Church of the Visitation of Our Lady, Roman Catholic church in Běšiny, Czech Republic

The Church of the Visitation of Our Lady in Běšiny is a single-nave church whose main axis runs unusually from northwest to southeast. Its flat-ceiled nave ends in a five-sided presbytery with a barrel vault and lunettes, and a square tower with an onion dome, housing the sacristy on its ground floor, adjoins the west side. Two entrances open on the southwest and northeast sides of the nave.

The church was probably built in 1654 by Jan Wohrden and first served as a castle chapel. After a large fire hit Běšiny in 1781, the damaged church was repaired, enlarged and completed in 1788, when it became the parish church. Services and later the furnishings were moved here from the decaying Church of St Bartholomew. A major reconstruction in 1902 extended the church by 5.5 metres, and further works using EU funds followed in 2005–2006.

The church is dedicated to the Visitation of Our Lady. Its main altar, made in 1747 for the church of St Bartholomew, was moved here in 1797; its painting of the Visitation is attributed by tradition to Karel Škréta, though this is unproven. The side altar holds a baroque painting of the Martyrdom of St Bartholomew.

The church stands on a slope, with a staircase leading to the entrance on the southwest side of the nave; a second entrance is on the northeast side. The building, its access staircase and the memorial cross are protected as a cultural monument. The presbytery has a barrel vault with lunettes, while the nave ceiling is flat.

A large granite tomb slab set into the outer east wall of the nave was moved here in 1845 from the church of St Bartholomew. Carved with a relief of a young woman and dated 1595, its German inscription names Anna Margretha Stöcklin von Kotta, the last of her name and line.