Set the scene.
Żebbuġ was already a parish before 1436. The present church belongs to the seventeenth century.
Here’s the twist.
Enlargement followed on a design by Tumas Dingli. The parish later gained archipresbyteral status in 1829.
Why it still matters.
Put a medieval community and a seventeenth-century building on separate lines. That simple exercise prevents an easy mistake: assuming the parish’s earliest date is the age of every wall.
🧠 One to think about +
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