Church of Saint Martin, Early Gothic church in Žimutice, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Martin is an oriented early Gothic building from the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, with a flat painted wooden ceiling in the nave and a five-sided presbytery under a ribbed cross vault, buttressed by three supports outside. Its early Gothic west portal and Gothic wall paintings survive in the nave, while the sacristy on the north side has a late 15th-century cell vault. A square Baroque tower with a helm stands before the west facade.

A parish is first documented in Žimutice in 1261, and the church was built at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries in early Gothic style. In 1365 Bohuslav of Kněžeklady is recorded as patron, and in 1406 Přibík of Žimutice donated an altar of St Boniface. The church was rebuilt in the Baroque period and repaired in 1995–96.

The church is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Žimutice. Its patron is Saint Martin, to whom the early 17th-century main altar and its altarpiece are dedicated. In 1406 Přibík of Žimutice donated an altar of Saint Boniface to the church, and an altar depicting the legend of the Ten Thousand Knights on Mount Ararat is mentioned in 1441.

The church stands in the centre of Žimutice, surrounded by a walled enclosure with a Baroque gate and a niche chapel holding an 18th-century statue of Saint John of Nepomuk. The building is oriented, with the tower set forward of the western facade, so the entrance side faces west. It serves as the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Žimutice.

The churchyard wall has a Baroque gate and a niche chapel with an 18th-century statue of Saint John of Nepomuk. Inside, two late Renaissance tomb slabs of the Čejkovský family of Čejkov, who lived at Štipoklasy, date from 1602.