Church of Saint Mark, church in Litovel

Church of Saint Mark is a church building in Litovel with a rectangular layout oriented from southeast to northwest. It has a presbytery with a three-sided end, side chapels, and a square tower positioned to the southwest.

The church is first documented in 1342, when patronage rights belonged to the Cistercian nuns of Staré Brno, who held them until 1562. Troops of Jan Pardus of Horka and Vratkov plundered it in 1437, and it was reconsecrated in 1444. After a fire in 1623, the Olomouc builder Melichor Donek gave it its present Baroque form in 1675–1677; the tower was completed in 1699.

The church's patronage belonged to the Cistercian nuns of the monastery in Staré Brno, who received it from Eliška Rejčka and held it until 1562. The church stands in Litovel's original church precinct, which also held the Chapel of Saint George, a cemetery used until 1784, a rectory and a school.

The church lies in Litovel's old ecclesiastical precinct, where the cemetery was used for burials until 1784; the chapel of Saint George, the parish house and the school stood or still stand nearby. The building is oriented with its main axis running northwest to southeast, so the three-sided presbytery faces southeast. The tower, completed in 1699, carries a pyramidal slate roof that replaced a red-painted shingle roof in 1855.

The Marian Chapel was restored in 1900–1901, not built then; it was added to the church in the first half of the 18th century and consecrated probably in 1741. At the same time, thanks to a donation from A. Gürtlová of Litovel, the church vault received four paintings of the life of the Virgin Mary: Nativity, Annunciation, Assumption and Coronation, by Jindřich Taschner of Prostějov.