Cappella San Giovanni Battista

This small chapel, the Cappella San Giovanni Battista, presents a deliberately restrained face to the world. Its principal front is designed as an attic storey, a clever architectural conceit that hides the roof ridge behind a classical cornice. The facade is otherwise plain: a simple portal flanked by symmetrically placed square windows, their stone architraves, sills, and jambs cut in unadorned blocks. Five stone steps lead up to the raised floor, set some 90 centimetres above the external ground level. Above the door, a stone plaque bearing an inscription is surmounted by a coat of arms, probably belonging to the Angeloni family, and then by a small circular oculus. To the right, tucked beneath the crowning cornice, an arched niche houses a tiny bell. The chapel stands within the curtilage of a rural farm building containing two dwellings, a private oratory for a local family, built to a humble, workmanlike dignity.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.