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Church · Bagnoli Irpino (AV)

Mother Church of Santa Maria Assunta

  • Visit: about 20 min
  • 660 m
Mother Church of Santa Maria Assunta
Photo: Lukewill · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized

The collegiate church of Bagnoli Irpino, famous for its splendid 17th-century walnut choir stalls, a national monument since 1912.

The mother church of Bagnoli Irpino, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, has very ancient origins, perhaps linked to the arrival of the Lombards. After the fire of 1651 it was rebuilt with a curious reversal: the length of the old building became the width of the new one. Today it has a Latin-cross plan and three naves.Its real treasure is the wooden choir, declared a national monument in 1912: nineteen walnut stalls carved between 1651 and 1657 with scenes from the Old and New Testaments, the work of masters such as Scipione Infante and Iacopo Bonavita. We suggest looking closely at each panel. We also love the walnut baptismal font and the wooden Dead Christ by Domenico Venuta, an 18th-century sculptor.

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