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The Basilica of Sant'Andrea in Vercelli is one of the few churches that show a quite definite relationship to the Gothic of the northern French type. It was founded in 1219 and consecrated as early as 1224. The adoption of Gothic building forms is connected with the fact that the church was run by canons from the Paris abbey of Saint-Victor.
The ground plan of the church indicates a style of building that is characteristically French, with a nave and two side aisles, transept, and staggered apses. From the outside, the church is built entirely of brick, which is typical of northern Italy, with a flat blind screen façade with dwarf galleries and flanked by twin towers rising from a rectangular ground plan. All these features had been known in Italy for over a century.
The photo shows the nave.
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