Church of Saint Stephen in Skřivaň, Catholic church building in Skřivaň, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Stephen in Skřivaň is a single-nave building with a short nave, a presbytery set back on both sides, and an early Baroque circular sacristy built over the Renšperk family crypt. Its outer walls once carried sgraffito with an ornamental frieze, and the interior walls were painted with plant motifs. Eleven leaded window panels of regular glass rings in original oak Gothic frames survive; they were restored in 2005.

The church is first recorded as a parish church in 1352, when it was built of wood. Its last resident priest, Václav, left for Všehrdy in 1433 and was not replaced; the abandoned church was then served for a long time as a filial church from the Utraquist parish of Slabce. At the turn of the 17th century Ferdinand Renšperk of Renšperk had an entirely new church built and furnished it with an altar, pulpit, organ, font (1603) and bell (1607).

The church is dedicated to Saint Stephen and was already recorded as a parish church in 1352. The Renšperk family, buried here, founded a Mass endowment for their souls in 1657; in 1715 the priest of Panoší Újezd complained that Jan Oldřich of Klebelsberg was not paying its annual interest of 35 gulden.

The church stands in Skřivaň beside a separately standing wooden post bell tower from the early 17th century, one of only three surviving wooden bell towers in the Rakovník district; it is roofed with shingles and holds a single bell cast in 1607. The surrounding former churchyard is enclosed by a Renaissance wall built by Jan and Ferdinand Renšperk at the end of the 16th century.

The set of eleven leaded window panes, made of regular glass rings joined into interlocking circles and set in the original oak Gothic frames, survived largely intact and was restored in 2005. The hand-twisted wire mesh hung on the outside of the frames was the work of a blind member of the Renšperk family; part of it is now kept in the depository of the Archbishopric of Prague.