Chiesa di San Fedele

The building, with a rectangular plan, is formed by a single nave with a gabled roof, by a barrel-shaped semicircular apse. The church is built with stone masonry, internally plastered and exposed externally. The main entrance portal has a brick frame. Along the external walls of the nave there are four buttresses, two on each side, in stone and brick. From a door located on the right of the altar you enter the small sacristy. The nave is marked by two arched portals in brick and masonry, set into the perimeter walls and placed at a distance of about 4 meters. A small bell tower is present above the roof. Decorative elements From the collapse of the ancient church of S. Felice di Vallemare the painting of S. Felice was recovered. Now returned to the church of S. Fedele di Vallemare, although in a poor state of preservation. Plant The church has a rectangular plan with a single nave and a semicircular apse. Floors and floors The floors are made of terracotta. Structural installation Building built with load-bearing stone masonry, pitched roof. Foundations Stone foundations. Consolidated in the course of post-earthquake restructuring 1997, with reinforced concrete sub-foundations, not in the front part of the building's elevation. Covers The roof slab is a hut, the structure is in brick. Roof tiles in tiles. Historical News 1968 - 1973 (whole building well) The present church stands not far from the original church of Vallemare, which was dedicated to Saint Felice and erected by the Camaldolese monks in the 13th century. We have news of the original church, then destroyed by a landslide, until 1713 (pastoral visit by Msgr. Carlo Giacinto Lascaris). The current church, dedicated to S.Fedele da Sigmaringa, is blessed on May 6, 1973, with parish priest don Angelo Moscatelli. XXI (whole renovation well) The latest interventions, have widely involved the church from the point of view of structural consolidation following the 1997 seismic events. Liturgical adjustment altar - structural intervention (1990-2000) In the 1990s, the liturgical adaptation project involved the construction of an altar with a rustic stone and a squared marble table. Data are not available with reference to civil and ecclesiastical authorizations.