San Francesco, Orvieto

Chiesa di San Francesco is a late-Romanesque- early Gothic architecture, Roman Catholic church located on Via Ippolito Scalza in the southern ridge of the historic center of Orvieto, Umbria, Italy.

It was consecrated as Santi Francesco e Ambrogio in memory of Saint Francis and the Blessed Ambrose of Massa Maritima (died in 1240).

[3] The building is typical of Franciscan churches of the period with a single nave, a quadrangular apse and a trussed wooden roof.

Its high rose windows have been replaced but the sculpted marble portal, with multiple pilasters and ogival arch, survives intact.

[3] The interior originally took the form of a hall church but was redesigned in 1773 when colonnades were added to provide for side chapels.