Pieve di Santo Stefano (San Casciano in Val di Pesa)

The Pieve di Santo Stefano It is located in the municipality of San Casciano in Val di Pesa.

The Pieve di Santo Stefano on site Campus Paoli , located on a hill between the valleys of the Greve and the weigh, it appears in an act of sale of goods between the deacon Stefano and the abbey of Passignano. The document is dated 27 March 903 ^[first] . The interest of the abbey of Passignano was constant as various documents are proven dating back to the 10th and 11th centuries. The Church was a direct possession of the Florentine bishops who had a feudal lordship here.

Despite the remarkable wealth (it paid 50 lire per year for the tenth), the parish church had no autonomy, while the Pievano had the function of collecting the gabelle. The bishop had the right to appoint both the Pievano and the canons (a situation that did not occur in other parish priests).
In 1260 the people of the Pieve committed himself to paying a tax of 8 Stoia of wheat for the maintenance of the Florentine army. From the lists of decime it is noted that the territory subjected to the parish was made up of 17 peoples and geographically embraced a large territory located between Petroio (now the Municipality of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa), Liglio, Bibbione and Monte Macerata (in the municipality of San Casciano) .

In 1299 the chapter of the Canons rebelled against the bishop and independently appointed his head in the person of Talano della Tosa. For retaliation the bishop, The only master of the patron , he excommunicated Della Tosa.

In confirmation of the importance assumed by the Pieve on the territory, on various occasions its pievani were recipients of papal bubbles, as happened in 1228, and in other cases they were chosen for important tasks. Teglaro in 1276 was appointed subcollector for the diocese of Fiesole, Ruggeri in 1282 was appointed canon of the Florentine cathedral; In 1301 Stefano was appointed canon of the cathedral and vicar of the bishop of Fiesole, and finally Cerretano de ‘Cerretani in 1365 was appointed auditor of the Sacred Apostolic Palace and Bishop of Cosenza.

The Pieve also had Giulio de ‘Medici, the one who would become Pope Clement VII among his pievani.

In 1751 the company’s oratory was built. These works remained testimony from a plaque placed on the internal facade where it is remembered that Pievano Ludovico Leoni in 1760 gave the church a new guise as the building presented itself in a manner the old at the wrong time of an obsolete .

In 1784 the portico was added to the facade. Following the damage suffered in the 1895 earthquake, the church was restored again. In 1898 the building of the rectory was reconstructed while in 1903 the church was stuck. Other restorations were held in the 1980s.

The church was originally structured as a three -nave basilica covered in roof and was equipped with three semicircular apse.

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The original facade is hidden by a porch. It is characterized by pilasters that end up in a pronounced crowning of the cusp, with five blind arches resting on concave shelves. In correspondence of the side naves there are two hundreds of wallets (buffered) with a strip rings surmounted by simple eyes, a situation that is also found in the parish churches of Sant’Appiano and San Pietro in Bossolo.

On the sides of the church, to which the other buildings of the complex support, the single lamps of the claristori were opened which were later replaced by rectangular windows.

The grandstand was deprived of the central apse which was replaced with a rectilinear scarsella. The small right apse is still present, which still has the original stone cover and in which a double stromb monophous is opened. On the left apse stands the bell tower consisting of drafts arranged in filatetto and crowned by a merging performed in the nineteenth century.

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The interior was raised and redefined in the eighteenth century in Baroque style. It still presents the original space organization consisting of three naves of six spans each divided by rectangular pillars.

In an altar located in the right nave there is a table attributed to Giuliano Bugiardini (but perhaps to be reported to Francebigio) depicting the Madonna and Child and Saints . At the highest altar there is a Crucifix sixteenth -century and a pillar is set a fifteenth -century Florentine table depicting Madonna and Child and San Giovannino .

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