Propositura di Santa Croce, Greve in Chianti site features

The facade is neoclassical. It shows a portico of three arches surmounted by a cornice decorated with garlands, which acts as the base for the tympanum. The tympanum carries a rose window, and to the sides are two niches holding statues of San Francesco and San Giovanni Battista.

The bell tower was originally lower. It was raised by one cell in 1913, and that cell now holds four bells made by the Pistoiese founder Terzo Rafanelli. In the cell below there is also a sonello.

Inside, the right wall, about half way along the nave: a 14th-century tabernacle decorated with a fresco of the Madonna col Bambino attributed to the Maestro di Greve. It originally stood inside a tabernacle placed under the loggias of the square of Greve — the market square outside the door.

The chapel to the right of the high altar: the triptych of the Madonna and saints by Bicci di Lorenzo, which came from the church of San Silvestro a Convertoie.

The main chapel: a wooden Crucifix attributed to an anonymous Spanish sculptor of the early 15th century, originally in the pieve di San Cresci a Montefioralle.

The chapel to the left of the high altar: the ciborium in glazed terracotta attributed to Santi Buglioni. Along the left wall, a small 14th-century panel of the Annunciation attributed to Giovanni dal Ponte.

On the left-nave altars: at the first, a reproduction of the Madonna del Conforto, a glazed terracotta venerated at Arezzo from 1796 whose cult spread as far as the Greve area; at the last, a high relief in enamelled plaster of the Holy Family by Pio Fedi.

The Maestro di Greve fresco, and where it used to be

A 14th-century tabernacle with a Madonna col Bambino attributed to the Maestro di Greve. It stood under the loggias of the square outside — street art in the literal sense, brought indoors.

The Crucifix from Montefioralle

Wooden, attributed to an anonymous Spanish sculptor of the early 15th century, and originally in the pieve di San Cresci a Montefioralle. A Spanish carving in a Chianti parish church, by way of a Romanesque pieve on the hill above.

Bicci di Lorenzo's triptych

The Madonna and saints, in the chapel right of the high altar, brought from the church of San Silvestro a Convertoie.

The Santi Buglioni ciborium

In glazed terracotta, in the chapel left of the high altar — the della Robbia tradition at one remove.

Giovanni dal Ponte's Annunciation

A small 14th-century panel along the left wall.

The Madonna del Conforto

A reproduction of the glazed terracotta venerated at Arezzo from 1796, on the first left-nave altar — evidence that an Aretine cult reached the Chianti.

Pio Fedi's Holy Family

A high relief in enamelled plaster on the last altar of the left nave, by the sculptor better known for the Rape of Polyxena in Florence.

The 1913 bell cell

The tower was raised by one cell in 1913, which now carries four bells by Terzo Rafanelli of Pistoia, with a sonello in the cell below.