History

The Parish Church of St. Lawrence was founded in the 15th century. Initially, there was a wooden church there, built around 1521. It was demolished around 1907. It was replaced with the present-day brick church, erected between 1908 and 1910 according to a design created by Jarosław Wojciechowski.

The wooden cemetery chapel was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The wooden pointed-arch portal had been salvaged from the former wooden church. The portal had been in the passage area between the chancel and the sacristy.

Description

The chapel is situated on the axis of the main entrance to the cemetery, at its highest point in the west-east direction. The wooden structure was built from notched logs piled one on top of the other. It follows a floor plan of a rectangle, with the altar part terminated on three sides. Weatherboarded with vertical planks with vertical supports. It is a single-space structure. In the side walls, there are two rectangular window openings, each divided into six sections.

The front elevation is single axial, symmetrically covered with horizontal boards up to the level of the eaves. On the ground level, the entrance opening is topped with a pointed arch embellished with a zoomorphic tracery pattern. The whole is framed by a rectangular surround from wooden planks. The corners of the façade are accentuated by two columns set against the wall, high enough to reach the protruding eaves, above which the façade is crowned with a full triangular gable weatherboarded with vertically arranged planks. Over it, there is a ridge turret, pierced with arcaded openings on four sides. The ridge turret is topped with a hexagonal pyramidal cupola surmounted with an openwork cross.

Inside, the chapel is covered with a wooden ceiling. The chapel has a gable roof with eaves and sheet metal cladding. At the point where the roof ridge is connected, there is a cross on a conical pedestal.

Property of the Parish of St. Lawrence. The chapel can be viewed from outside.

Compiled by Aleksandra Preczyńska, student of the University of Łódź, field of study: history of art 28 August 2019

Bibliography

• Record sheet of monuments of architecture and construction, compiled by U. Biernat, November 1983.