Church of Saint Catherine, Romanesque church in Tetín, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Catherine in Tetín is the smallest of the village's three churches. It has a square presbytery with an original cross vault and a rectangular nave with a flat ceiling from a 19th-century reconstruction. A Romanesque window survives in the wall behind the altar, and a stone gallery vaulted with two cross vaults stands at the west end.

Founded around 1200 in the Romanesque style, the church was originally dedicated to Saint Ludmila, to whom the neighbouring Baroque church of Saint Ludmila is now dedicated. Under the Josephine reforms it was abolished, bought by the village and used as a granary. After 1849 it was bought back with money from a public collection, and in 1858 Archbishop Bedřich Schwarzenberg reconsecrated it.

The church is also known as St. Catherine of Alexandria. Its winged altar from the second half of the 19th century is a copy of a painting by Josef Vojtěch Hellich: the central image shows St. Catherine kneeling, with the Tetín churches painted beneath her, and the wings depict St. Anne and St. Ferdinand.

The church stands in the village of Tetín, and the walled churchyard is entered through the bell tower of 1858. The complex, including the bell tower and the enclosing wall, is a protected cultural monument. A stone cross set into the wall once stood on the church roof, and a statue of St. Ludmila by Josef Max, dated 1858, stands by the wall.

The bell in the tower dates from 1496, older than the tower itself, which was built with a staircase to the gallery in the 19th-century renovations. A stone cross now set into the churchyard wall once stood on the church roof.