Augustinian monastery, Monastery in Mělník, Czech Republic

The Augustinian Monastery in Mělník-Pšovka is a four-wing, two-storey building around a rectangular courtyard with an ambulatory and the Church of St. Lawrence on the north side. The ground-floor rooms have barrel vaults with lunettes or a cross-ridge vault; two rectangular spaces south of the church have cross-ribbed vaults, one serving as the sacristy. The ambulatory arcades were walled up in 1866, and a marble tombstone from 1574 is preserved there.

Founded in 1263, the monastery became a significant religious center in the Bohemian region over the following centuries. It underwent various reconstructions and expansions, with most of its visible baroque features added during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The monastery's name recalls the Augustinians who came from Pivoně in 1263; the convent church of St. Lawrence was consecrated by Bishop Jan III of Dražice. After the order left in 1789, the church became the parish church of Pšovka, with the Augustinian Marek Blažej as its first parish priest.

The monastery now houses a nursing home run by Senlife, so the interior is not open to tourists; the four-winged building around the rectangular courtyard and the Church of St. Lawrence can be viewed from the outside. The arcades of the surviving square cloister were walled up in 1866.

The square cloister arcades were walled up in 1866, and a marble tombstone from 1574 survives inside. In the 1980s the monastery housed an apprentice school, and in 2021 the conversion project won a Special Jury Prize at the Best of Realty competition.