Church of All Saints, Religious monument in Zdětin, Czech Republic.
The Church of All Saints is a single-nave, rectangular building with a five-sided presbytery supported by sandstone buttresses and a Baroque prismatic tower. Above the presbytery sits a small bell turret with a five-sided lantern. The presbytery, 7.75 m long and 4.86 m wide, has cross and radial vaulting with pear-shaped ribs on decorated corbels, and a Gothic niche tabernacle with tracery in its north wall. The nave measures 8.35 m by 7.05 m and has a wooden coffered ceiling and gallery from 1903.
A parish church in Zdětín is documented as early as 1260; the surviving Gothic building dates from the 14th century. It was restored between 1903 and 1905, when the interior wall paintings were executed by J. Janša after sketches by V. Mašek, and its plaster was repaired in 1969. Since 1958 it has been protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
The village church is first recorded in 1260, and the building that stands today is Gothic from the 14th century, later rebuilt in Baroque style. Its name, All Saints, refers to the feast honouring all saints. Inside, the presbytery keeps wall paintings from around 1380 showing six scenes from Christ's life, the symbols of the evangelists and texts from the Old and New Testaments.
The church stands on the former cemetery on the village green of Zdětín, in the Mladá Boleslav district; old tombstones and sculptures remain in the grounds around it. The sandstone buttresses of the five-sided presbytery and the prismatic Baroque tower are the easiest features to pick out from the square.
In the presbytery survive fragments of Gothic wall paintings from around 1380: six scenes from Christ's life on the south wall, the Evangelist symbols on the vault, and texts from the Old and New Testaments. The north wall also holds a Gothic niche tabernacle with tracery.
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