Late Baroque church architecture, with elements of Classicism. Erected in the boundary area between Silesia and Wielkopolska regions, it combines the influences of late Baroque architecture of The Dientzenhofers and Pompeo Ferrari’s art.

History

The construction of the present church, a late Baroque church with classicist features, was funded by the von Hatzfeldt family, on the site of the earlier mentioned church in 1333. The church construction was completed in 1787. The furnishings of the church date back to approximately 1790.

Description

The church is located in the centre of the village. Made of brick, plastered. Single-aisle with a separate presbytery closed by a semicircular apse and a square tower erected on the nave axis. The southern wall of the chancel is adjoined by a rectangular sacristy. The nave on the outside is rectangular with rounded corners, on the inside it is set on the ellipsis plan, intermingling with the Greek cross plan. The nave is covered with a sail vault with lunettes, the chancel with a sail vault decorated with stuccowork. In the slanting walls of the nave, near the chancel, there are high, reaching vault cavities closed with a full arch. The walls of the nave are divided by multiple Tuscan pilasters, the chancel’s walls - by wall pillars.

The façades of the church were divided by the Tuscan pilasters. The single-axis tower façade, with a four-storey tower with rounded corners captured by pilasters, in the first two storeys, was made as a pseudoportico topped with a low triangular jerkin head. The side elevations of the three-axial nave with window openings closed with a full arch, in the middle axes were accentuated with pseudo avant-corps, crowned with triangular jerkin heads in the roof part. The tower is covered with a Baroque copper cupola with concave surfaces, with a cupola-shaped top, a gable roof over the chancel, and a gable roof over the chancel with a rounded slope over the apse.

The preserved furnishings of the church date back to late Baroque era, approximately 1790.  

Accessible historic structure.

Compiled by Maria Czyszczoń, The Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Wrocław, 26 November 2014.

Bibliography

• Katalog zabytków sztuki (Catalogue of the Art Monuments). The Wrocław Voivodeship Milicz, Żmigród, Twardogóra i okolice (Milicz, Zmigrod, Twardogóra and environs), Warsaw 1997, pp. 1-4.
• Jan Wrabec, Barokowe kościoły na Śląsku w XVIII w. (Baroque churches in Silesia in the 18th century), Wrocław-Warsaw-Cracow-Gdańsk-Łódź 1986, pp. 75-77.
• Zabytki sztuki w Polsce. Śląsk (Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia), Warsaw 2006, pp. 98-99.