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Chiesa di San Martino, Novella

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Churches and sanctuaries · Novella · Val di Non

Chiesa di San Martino

The bell tower was built in 1694; the bell arrived in 1762.

Chiesa di San Martino
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Devotion to San Martino is very old, and the dedication has suggested that the church was built earlier; the first mention, however, is found only in 1537, in the records of a pastoral visit by the cardinal and prince-bishop of Trento Bernardo Clesio.

The altar of the titular saint was consecrated in 1649 by Jesse Perchoffer, suffragan bishop of Bressanone, who gave instructions to restore the wall decorations: those decorations were lost all the same. The small bell gable was built on the front of the building in 1694, but the bell to be placed there was made only in 1762, by the bell founder Pietro Saletti: almost seventy years of waiting.

The church stands in an elevated and solitary spot. The simple, double-pitched façade has in front of it a large, massive porch across its whole width; in the centre the portal is set in a broad frame which continues upwards into the structure of the bell gable. Inside, the nave is single and there is no separation between the hall and the presbytery.

First mention
1537
Bell gable
1694
Bell
1762, by Pietro Saletti
Dedicated to
Martin of Tours

Trails that pass through here

From the register of alpine trails of the Autonomous Province of Trento. © SAT.

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