Sant'Andrea degli Scozzesi

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Sant' Andrea degli Scozzesi (English: St Andrew of the Scots) is a 17th century former

History

The Scottish National Church had been

At the Suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, the church came under the administration of the Italian secular clergy and was closed during the French occupation of Rome in the late 18th century. In 1820, activity resumed at the college, but under the charge of Scottish secular clergy. During the absence of the Scots the church had become occupied by a Roman confraternity who refused to leave. The confraternity finally vacated the church building in September 1847 upon petition by the college to Pope Pius IX. The church was formally reopened following renovations on Saint Andrew's Day 1847 with High Mass being sung by John Henry Newman, a future saint.^[5]

The adjacent college was reconstructed in 1869 by

The church is aisleless with two side chapels and barrel-vaulted ceiling. On the right wall immediately inside the main entrance is a white marble monument to John Stewart, only son of Sir James Stewart, Bt., (called "Earl of Bute") by his second wife Christian Dundas. In the centre of the ceiling is a 16th-century fresco of St Andrew in Glory by Guillaume Courtois. The high altar was made in the 17th century and the altarpiece from the 18th century was by Scottish painter Gavin Hamilton, and depicted the Martyrdom of St Andrew.^[6] On both sides of the sanctuary there are hinged grates covering openings into tribunes where members of the exiled royal family would sit when they attended Mass. There was also an Enthroned Madonna with Sts Columba and Ninian by Alexander Maximilian Seitz. The interior of the church was left intact from 1962 until 2004 when the removable art works from the church were taken to the new Scots college on the Via Cassia.

See also

• Pontifical Scots College, Rome
• St Andrew's Church, Rome (Church of Scotland)

References