The Basilica of San Clemente in Rome was rebuilt with the sponsorship of Cardinal Anastasius from about 1099 to about 1120. The text does not name the architect of the rebuilt church, and Carlo Stefano Fontana designed the later facade under Pope Clement XI. The infobox gives groundbreaking in 1108 and completion in 1123, while the text says the church was built just before 1100.
The article describes Paleochristian and Romanesque styles, with Cosmatesque paving and 12th-century apse mosaics. It uses ancient marble or granite columns, gray-violet columns for the ciborium and gilded coffered ceilings with stucco. It is 148 feet (45 m) long and 82 feet (25 m) wide.
Irish Dominicans have owned the complex since 1667, and Fontana's facade was completed in 1719. During World War II, Jewish services were held there under Irish diplomatic protection. It is a minor basilica and Irish national church. The article gives no hours.
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