Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Gothic church in Město, Czech Republic.

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul stands in the middle of Republiky Square in Horšovský Týn, on the north bank of the Radbuza. A rectangular nave leads to a lower, narrower presbytery, with a prominent tower on the north side marked by illusionary Renaissance quoins. The west facade has a Baroque volute gable with half-columns around niches where statues of the two patron saints probably once stood, and original Gothic buttresses support the whole structure at regular intervals.

The church was probably built shortly after the bishop's castle was completed in the second half of the 1260s, and it was fortified in 1283. It burned in the town fire of 1547 during the castle's Renaissance rebuilding and again in 1708. The interior appearance largely dates from an 18th-century Baroque remodelling.

The church's original dedication was to Saint Peter alone; Saint Paul was added much later, as happened at the Romanesque rotundas of Saint Peter at Budeč and Starý Plzeň. The west facade's Baroque volute gable has niches with half-columns where statues of both patron saints probably once stood.

The church stands in the middle of náměstí Republiky on the north bank of the Radbuza, near the former bishop's castle. The west front is divided into three rooms: a chamber to the south, stairs to the gallery to the north, and a vestibule in the middle leading into the nave. Look for the Gothic buttresses spaced along the outer walls.

The west facade's Baroque volute gable has niches framed by half-columns where statues of Saints Peter and Paul probably once stood. The tower on the north side carries painted illusionary Renaissance quoins, masonry blocks rendered in paint rather than stone.