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Chapel of St. Barbara and Roch, currently a filial church of St. Roch. - Zabytek.pl

Chapel of St. Barbara and Roch, currently a filial church of St. Roch.


chapel Mroczków

Address
Mroczków

Location
woj. świętokrzyskie, pow. skarżyski, gm. Bliżyn

The Chapel of St.Roch in Mroczków is distinguished by a unique functional programme from among early modern wooden sacred buildings from the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship and a characteristic floor plan.

History

According to tradition, this building was built in the first half of the 17th century as a votive offering of the local people for saving them from “bad air” (which at that time was believed to spread plague) in the 1620s-30s. However, this claim is not confirmed by the sources from that time; although it rationally explains the circumstances of the choice of the patron for the building, as St. Roch was then considered an effective patron protecting from pestilence. In the archives, the chapel in Mroczków is only mentioned during the visitation of the deanery of Mroczków in 1759; according to the reference, the chapel was seriously damaged at that time. Another source reference comes from the 1762 inventory - it includes information about a painting of St. Roch inside the building and the lack of adequate financial means (which may confirm the above information that it was founded by residents of the village). Subsequent mentions describing the chapel in Mroczków come from the village inventory made in 1826. The descriptions contained therein are consistent with the appearance of the building preserved to this day. Unfortunately, they do not allow to clearly determine the chronology of the monument; therefore, the question whether the said inspection concerns the renovated building mentioned in 1759 or the building erected in the 4th quarter of the 18th century - early 19th century, remains open. It is also worth noting that this source contains information about the second patron of the building - St. Barbara (her image was worshipped by the local miners and metallurgists) and about an indulgence fair of St. Roch, which was attended by a large number of faithful from Odrowąż, as recalled by Fr Jan Wiśniewski. In 1856, the owners and employees of the brickyard in the nearby village of Sołtyków founded the main altar. Probably three years later, some construction work was carried out in the chapel, which is suggested by the date (1859) found in the chancel during works carried out in 2015-2016. At the end of the 1880s, the reredos was exchanged for a new, neo-Baroque one (preserved to this day), the altar was consecrated in 1890 by the Bishop of Sandomierz Antoni Franciszek Sotkiewicz. In 1947, the chapel was entered into the register of historic monuments of the Łódź Voivodeship, and in 1957, St. Roch’s Parish was established there. In connection with the new function, between 1958 and 1960, it was extended; a porch and a small vestibule were added to it from the west (transformed into a nave) and from the south-east the Chapel of St. Tadeusz with a glass-panelled porch. In the 1980s, it was already too small for the faithful, and between 1986 and 1999 a new church was built in its vicinity, to which some of the historic furnishing was moved. The parishioners and the parish priest, even though they have not used the former chapel since 2007, are successively subjecting it to thorough construction and conservation work, e.g. as a result of the work two modern vestibules were demolished, the roof and the formwork were replaced.

Description

The church of St. Roch is located in the northern part of the village, on the road to Chlewiska, in the vicinity of a complex of primary school buildings. There is a wooden belfry from 1958-1960 on the church grounds. The church is a wooden building, oriented, with an octagonal, elongated body (the former nave) with an unseparated chancel, covered symmetrically on the east by two square annexes (the sacristy in the north and the Chapel of St. Tadeusz in the south). From the west, on the axis, it has a rectangular nave (extended from the former porch) and a square low vestibule. It was erected from larch wood, in a log structure, on a stone foundation. The roof truss of the church body features a purlin roof truss structure, with rafters extended with chantlates. The roofs of the building are covered with shingles; in the middle of the body covering there is a quadrangular steeple with walls pierced with arcades and a canopy with a cross covered with sheet metal. The external church façades are covered with vertically-positioned weatherboards. The walls of the body are covered with vertical supports in the corners and crowned with prominent profiled cornices. The interior of the temple is modest, covered with wooden ceilings; its walls are covered to half of their height with fibreboards. The furnishing of the building, which consists of artefacts from the second half of the 19th century-20th century, is also modest, including neo-Baroque elements: the main altar from around 1890, a musical choir and a pulpit-confessional.

The monument is open to visitors. The interiors may be explored upon prior arrangement with the parish priest.

Łukasz Piotr Młynarski, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Kielce, 19.04.2017.

Bibliography

  • Adamczyk A., Modras J., Polanowski L., Prace przy zabytkach architektury sakralnej i zabudowie miejskiej, [in:] Prace konserwatorskie w woj. świętokrzyskim w latach 2001-2012, ed. J. Cedro, Kielce 2014, pp. 23-86.
  • Bastrzykowski A., Zabytki kościelne budownictwa drewnianego w diecezji sandomierskiej, Krakow, 1930.
  • Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce, vol. III: Województwo kieleckie, ed. J. Z. Łoziński, B. Wolff, vol. 4: Powiat kielecki, prepared by T. Przypkowski et al., Warsaw.
  • Macherzyński W., Mroczków w świetle lustracji z 1826 r., “Notatnik Bliżyński, vol. III, Bliżyn 1988, pp. 75-81.
  • Mirowski R., Drewniane kościoły i dzwonnice Ziemi Świętokrzyskiej, Kielce 2002.
  • Solarz P., Parafia świętego Rocha w Mroczkowie, Mroczków 2009.
  • Wiśniewski J., Dekanat konecki, Radom 1907.

     

Objects data updated by Andrzej Kwasik.

Category: chapel

Architecture: nieznana

Building material:  wood

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_26_BK.226638, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_26_BK.7671