Rectory in Louny, Clergy house in Louny, Czech Republic

The Rectory in Louny is a one-storey Baroque corner building at the junction of Beneše z Loun and Česká streets, opposite the main entrance of St Nicholas Church, house no. 136. Pilasters divide its front and side façades, a cordon cornice separates the ground floor from the upper storey, and the ground-floor windows have no pediments while arched and triangular pediments alternate above the upper windows. The ground-floor corridor and the staircase have barrel vaults with lunettes.

Construction of the new rectory began on 25 January 1704, when two prisoners dug the foundations; from 6 April journeymen of the Louny burgher and guild elder Dominik Rigon worked on the site. The building, including the chaplain's house, was finished on 10 July 1707 at a cost to the town of 4,332 guilders and 19 kreutzers. Rigon, born in Mandria near Padua in 1652 and dead in 1728, built "on green turf": the old rectory at house no. 137 was sold to a townsman only in 1708. The building was altered in the 19th century and was protected as a cultural monument before 1988.

The rectory is the seat of the Roman Catholic Parish Office – Deanery of Louny, which administers the parish based at the neighbouring Church of St Nicholas. The parish church was likely already parochial in the last quarter of the 13th century, and the clergy house stood next to the present one, on the site of house no. 137.

The building is easy to find near the town center on a main street of the city. As an active administrative site, visitors can observe its exterior and architectural details from the street.

The plot's rear wing, the chaplain's house (kaplanka), also dates to the early 18th century, and the rectory garden borders remnants of the town fortifications, including the stump of a former pointed bastion. The builder, Dominik Rigon of Mandria near Padua, worked "on green turf": the old rectory at house no. 137 was sold to a townsman only in 1708, after the new one was finished.