Church of Ss. Peter and Paul / Kostel Sv. Petra a Pavla - Porící nad Sázavou
N 49° 50.181 E 014° 40.512
33U E 476643 N 5520486
Small Romanesque Church of Ss. Peter and Paul (Kostel Sv. Petra a Pavla), filial church of Porící nad Sázavou Roman Catholic parish built at the turn of the 11th century, belongs among the the oldest ecclesiastic monuments in Bohemia.
Waymark Code: WMMNK4
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 10/15/2014
Views: 30
Small Romanesque Church of Ss. Peter and Paul (Kostel Sv. Petra a Pavla), filial church of Porící nad Sázavou Roman Catholic parish built at the turn of the 11th century, belongs among the the oldest ecclesiastic monuments in Bohemia.
Church of Ss. Peter and Paul, practically untouched by later architectonic alterations, is one of the rare preserved pure-Romanesque structures in Bohemia. Church, built around 1100 AD, was reconstructed in 1677. Single nave austere church, built from granite ashlars, has rectangular nave (11 × 7.6 m) with semicicrular apse and prismatic 22 m high belfry with Romanesque doubled windows. Interior is mostly Baroque in style, but in apse You can find valuable Gothic frescoes from the 13-14th century. In belfry are two working Renaissance bells - bigger "Peter", cast by bellfounder Bartholomew of New Town of Prague (Mistr Bartolomej z Nového Mesta) in 1507, and smaller "Paul" cast in 1599.