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Church of Saint Andrew

Church of Saint Andrew, Empire-style church in Sány, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Andrew is a late Empire-style single-nave church built in 1824–1829 in Sány, with a narrower presbytery closed by a segmental apse and a massive tower above the entrance facade. The tower holds two 16th-century bells, the only surviving elements of the earlier Gothic church. The interior has side altars of St Ludmila and St John of Nepomuk.

A medieval church is documented in Sány in 1352, built on the site of an older wooden structure and linked to the local fortress. It decayed over time and was demolished in 1824 on the initiative of the parish priest Petr Jakoubek, partly because Reformation-era paintings and inscriptions inside could not be whitewashed or scraped away. The present Empire-style church was built as a complete new structure in 1824–1829.

The church is the parish church of Sány in the Kutná Hora vicariate of the Hradec Králové diocese. The bells in the tower, cast in the 16th century, are the only surviving relics of the earlier Gothic church demolished in 1824. The side altars of St Ludmila and St John of Nepomuk remain, and the painting of St Andrew from the former main altar now hangs in the nave.

The church stands in the old centre of Sány, now the village's northern edge, with the small old cemetery beside it and the former rectory (No. 6) north of the church. The new cemetery lies about 200 metres west, at the corner of 9. května and Jana Čapka ze Sán streets. The Cidlina river flows just beyond the rectory garden.

The two bells in the tower date from the 16th century and are the only surviving elements of the earlier Gothic church, which was demolished in 1824 on the initiative of the local priest Petr Jakoubek. The baroque-era paintings and inscriptions inside that church were reportedly so carefully made that they could not be whitewashed or scraped away.

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