Sant'Andrea degli Scozzesi

00187 Roma

Sant'Andrea degli Scozzesi is a small - now deconsecrated - Church in Rome. She was Scottish National Church and Church of Scotland Theological Seminary. It was founded in the late 16th century, was in the 17th century its present form and is now owned by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombard.

Location and Naming

The church is located, hemmed in by neighboring buildings, in Rione Trevi Roman II about 50 meters south of the Piazza Barberini with the Triton Fountain known. Your patronage has the Scottish National Saint Andrew. Originally, it was also dedicated to the second Scottish saint Margareta. The nickname degli Scozzesi she has just from the Scottish origin of the pilgrims, priests and seminarians.

History and Architectural History

Already during the pontificate of Pope Gregory XIII. was planned to build a Scottish National Church, the funds for this were provided by none other than Mary Stuart, the plans were never implemented. Only under Clement VIII, the church was built in 1592 and still dedicated in the same year. Eben This Pope bought eight years later, in 1600, a lying next to the church building of a Florentine. In this building, both the Scots College were - as the founding date is December 5, 1600 called - how to set up a Hospital for Scottish pilgrims. Nevertheless, the intrinsic did not last long, already in 1615 the management of the College by Pope Paul V was entrusted to the Jesuits. Just before the mid-17th century the church was almost entirely rebuilt. From then on it was only the hl. Dedicated to Andrew. They played their most important role during the Roman exile of the Catholic Stuarts under James Francis Edward Stuart from 1717. During the French occupation of Italy from 1798 College and Church were abandoned, until 1820 the training company and the religious activities were resumed. As the Jesuits were lifted in 1773, the seminary and the church have since been led by Scottish Secular priests. A final design renovation the church received 1864 About 100 years later, in 1963, drew the -. Existing until today - Scottish seminar in new buildings at the Roman suburbs. The church and the monastery buildings were acquired by an Italian bank Cassa di Risparmio the former delle Provincie Lombard. Today it is one of its successor organization, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombard. Although she was defiled, it was not demolished, but restored in the opposite of the acquiring bank in the 1960s.

Facade

The facade is two-storied, triaxial and kept simple for a Roman Baroque facade. The basement is divided into the narrow side axes only from simple wall strips. The main feature is the portal to the blasted segmental arch pediment. The demolition includes a St. Andrew's cross as an indication of the church patron, and before that a monogram of Christ in an aureole. The spiral tape over it contains the inscription: ". Sancto ANDREAE APOSTOLO SCOTORVM patrono " The upstairs is a bit more elaborate, the wall is divided here by the window of stored Tuscan pilasters order. A simple, following the specifications of the upper floor angle bent triangular pediment includes the facade from vertical.

Affairs

The interior of the church is a single room, which is covered by a barrel vault. The coffers of the ceiling is painted, the works date from the late 18th century.

The walls are again divided by pilasters of the Tuscan order, interspersed with round niches were inserted. The room is very sparingly decorated with grisaille and simple stucco.

The church has three altars, one each. Along the side walls and the high altar in the simple rectangular choir, which is divided to the nave by pillars The right altar contains a representation of St. Margaret in ecstasy from the 19th century, left a Madonna and Child with Saints from the 19th century the Dutchman Jacob Nicolay.

The high altar contains the altar painting a representation of the Martyrdom of St. Andrew. It is a work from the first half of the 17th century from the school of Jacques Courtois, called Il Borgognone.

Since the church was deconsecrated and is owned by the Fondazione, it is for the public usually not accessible. Only once a year on the 30 November - the memorial of St. Andreas - it is open, where the patron is commemorated despite the desecration.