Erected in the years 1905-1910, it is a valuable example of church architecture with historical features in this region.

History

The initial church was founded in 1511 by the kind Sigismund I, fitted in 1513 by Sylwester Lasota Ożarowski. The construction of the wooden church was completed in 1516. The feature was destroyed in the mid 18th century, soon to be replaced by another wooden church founded by Antoni Miączyński. This church was damaged during the fire of the town of 1878. The restoration of the Roman-Catholic parish took place in 1905. The construction of a new, existing church took place in the years 1905-1909.

Description

The church complex is located in the central part of the town, south-west of the Market Square, on the southern side of Siedlecka Street. The church building occupies the central part of the plot and faces the south-west with the sanctuary part and the north-east with the front façade. The church area is surrounded by a wall with two chapels on the corners, at Siedlecka Street. The church is made of brick and stone, rests on the lime mortar and is plastered in the interior. The roof structure is made of wood. The roof is covered with galvanised sheet. The three-nave building was erected on a rectangular floor plan, with a narrower presbytery terminating in a semi-hexagon. Two rectangular sacristies adjoin the side walls of the presbytery. A rectangular porch with two square towers on the sides abuts on the nave corpus from the south-east. The church naves have the same height; they are covered with a gable roof, obstructed by the gable from the north-east and with two four-storey towers topped with pointed-arch cupolas. The chancel is covered with a separate gable roof, terminating in three slopes. The sacristies are slightly lower than a chancel, covered with gable roofs and with roof ridges perpendicular to the church axis. Walls on a low, stone plinth, crowned with a profiled cornice and partitioned by a string course. Buttressed. The front façade has two storeys, one axis and is crowned with a triangular gable accentuated by two single-axis and four-storey towers. A pointed-arch portal on the axis, accentuated by piers, crowned with a triangular gable with a crucifix. A rectangular door opening terminating in two columns, with profiled, stepped glyphs on door frames and archivolts. A rose window is located above the tympanum. The front façade’s gable is stepped, decorated with a blind wimperg, with a figure of Madonna in the crest. Towers with identical window openings in the side and front walls: rectangular windows on the first storey, pointed-arch windows on the second, paired arched windows on the third and pointed-arch windows on the fourth. Side walls of the nave corpus partitioned by buttresses into four bays, with four large pointed-arch windows on their axes. In the north-western front wall of the ground floor of the sacristy there is a pointed-arch portal with a door, while in the south-eastern wall, there is a triforium. Each second storey includes two pointed-arch windows. Front walls of the sacristy are crowned with stepped gables. The church has three-nave, aisleless interiors, partitioned by piers into four bays. The naves are topped with a groin vault on strips. A presbytery is narrower and lower, set width-wise along the central nave, connected with naves through a broad archway in the chancel arch wall, covered with a cross-rib vaulting. Single-bay sacristies covered with flat ceilings. Beyond them, there are galleries, opening towards the interior of the chancel by triforia.

The structure is unavailable to visitors, it can be viewed only from across the fence.

Compiled by Katarzyna Kosior, Regional Branch of the National Heritage Board of Poland in Warsaw, 24-10-2014.

Bibliography

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