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Parish Church of the Holy Cross - Zabytek.pl

Parish Church of the Holy Cross


church 1868-1869 Kozienice

Address
Kozienice, Warszawska 2

Location
woj. mazowieckie, pow. kozienicki, gm. Kozienice - miasto

The feature represents an example of pseudo-basilica ecclesiastical architecture from the second half of the 19th century.

It is a proof of continuity of ecclesiastical buildings assigned to the place - the church is the fifth temple built at the town’s main crossroads.

History

The first wooden church in Kozienice was built according to the tradition, owing to the donation by king Władysław Jagiełło in 1394. After destruction of the church, in 1554 king Sigismund II replaced it with a new, larger one, also made of wood. In 1657, during the Deluge, the church was plundered and burned down. The third temple, built by Rev. Maciej Dąbrowski in 1667, survived nearly 100 years. The fourth wooden church was funded by the wife of King Sigismund III, Maria Józefa, Queen of Poland. A spacious and impressive building erected in 1754 was consecrated in 1763 by the Bishop of Kiev, Józef Andrzej Załuski. That temple was relocated to a direct neighbourhood of the royal residence in Kozienice. It was situated approximately in the place where a historic graveyard of the Den family is located now - in the municipal park.

The current, brick church, was erected in the years 1868-1869 during the vicarage of Rev. Józef Khaun, owing to financial support of General Włodzimierz Den. A cornerstone was laid on 14 June 1868 and the temple was consecrated by the Bishop of Sandomierz, Rev. Michał Józef Juszyński on 24 October 1869.

Description

The church is situated in the very centre of Kozienice, at the main intersection of: Warszawska, Lubelska, Radomska and Kochanowskiego streets, not far from the bus station. It was built on a plot covered by trees, fenced by iron spans with brick, plastered posts. At the north, the church area adjoins a playing field.

The church is not oriented towards the east, is made of brick, plastered on both sides and follows the principles of the pseudo-basilica style. A batten vault is obscured by a flat ceiling filled with wooden coffers. The floor is covered with terracotta laid in 1928. The roof is wooden with rafters, covered with sheet metal, resting on the top of the wall. The rafters were reinforced with a queen post. The roof planes are of a gable type, the chancel roof is three-sloped, while the sacristies feature shed roofs. Window and door joinery in the entire church is wooden. The external stairs are covered with terracotta.

The church was erected on a rectangular floor plan, has three naves, a chancel that is wider than the main nave, with a semi-hexagonal termination as well as two sacristies with separate entrances from the outside. The main entrance leads through the front porch, above which a choir gallery and a church tower are situated. Two additional side entrances are found on both sides of the façade. A tall, one-storey body of the building terminates in a two-storey tower. The building’s front façade features a dominating middle tower, the main entrance and side naves partitioned by simplified pilasters. A bell tower was partitioned along two-thirds of its height by an inter-storey cornice. The main entrance to the church leads through two-wing doors terminating in a full arch with a decorative rusticated cornice. The tower is crowned with a triangular tympanum over which rises a bell tower, clad in sheet metal. It is pierced on each side by bell openings, obscured by horizontal, metal shutters and features a spire roof crowned with a crucifix. Side façades are symmetrically partitioned by pilasters with window openings terminating in a straight arch, surrounded by cornices hosting a door leading to the bell tower. The south façade is symmetrical to the door leading to the sacristy, windows flanking the chancel and a blind in which a crucifix and a Pieta sculpture are located.

The most beautiful elements of the temple interior include Rococo altars - the main one and the side ones - symmetrically positioned in the side naves. The chancel also includes: on the right, above the entrance to the room for altar servers, a painting of the Holy Family of 1883 by Wojciech Gerson; on the opposite side, above the door to the sacristy, a painting from the second half of the 18th century, representing St John of Nepomuk, authored by Szymon Czechowicz, donated to the church by Jan Kanty Fontana. On the chancel arch wall two large oil paintings from the 18th century are hung: on the left, a painting with an image of the Holy Mother of Angels with Child in her arms; on the right, the Holy Mother of the Rosary with Child and kneeling figures of St Dominic and St Clare. The temple’s fixtures and fittings are supplemented with a polychromed pulpit made of wood. A marble baptismal font (donated in 1929) is located between the chancel and the side altar on the right.

The historic monument is available all year round (during masses) or following a prior phone arrangement made with the parish priest.

Author of the note Jerzy Szałygin, National Institute of Cultural Heritage, Regional Branch in Warsaw 28-12-2016

Bibliography

Category: church

Architecture: nieznana

Building material:  brick

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_14_BK.174690, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_14_BK.200607