In
the course of the restoration of 1950, followed to the strafing,
the church has been undressed of all its baroque ornaments
that hided the original structure. The original medieval aspect,
in fact, had been transformed in 1730 in the course of the
works commissioned by the Carmelite father Cornacchioli who
equipped the building of altars and ornaments of baroque art,
covered the roof with wood ceiling and inserted three altars
on each side.
Central aisle
The
Bell tower, of square base, is composed from a base and
three shelves. The base and the first shelf are going
back to the XII century; while the two overhanging shelves,
in which the bell cell is located, are of the XIV century.
The church is constituted from three aisles
supported from two series of nine columns with Ionic capital,
of which twelve are original built in onion marble and
six are rebuilt.
The columns are connected to some archs that support the walls
with windows with one light on which the roof cover is located.
In the center of nave there is a marble floor in cosmatesca
work. At the end of the three aisles there is the apse. The
church was decorated with frescoes on the walls, in the apsidal
zones and in crypt below
below (we have only documentation about these frescoes). They
represent an extremely important work that testimonies the
evolution of the Latium painting in the XIII century and the
relationships with Rome. On the walls there are two sacred
frescos, the only original of the XII century: a scene of
the Crocifissione
and a scene of the Virgin with the Child and at the sides
St.Peter and St.Paul .
In this church, until 1641, was located the wooden group representing
the Deposition of Christ (a valuable work of the Romanesque
sculpture of the XII-XIII century) before that it was carried
in the Cathedral of S.Lorenzo.
