Chiesa campestre di Santa Maria Iscalas

Chiesa di Santa Maria Iscalas, Bonnanaro

Photo by Valeria Masili

Chiesa di Santa Maria Iscalas, Bonnanaro

Rural church of Santa Maria Iscalas on the outskirts of town.

The current-day church dates back to 1682; an inscription on the architrave of the side door explains that its construction was funded by the prioress of the Santa Croce confraternity, Bidora De Campus. This building replaced a previous one from 1605 which collapsed due to structural subsidence or crumbling; however, it is likely that the site was home to a previous church from the Medieval period.

The rural church has a single room, with wooden ceiling, and quadrangular barrel-vaulted apse. The inside has been entirely plastered, leaving only the ashlars of the rounded arches visible which separate the room into aisles. The external elevations, on the other hand, have been created using a mix of stones and supported by buttresses.

On the gabled facade with double coping and cornice decorated with geometric motifs and phytomorphics, the attractive entrance and a quadrangular light with rosette open out. The door is framed by double columns with capitals decorated with acanthus leaves, which enclose a partially legible engraving and hold up the perforated cornice; the gable con acroterion are framed on these.

 

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Bibliografia

Bonnanaro e il suo patrimonio culturale, Ghiani, 2004
T. Marras, Bonnanaro, Delfino editore, 2012
G. Piras, “Elementi di logudorese nelle epigrafi del S. Stefano di Oschiri e della S. Maria Iscalas di Bonnanaro”, in BTA 2012, pp. 1-26.

Informazioni utili

Ingresso: Visibile dall’esterno
Parcheggio: No
Sentiero segnalato: No
Bar: No
Accessibilità motoria: Parziale

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