Church of Saint John of Nepomuk, Catholic church in Svatý Jan nad Malší, Czech Republic.
The Church of Saint John of Nepomuk is a single-nave late Baroque church with a sacristy and presbytery, built in 1777–1782. A tower with a staircase stands on the west side, and an ambulatory wraps both sides and turns eastward. The parish house with its own courtyard entrance is to the north, the school uses the south ambulatory wing, and the cemetery lies east of the church.
The church was built in 1777–1782 on the site of a pilgrimage chapel consecrated in 1735, partly funded by a collection among the residents of Ločenice. A single tower was added in 1823–1824 with support from Count Jan Nepomuk Josef Buquoy of Nové Hrady, and a clock followed in 1906. The building was declared a cultural monument in 1958 and restored in 2018.
The village grew around the church in the 18th century and took its name from the saint. A pilgrimage is held here every year on 16 May, the feast of Saint John of Nepomuk. On the village green stands a statue of the saint carved in 1873 by Jan Kadlec of Trhové Sviny.
The church stands at 614 m above sea level, so the hilltop gives a wide view of the surrounding countryside. The ambits flank the nave and bend eastward; the cemetery lies east of the church, the parish house with its own courtyard entrance to the north. Two lindens named Masaryk and Libuše, planted in 1919, stand in front of the church, with a third added in 2000 by Václav Havel and Dagmar Havlová.
The church stands at 614 m above sea level, one of the youngest pilgrimage sites in Bohemia. Its origin traces to 1732, when the Velešín parish priest Jan Bernard Rierenschopel reportedly saw five stars, the saint's symbol, above the hill. A statue of Saint John of Nepomuk by Jan Kadlec of Trhové Sviny stands on the village green, made in 1873.
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