Church of Saint Nicholas, Religious monument in Vrapice, Czech Republic.
The Church of Saint Nicholas in Vrapice consists of a Romanesque rotunda that forms the presbytery and part of the nave, a Gothic nave extension, and a Baroque addition with the current entrance. A Gothic window from Peter Parler's workshop, dated 1370, was inserted into the apse. The north entrance to the rotunda is walled up and half hidden by the sacristy.
Vrapice is first documented in 1320, when Čeněk of Vrapice is named; Jindřich of Vrapice, a cleric at Štěpanov, follows in the land registers in 1345. The fortress north of the church passed to the Benešov family of Prague and was recorded as deserted in 1548 under the Bezdružický of Kolovrat lords of Buštěhrad. The church was completely repaired in 1858.
The church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas, and a plain altar with his image survives from the Baroque furnishings. The wooden choir loft carries a set of 18th-century paintings: Christ in the centre, the apostles at the sides. The village is first recorded in 1320, when Čeněk of Vrapice is named.
The church stands on a hilltop in Vrapice, the eastern part of Kladno, with the former fortress site north of it; the whole area has been a listed cultural monument since 1967. The main path to the fortress passed around the church, so approach from the village side. Graves and the 19th-century mortuary and parish house lie in the southern part of the fortified site.
The church and its fortified site have been a listed cultural monument since 1967. The church grew from a Romanesque rotunda, later extended with a Gothic nave and a Baroque addition; the apse holds a Gothic window from Petr Parléř's workshop dated 1370.
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