Church of Santa Vittoria, Tissi

The church of Santa Vittoria is a religious building located in Tissi, a town in the historical region of Sassarese, northwestern Sardinia. Consecrated to Catholic worship, it is part of the archdiocese of Sassari. The church is located at the eastern end of Via Roma, a short distance from the parish church of Sant'Anastasia.

Originally the building had a longitudinal single-room layout, modest in size but canonical for the small-scale churches dotting the Island, with a truss roof and semicircular apse.

It was rebuilt in the 17th century, and the ashlars of the pre-existing Romanesque building were reused to build external buttresses: two side chapels were also added in the chancel, which was quadrangular, and it was covered with a barrel vault traversed by sub-arches. The ribbed bell tower is also ascribed to this period.

Of the Romanesque church only the façade is preserved, built with sharp-cut limestone blocks that make regular, sometimes non-uniform rows. It appears devoid of corner pilasters: in the corners it turns up a simple molded cornice on which rests the first of the thin double-arched arches: there are nine of them and they realize a horizontal arching that separates the part above, which is smooth and has no finial. One of the small arches is decorated with engraved geometric motifs; in the corbels, below with spindle frieze, are carved human protomes, bucrania, water leaf and ram protome.

The portal is architraved with a semicircular lunette: trachyte ashlars alternating with limestone are discernible in the arch, in two-tone.

For comparisons on a stylistic basis it could be ascribed to the mid-12th century. It was the seat of Pievania, with jurisdiction over several churches in vanished centers pertaining to the present territory of Ossi.