Kostel Matky Boží Na Náměti, Gothic church in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
Kostel Matky Boží Na Náměti is a hall church with a square ground plan, three naves and a polygonal presbytery, built outside the town fortifications. Its three-storey west tower is inserted on the axis of the portal and bears the post-1620 town coat of arms and the emblems of the miners, ore extractors, mint masters and coin strikers.
Founded before 1357, probably on the site of an older mining chapel, the church is first documented in the early 15th century. A lightning strike in 1470 brought down the original tower and nave vaults; the Rejsek workshop completed the tower by 1490, and new pillars and a net vault were built in 1509–12, attributed to Master Blažek.
The church was also called the Lower Church, and its cemetery served the town's miners and residents until the late 19th century; in 1961 the burial ground became a park, where only the Wroclawský family grave remains. The tower clock was moved higher by clockmaker Jakub Vladyka after complaints that it could not be seen from afar.
The church stands in the eastern part of Kutná Hora, outside the town fortifications, on the site of the former cemetery, which became a park in 1961; only the Wroclawski family grave remains. The tower's neo-Gothic portal and external staircase date from the 1886–1887 restoration, and the tower was restored again in 2008–2010.
The tower clock was originally mounted lower; complaints that it could not be read from a distance led the clockmaker Jakub Vladyka to move it to its present position. The tower also bears the post-White Mountain town coat of arms and the emblems of the miners, ore cutters, mint masters and coin strikers.
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