repubblica, near the new parish church, which is accessed via a staircase from the same square. Both are titled to the Virgin and Martyr Victory.
HISTORY. The new parish church of Santa Vittoria was built
in the Seventies of the Twentieth Century near the
oldest. The ancient church of Santa
Vittoria has been documented since the first decades of the 18th century
century. A series of changes and capture
of the Sarroch Municipality in the second half of the twentieth century
changed the function, decreeing it
use as a Civic Museum. A few years ago it was
reconsecrated and brought back to its old use.
PLANT. The ancient parish church of Santa Vittoria presents a simple one longitudinal plant with three aisles, without apse. The new parish also has three aisles. Structures The ancient parish hall is divided by arches sixth on the pillars. The cover is wooden. There facade, built at the end of the eighteenth century, is marked in three parts by pilasters, among which the entrance door opens. Above the latter opens a rose window and two niches. The bell tower overlooking the facade dates back also at the end of the eighteenth century. The new parish church is a modern, demolished building important elements.
LITURGICAL FURNISHINGS. In the ancient parish church there is the altar
larger, made by 1744 in polychrome marbles.
By the middle of the eighteenth century the
beautiful paliotta with floral inlay decorations. At the beginning of the
In the 20th century a pulpit, marble, also supported
from a pillow and consists of a three-panel case
decorated with phytomorphic motifs and a bronze medallion
bearing the effigy of Santa Vittoria on the front.
Until the 1960s the church was guarded
in its interior a marble capitol of Roman age,
reworked in the first half of the twelfth century to act as
water reservoir, today in the new parish on the left
input.
The twentieth-century church also houses some silver
and some wooden statues from the ancient parish church.
THE AQUEDUCT WITH THE TETRAMORPH. The aqueduct of the ancient parish, today at the entrance
of the new, is derived from a marble cape of
Roman age, which came in the first half of the twelfth century
reworked with the tetramorph. It is supported by a portion
Roman columns and carved sculptures
the four symbols of the Evangelists: the man of Matthew, the
lion of Marco, the bull of Luke, the eagle of John. The
sculptor reveals technical-formal ways of Romanesque art.
(Source: "Chiese antiche e moderne lungo la via di Sant'Efisio", Comune di Sarroch, a cura di Roberto Coroneo)
To know more: L'acquasantiera romanica nella parrocchiale di Santa Vittoria
THE FESTIVAL. Every years, in the middle of september, the community of Sarroch celebrate their own patron with civil and religious rites in wich there is a rich schedule of cultural events.
PLANT. The ancient parish church of Santa Vittoria presents a simple one longitudinal plant with three aisles, without apse. The new parish also has three aisles. Structures The ancient parish hall is divided by arches sixth on the pillars. The cover is wooden. There facade, built at the end of the eighteenth century, is marked in three parts by pilasters, among which the entrance door opens. Above the latter opens a rose window and two niches. The bell tower overlooking the facade dates back also at the end of the eighteenth century. The new parish church is a modern, demolished building important elements.
(Source: "Chiese antiche e moderne lungo la via di Sant'Efisio", Comune di Sarroch, a cura di Roberto Coroneo)
To know more: L'acquasantiera romanica nella parrocchiale di Santa Vittoria
THE FESTIVAL. Every years, in the middle of september, the community of Sarroch celebrate their own patron with civil and religious rites in wich there is a rich schedule of cultural events.
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