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The parish church complex of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle - Zabytek.pl

The parish church complex of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle


church Sandomierz

Address
Sandomierz

Location
woj. świętokrzyskie, pow. sandomierski, gm. Sandomierz

preserved inscription certifying the church’s consecration.The interior as a whole has preserved a unique, uniform spatial and artistic expression, mainly due to the dominant furnishings with rich early Baroque auricle and cartilage woodcarving.

The stuccowork of the chancel is the richest example of the Sandomierz variety of vault decorations.  

History

The parish church of the Conversion of St. Paul was originally founded as a wooden church by Bishop Iwan Odrowąż around 1226 in connection with the transfer of the parish from the church of St. James, which was handed over to the Dominicans. The present church was built after 1426 and before 1434, thanks to the efforts of an outstanding lawyer, canon and Sandomierz official, also the parson of Świętopaweł, Fr. Grzegorz. It was enlarged and rebuilt shortly after the fire at the end of 1637 by the personal effort of the official and inspector of the collegiate estate, the then parish priest Szymon Dzierżęga. After the liquidation of the rectory in 1650 and poor management by the commanding preachers of the collegiate church, and the desecration by Rákóczi’s Cossacks, it was once again solemnly consecrated in 1660 by the suffragan bishop of Krakow, Fr. Mikołaj Oborski. After the restoration of the parish in 1688, thanks to the efforts of the canon Rafał Rościcki, the work of rebuilding the parish and the church was undertaken by Fr Jakub Orzechowski, from 1705 the parish priest of Świętopaweł. He thoroughly renovated the church and initiated the establishment of the Brotherhood of St. Barbara by the church, crowned by a solemn inauguration in 1719, to help the faithful lead a good Christian life and to deserve a dignified and peaceful death. He built and equipped the chapel of St. Barbara. His successor, Fr. Marcin Jasiński, surrounded the church with a wall and built a belfry in 1745. At the time of service of the parish priest Józef Lisikiewicz, a Sandomierz canon, the church suffered greatly as a result of warfare during the campaign in June 1809 and again in 1914, and the bullets and case shots left in the walls of the church are a reminder of the bloody fights with the enemy.

Description

Erected on one of the Sandomierz hills to the west of the Old Town, the Gothic church is a single-nave church with a chancel closed on three sides, made of brick, extended after a fire in the 17th century to the west, with the Chapel of St. Barbara added around 1718 to the south. The interior is covered with barrel vaults with lunettes covered with stucco decoration, partly polychrome and gilded. In the chancel a richer arrangement was used, supplemented by additional elements in the form of auricular style cartouches, fruit garlands and winged heads with scarves. The interior is dominated by early Baroque furnishings from around the middle of the 17th century, with a rich auricle and cartilage woodcarving decoration, completed in the first half of the 18th century. The main altar comes from around mid-17th century, two-storey with paintings of the Conversion and Beheading of St. Paul. The early Baroque choir stalls on both sides of the chancel were built around the middle of the 17th century, with rich partitions and decoration, next Baroque retables from around 1715, in the form of wide, sculpted frames, with paintings presenting the life of St. Paul. Two side altars at the rood from around the mid-18th century with the paintings of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Child, St. John the Baptist and angels and St. Joseph. At the northern wall there is a side altar of St. Barbara, next to it a baptismal font with a sculpture of Christ’s baptism on the cover. The pulpit and the music choir are early Baroque from around the mid-17th century. Next to the church there is a belfry, built in 1739-45, founded by Fr Marian Jasiński, the local parish priest.

The church is open to visitors, the interior may be explored upon the approval of the parish priest.

Jerzy Zub, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Kielce, 11.12.2014.

Bibliography

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Category: church

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_26_ZE.24291, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_26_ZE.28