Santi Felicita e Figli Martiri

<h3 data-rte-spaces-before="1" data-rte-spaces-after="1"> Layout and fabric </h3>
<p data-rte-fromparser="true">The layout is complicated, and is best described together with notes on the fabric.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">The edifice has two storeys, a ground-floor crypt with red brick walls and the church proper. The crypt storey has a rectangular plan, and also forms the first storey of a flat-roofed multi-storey block in red brick to the left of the church. The church itself, and the higher storeys of this block, stand on a flat terrace formed from the roof of the crypt.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">The ancillary block has the plan of a thin trapezoid, widening towards the back. It is separated from the church by a passageway, which has a pergola roofed in glass towards the far end. This allows covered access from the presbytery to the sacristy.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">The church itself has a complicated plan. Its core in the plan is a half-open fan which has an angle of ninety degrees divided into five sectors of fifteen degrees each, the right angle being at the back of the altar and occupied by a tall and prominent campanile. The central three sectors extend further forward than the two side ones, leaving the nave side walls of the church angled. In front is a transverse rectangular portico, and the two outer long sectors join onto this by means of short longitudinal walls.  
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">The back wall of the church, either side of the campanile, is transverse and turns through two right-angled far corners to intersect the two short outermost fan sectors. Here there are two side entrances. This arrangement gives the church a transept flanking the sanctuary.  
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Behind the far wall are a sacristy to the left, and a ferial chapel to the right.  
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">The frame of the edifice is in reinforced concrete, and the facing is either in high-quality red brick or in large white panel tiles. The latter are used to provide a balustrade for the terrace, and also clad the ends of the transept as well as the exterior radial walls of the fan. The exterior end walls of the fan sectors, the walls joining the fan to the entrance portico and the walls of the ferial chapel and sacristy are in brick. The sacristy is provided with eaves in white panels, but the chapel is not.
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