Kostel Sv. Jana Nepomuckého / Church of the St. John of Nepomuk - Svoboda nad Úpou (North-East Bohemia)
N 50° 37.397 E 015° 48.905
33U E 557655 N 5608250
Late-Baroque Church of the St. John of Nepomuk (Kostel Sv. Jana Nepomuckého) in Svoboda nad Úpou, build in 1777, is filial church of the Roman Catholic parish in Janské Lázne.
Waymark Code: WM12A60
Location: Královéhradecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/11/2020
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Late-Baroque Church of the St. John of Nepomuk (Kostel Sv. Jana Nepomuckého) in Svoboda nad Úpou, build in 1777, is filial church of the Roman Catholic parish in Janské Lázne.
The Church of was built on the site of the original Gothic church on the initiative of Joseph Adam prince of Schwarzenberg in 1777–1779 and was consecrated to St. John of Nepomuk. The church is single-nave structure with a prismatic 35 m high tower added in later period (1836). The nave is finished by a rectangular presbytery and covered by a saddle roof with a sanctus turret above the presbytery. The tower is on a square ground plan with a high pyramidal roof with dormers. In the tower is a clock with four modern dials, the windows are rectangular with a vaulted upper part. The nave of the church has flat ceiling, the presbytery is vaulted by Broque Bohemian vault ("Ceská placka"), the entrance part of the tower is vaulted by a cross vault. The ceiling frescoes are from the mid-19th century; altar from the mid-18th century. A walled cemetery with a morgue which originally surrounded the church was abolished for sanitary reasons in 1888.
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