Chapel of Saint Lawrence, Religious chapel in Úlice, Czech Republic.
The Chapel of Saint Lawrence consists of a rectangular nave with a brick floor and a flat timber ceiling, joined to a polygonal presbytery. Two Gothic-style windows on the south side frame a sandstone Renaissance portal carved with ornamental grapes and an inscription naming its founder, Kryštof Úlický z Plešnic. A round window sits in the west facade, and a small Baroque wooden gallery without an organ stands inside.
The chapel was built in 1615–1619 by Kryštof Úlický of Plešnice and his wife Anna Žofie Nebílovská of Drahobuz as a family tomb. Its architecture is Renaissance with Gothic echoes, seen in the pointed south windows and the polygonal presbytery. The tomb below was opened in 1907, and an oval medallion was found on one of the skeletons. Restored in 2018–2022, the project won the National Heritage Institute's first prize for discovery of the year 2021.
The chapel was built as the family tomb of Kryštof Úlický z Plešnic and his wife Anna Žofie Nebílovská z Drahobuze. The pews were deliberately placed lengthwise, facing each other, so that a coffin could stand between them before the funeral procession left for the Jezná cemetery and church.
You can find the chapel in the village of Úlice and reach it by following local roads through the settlement. Its precise location is at coordinates 49.762166 latitude and 13.147831 longitude.
The chapel is Roman Catholic, historically belonging to the Jezná parish and today to the Nýřany parish; the Old Catholic claim is wrong. Its founder Kryštof Úlický z Plešnic took part in the Bohemian Revolt yet remained Catholic and was spared execution after the Battle of White Mountain, which is why the 1619 altar was built for Catholic services.
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