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San Lorenzo in Palatio ad Sancta Sanctorum
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San Biagio della Pagnotta
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1955
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1960
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==Exterior== === Layout and fabric === The church is a simple little building, on a rectangular plan. It stands closely parallel to the street, at a slight angle with the near right hand corner edging the street. The original priest's house is attached to the back, and the various and rather messy structures of the sports complex abut on the left hand side. The brick walls are now rendered in a cream colour, and stand on low stone plinths. Each side wall has two sets of windows, each in a single vertical rectangular frame in slight relief. The nave window set comprises a round-headed window with a square window above, but the sanctuary set has a round window instead of the square one. The roof is flat, and has a very low parapet on either side. This is above a molded cornice which bears a line of tiles. Attached to the top right hand corner of the sanctuary is a little tower campanile in bare brown brick, on a transverse rectangular plan and with a square sound-hole in each side at the top. There is no cap. === Façade === The church faces onto a piazza which is basically a wide place in the street but which contains a mature holm oak tree sheltering a water-supply fountain (not a decorative one) and a wooden cross on a plinth which looks like an ancient piece of stonework The façade has two pilasters in shallow relief at the corners, which have short extensions of the molded side cornices in lieu of capitals. The side parapets are fronted by a pair of vertical rectangular box plinths standing on these cornice fragments -rather alarmingly, these are functioning as plant-pots for two evergreen shrubs. The top of the façade in between these plinths is given by a pair simple up-curving cornices joined by a short horizontal section in the middle on which a wire cross finial stands. The single entrance has a molded stone door-case, rather eroded and perhaps from the original chapel that pre-dated the 18th century rebuilding. It is flanked by a pair of square windows with broad frames in relief, set low down. Above is a horizontal ovoid window, not elliptical but only having a vertical axis of symmetry. This contains very simple stained glass in the form of a cross. In between the lintel and window is a small marble dedication tablet reading ''Deiparae virgini dicatum, fidelium eleemosyinis aedificatum, anno MDCCXXX. ''("Dedicated to the God-bearing virgin, built with the donations of the faithful, 1703"). The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barberini_family Barberini] bees remind you of the family that was the patron, and a damaged heraldic shield of theirs is below the tablet.
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