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It is a charta donationis from Bishop Guido de Guisis dated June 5, 1347 that mentions this church as noviter erecta (newly or in a new way?), and therefore it could be a reconstruction of a previous building. 

Completely attached to the north gate tower of the ancient fortified village, with a single rectangular hall in exposed bricks, wooden truss roof, with a sloping tile roof; it has the main door asymmetrical to the rest of the front facade, with an eccentric rose window above the door. On the southern wall, there was once an attached building: first used as a confraternity, then it became a school.

On the right side of the facade, there was a trace of a painting: probably a Saint Christopher.

The apse has a marble altar with an 18th-century altarpiece and on the southern side a lunette with the fragment of a fresco depicting the Madonna enthroned between a saint(?) and Saint James the Greater(?) from the second half of the 14th century (anonymous fresco artist, influence of the style of Vitale da Bologna, probable craftsmen of the neo-Giotto painter Altichiero da Verona). A visit by Bishop Sanudo in 1625 noted the presence of two altars: one dedicated to Saint Jerome, the other to Saint Michael.

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