ABSTRACT
Wooden architraves are located above the four colonnades of the nave and the aisles and above the columns of the north and south corners. Prior to the present-day restorations, such architraves were mostly concealed by plaster or, in some cases, by wooden boards added in recent times. As evidenced by inspections, the wooden architraves are constituted by three Lebanon cedar wood beams set side by side and usually spanning over three consecutive columns. The state of decay worsened also in consequence of unsuitable interventions made in the past, like painting of capitals and wooden surfaces, some inappropriate superficial treatments and also in consequence of human negligence that produced visible anthropic damages. The inspection was extended to the entire architrave system, with special focus on the geometrical details of connections, inner and outer decay, wooden species and mechanical quality of wood.
