Chiesa di San Rocco o Madonna del Carmine

Scanno's church of San Rocco, also associated with the Madonna del Carmine, brings together the history of two earlier places of worship. Its layered facade and devotional furnishings reflect the town's confraternal traditions.

Why it matters

San Rocco and the church of the Santissimo Sacramento were once distinct buildings. Their union, probably in the later seventeenth century, created a shared religious space subsequently associated with the Carmine confraternity, formally recognised in 1784.

What to notice

The facade rises through three levels divided by cornices. Its stone lower section preserves the form of an earlier portico, with plastered surfaces above. A broken pediment and an oval Marian image mark the entrance. Inside, a single hall with a lunetted barrel vault leads to the raised presbytery and semicircular apse. A seventeenth-century wooden half-bust of the Madonna and Child belongs to the church's devotional heritage.

Context and history

The two churches were still recorded separately in 1676. Earlier religious functions included a baptismal font later transferred to the parish church. Changes continued into the twentieth century, when the old bell tower was demolished in 1909 during road works and replaced.