Church of Saint Catherine, Religious monument in Višňová, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Catherine is a single-nave stone church with a polygonal presbytery 4.8 m wide and 7.2 m long, rib-vaulted with traces of polychromy. A prismatic tower with a shingled onion dome stands at the northwest; a Baroque Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre adjoins the north side. A massive stone wall with two arched gates surrounds it.

The church was built in the early Gothic style around 1300. At the end of the 17th century it was rebuilt in the Baroque style. Around 1713 a major plague epidemic struck, and a plague cross in front of the church commemorates it. The church, its perimeter walls and gates are protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

The church is dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria. A plague cross in front of the building recalls the major epidemic of around 1713. The bell in the tower, one metre wide, bears a two-part inscription and a rough half-relief of Saint Wenceslas.

The church stands on the former village green of an abolished cemetery, enclosed by a massive stone wall with two arched gates; the leafy raised ground in front of the gates sits slightly above the road. The building is walled in rough rubble stone with smooth light-grey lime plaster on the outer facades. The tower, on the northwest side, is topped by an onion dome covered in wooden shingles and a cross.

On the south wall of the nave, between the windows, a painted sundial was restored in 1973. The tower holds a bell one metre wide and 0.78 m high, bearing a two-part inscription and a rough half-relief of Saint Wenceslas about 1.45 cm high. A second bell hangs in a small steel turret and strikes automatically.