Kostel svatého Bartolomeje / Church of St. Bartholomew - Rakovník (Central Bohemia)
N 50° 06.224 E 013° 43.978
33U E 409392 N 5550932
The monumental late-Gothic Decanal Church of St. Bartholomew (Dekanský chrám Sv. Bartolomeje), 14th-century structure with a splendidly decorated interior, is the most important historic and architectural landmark of the Royal Town Rakovník.
Waymark Code: WMNMGV
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/04/2015
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The monumental late-Gothic Decanal Church of St. Bartholomew (Dekanský chrám Sv. Bartolomeje), 14th-century structure with a splendidly decorated interior, is the most important historic and architectural landmark of the Royal Town Rakovník. St. Bartholomew is parish church of Rakovník Roman Catholic parish.
Church of St. Bartholomew was constructed on the original site of the early medieval St. Nicholas’ Church (ca 1367) and rebuilt, after devastating fire during Hussite wars (1422), into its present late-Gothic form at the end of the 15th century and early 16th century.
The church is a three-nave structure with a long, pentagonally enclosed presbytery and square vestry (the former chapel of the Virgin Mary) on the north presbytery's side. Above the chapel is a small sanctus tower. The Church's west facade with the portal from 1514 and Renaissance town's coat of arms is equipped by two modern hexagonal stairway turrets. From the Church's interior is important richly decorated pulpit from 1504 (the work of Matyáš Rejzek), or the cycle of Gothic frescoes of Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew and St. Dorothy (turn of the 14-15th century).