The Pieve di Compiano stands next to the castle of the homonymous village, where the Taro river stretches in the open, flat valley at the foot of the ancient village.
The church rises, inside the inhabited area, preceded by a wide churchyard, with east-west orientation. The facade is in Baroque style, rectangular, crowned by a semicircular pediment, at the center of whose gable opens an orbicular window.
The facade, on two orders, is tripartite and closed by Doric pilasters, in stone. Above the pilasters in the first order runs an overhanging cornice. In the centre is the rectangular festive portal, with stone jambs and architrave on corbels.
On the sides are the lower weekday portals, with jambs and architrave on corbels, in stone. In the second order there is a large lunette window in the centre, with a moulded frame on corbels, in stone. On the fronts there is a building on the right and the rectory on the left.
At the back, the volume of the presbytery and the apse are lower than that of the nave, to which they lean against separated by a buttress at the sides. The semicircular apse is pierced in the lower part by two rectangular windows, in the upper part by three square windows. The bell tower is leaning against the presbytery on the left side.
The bell tower stands against the presbytery on the left side. It has a square plan and ends with a cell, with corner pilasters, open on all four sides by round single lancet windows. The cell is surmounted by a circular drum, punctuated by Doric twin pilasters, open on four sides by cruciform single lancet windows and covered with a concrete dome.
The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
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