Holy Trinity church, Neoclassical church in Všestary, Czech Republic.
Holy Trinity Church in Všestary is a single-nave Neoclassical building with a rectangular plan, its presbytery oriented roughly northeast, and a Gothic tower on its southeast side. The interior painting from 1880 is by Ludvík Nejedlý of Nový Bydžov. The side altars are dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Francis of Assisi.
A Gothic parish church in Všestary is first recorded in 1384; a masonry church followed in 1415, was rebuilt in the first half of the 16th century with a tower that still stands, and was reworked in 1794. The town demolished it at Easter 1842 and had František Kurz of Hradec Králové design a Neoclassical replacement, consecrated on 17 April 1843 by Karel Boromejský Hanl. It has been a cultural monument since 1964.
The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity and belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Všestary in the Hradec Králové diocese. Its bells carry local names: the oldest, cast in 1559 by bell-founder Václav Farář, is called Nejsvětější Trojice, and the smallest, 30 cm across, is the Pozdvihováček.
The church stands in Všestary in the Hradec Králové Region, with its presbytery facing northeast and the Gothic tower on the southeast side. The building is a cultural monument and serves as the parish church of the local Roman Catholic parish.
The Gothic tower at the southeast side survived the 1842 demolition and now belongs to the Neoclassical church consecrated on 17 April 1843. The oldest bell, cast in 1559 by Václav Farář, was kept for its heritage value; only the smallest bell, Pozdvihováček, returned after the Second World War.
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