Architectural styles Romanesque architecture, Romanesque Revival architecture | ||
The Chiesa della Santissima Trinità is a Romanesque-revival architecture church located on Via Pretoria 109 in the town of Potenza, region of Basilicata, Italy. The church is now infamous for hiding during 17 years, the body of Elisa Claps, a young woman murdered by Danilo Restivo in 1993. The parish priest at the time had denied permission for the police to search the church despite it having been the last place the young woman was seen alive. The church was only searched after Restivo was arrested in England for the murder of Heather Barnett (murder victim).
Documents point to a church at the site since the 1178. Further refurbishments followed over the centuries; however this romanesque-style church was razed by an earthquake in 1857. Few traces of the prior church remain; it appears the reconstruction, begun in 1872 diverged in layout and structure, changing the church from a structure with three naves to a single nave church. The interior decoration of the church was pursued mainly in the 1930s, with frescoes by Mario Prayer.
The 2016 entry in the comune site on the church makes no mention of the events of the Claps murder.