Church of Saint Nicholas, Roman Catholic church building in Žlutice, Czech Republic
The Church of Saint Nicholas is a single-nave rectangular stone building with a narrower, flat-ended presbytery and a square tower on its western facade. The tower has a pyramidal roof topped by an onion dome with an open lantern. Remnants of Gothic windows are visible in the masonry, now walled up and replaced by lower rectangular windows.
The church, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, belonged to the parish of Středka, which disappeared; from 1384 it fell under the Žlutice deanery, while its property was held by Milevsko Monastery. In 1538 it was mentioned in a purchase contract of Henry IV of Plavno, and after the Žlutice estate passed to the Kokořov family in 1575 the village of Středka is no longer recorded. The early Gothic church was rebuilt in Baroque style in 1765.
The church is a filial church of the Žlutice parish, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. Its former frame altar from the second half of the 18th century held a painting of Saint Nicholas by L. Schulz, signed and dated 1855. The cemetery around it, with its gate, wall and mortuary, is still used and maintained.
The church stands about one kilometre north-west of Žlutice centre and 800 metres east of Verušice, surrounded by a maintained cemetery with a gate, boundary wall and mortuary. The roof and tower covering were repaired in 2009 and 2010. Look for the group of eight small-leaved limes around and on the cemetery.
The church stands about one kilometre northwest of Žlutice centre and 800 metres east of Verušice, in the vanished parish of Středka; the village's disappearance remains unexplained. Eight small-leaved limes (originally ten) grow around and inside the cemetery.
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