Our Lady of Loreto church in Chodel, Church building in Chodel, Poland.
The ruins of the Our Lady of Loreto church in Chodel are those of a late-Baroque Jesuit church built in 1750. It was a brick building on a rectangular plan with three naves, a basilican layout modelled on Lublin Archcathedral, a semicircular apse and two rectangular sacristies. The front elevation had two storeys and three axes, with two round turrets partly embedded in the facade.
The church was built in 1750. The Jesuits left it in 1773, after which it fell into ruin. In 1785 the parish priest Jakub Gajewski moved the image of Our Lady of Loreto to the parish church in Chodel, and no services have been held here since. An attempt to demolish the ruins in 1910 failed because of the thick walls.
The church received official recognition as an immovable monument in 1966 when it was registered in the Lublin Voivodeship cultural heritage list under number A/130.
The site is somewhat remote and requires intentional effort to locate and visit. It helps to gather local information or plan ahead, as signage at the location is limited.
In 1910 an attempt was made to demolish the ruins, but it failed because the walls were too thick. The building was modelled on the archcathedral in Lublin, and some of its elements were made of opoka stone faced with brick.
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