Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Catholic parish church in Blazice, Czech Republic
The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a late-Baroque single-nave church with a polygonal apse and a sacristy attached on its axis, standing by the II/437 road in the southern part of Blazice. A two-storey square tower with a clock and a broken pyramid spire is built into the front facade, and a six-sided lantern with a tent roof sits on the nave ridge.
The church was built in 1788 at the expense of the Religious Fund (Náboženský fond). It received new vaulting in 1808, was repaired and given an organ in 1885, and underwent an extensive reconstruction in 2000. The church and the statue of St John of Nepomuk in front of it are protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
The church is dedicated to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and its parish belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Blazice in the Holešov deanery of the Olomouc Archdiocese. A copy of a statue of Saint John of Nepomuk stands on its original stone base in front of the facade; it was entered in the state heritage register in 1973 under number 47279/7-5887.
The church stands by the II/437 road in the southern part of Blazice, with the copy of the St John of Nepomuk statue on its original stone base in front of the entrance facade. The interior is entered through a vestibule in the ground floor of the two-storey tower, and the nave is lit by three rectangular windows on each side. The building is a parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Blazice, Holešov deanery, Olomouc archdiocese.
The church is a parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Blazice, in the Holešov deanery of the Olomouc Archdiocese. A copy of a statue of Saint John of Nepomuk stands before the facade on its original stone base; it was entered in the state heritage register in 1973 under number 47279/7-5887.
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