Sant' Agostino (late 14th century)
The church was built on the site of a 12th century church that had been dedicated to Sant’ Andrea della Valle. The Augustines moved here in 1266 at the instigation of Bishop Orlando (1261 - 1303), who was a member of the new Order. Bequests were made for a new church in 1311, 1345 and 1347, but construction seems to have been delayed until the end of the century.
The new chuch was built with its apse above the city wall, overhanging the steep cliff at the edge of the city. It was remodelled early in the 18th century and reconsecrated in 1728.
The façade has a single portal. The fresco (15th century) of the Madonna and Child with SS Andrew and Augustine in a niche to the right is by a follower of Antoniazzo Romano.
Unfortunately, the church is usually closed.
Frescoes in the Apse
The frescoes (late 14th and early 15th centuries) on the walls of the apse were covered in plaster in the 18th century and only partly recovered in the restoration of 1991. The surviving scenes are obscured by the 18th century decoration.
A number of the them are attributed to the Maestro della Dormitio di Terni:
- [Location 1 ??]
Christ enthroned with angels, with the Virgin and SS Andrew on the left and SS John the Baptist and Augustine on the right. The Virgin is shown as the Madonna della Misercordia and the Madonna del Latte. Much of the figure of St Augustine has been lost.
- [Location 2 ??]
The Assumption of the Virgin and (below) figures of SS Margaret of Antioch and Giles. Only the lower part of the Assumption, in which angels raise the Virgin in a mandorla, survives.
- [Location 3 ??]
St Martin shares his cloak with a poor man and (below) a series of fragmentary heads of (from left to right): St
Augustus, St Antony Abbot and two figures that both seem to be of St
James. Little of this fresco of St Martin survives, except for the poor man’s feet and a magnificent horse’s head.
- [Location 4 ??]
Fragments of the heads of (from left to right): the Madonna della Misercordia; St Jerome; and larger fragments of two saints (a deacon and an Apostle).
There are two interesting and broadly contemporary fragments by other artists:
the Madonna and child with St Antony Abbot (who commends a kneeling donor) and a deacon saint [to the left in Location 1];and
St Ursula and companions [to the left in Location 2].
Cappella di San Sebastiano
This chapel [is at the start of the nave]. Its documented frescoes (1523-40), which are by Lorenzo and Bartolomeo Torresani, depict:
- the Redeemer (in the lunette on the back wall);
- the Doctors of the Church and the Evangelists (in the vaults); and
- the martyrdom of St Sebastian [where ??]; and
Other Works of Art in the Church
Madonna and Child with Saints (dated 1482) 
This important fresco by Pier Matteo d' Amelia
is in an aedicule on the counter-façade to the right of the main door.
It depicts the Madonna and Child with SS Lucy (with her eyes on a
plate) and Apollonia, with God the Father above. The attribution is
reasonably secure, since Pier Matteo is documented in Narni in 1482. SS Monica, Andrew, Augustine and Nicholas of Tolentino (1465-70)
This altarpiece on the 1st altar on the right is by a follower of Antoniazzo Romano. It depicts these Augustinian saints standing in pairs to either side of a large wooden cross. The predella depicts:
the martyrdom of St Andrew;
the flagellation and the road to Calvary in an incongruous architectural setting; and
the Mass of St Augustine.
Sacristy
Fresco fragment (ca. 1482)
This fragment of a fresco by Pier Matteo d' Amelia depicts St Sebastian and flagellants. An illustration can be found at www.provincia.terni.it.
Crucifixion (1500)
This fresco of the Crucifixion with the Virgin and SS Mary Magdalene and John the Evangelist is attributed to the Maestro della Tomba Cesi.
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