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Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Deštné v Orlických horách

Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Deštné v Orlických horách, Baroque church in Deštné v Orlických horách, Czech Republic.

The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene is a single-nave baroque building with a flat-ceilinged interior. Its west facade has two prismatic towers set at an angle, flanking a three-axis convex portico with blind arcades. The presbytery has a transverse hexagonal plan, segmental inside and rectangular outside.

Built in 1723–1725 for Count František Karel II Libštejnský of Kolowrat on the site of a Gothic parish church recorded in the 14th century. The design is attributed to Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel, who worked for the Kolowrat estate from 1712 and probably drew the plans around 1720; no archival document proves his authorship, but the style supports it.

The church is dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene. Its main altar sculpture is by J. Hartmann, dated to the 18th century, and two side panel altars, of Saint John of Nepomuk and the Passion of Christ, date from the first half of the 18th century. Near the church stands a 1781 group of the Virgin Mary with Saints Joseph, Joachim and Anne.

The church stands in the centre of Deštné v Orlických horách, with its two towers set at an angle to the west facade, so the entrance is reached from the village square side. The interior is flat-ceilinged and the presbytery has a hexagonal plan, ending segmentally inside but rectangular outside. The organ dates from 1729 and the carved main altar from the 18th century.

The authorship of Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel is not documented in the archives; it rests on stylistic analysis and on his work for the Kolowrat estate from 1712. The church's plan follows the same quadrangulation as his church of St Martin in Chrašice.

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