Saint Matthew church in Wrocław, Gothic church building in Wrocław, Poland

Saint Matthew Church at 17a Bishop Nankier Square is a single-nave Gothic brick church on a cross plan, with a transept whose three arms end in polygonal apses and a bell tower in the southeast corner. The nave was raised in 1569, and the tower is topped by a provisional tent roof awaiting reconstruction of its copper-clad spire.

Founded in the first quarter of the 13th century as a court chapel of Henry the Bearded, the church passed in 1253 to the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star, whom Duchess Anna installed with a hospital. The transept arms were added around 1400 and the copper-clad spire was finished in 1487. After the order was dissolved in 1810 it became a parish church; damaged in 1945 and again in 1958, it was rebuilt in 1961–1966 and consecrated on 23 October 1966.

The church is now a rectoral church, and next to it stands the academic chaplaincy "Maciejówka". Two memorial plaques at the entrance honor Angelus Silesius, who was a pastor here, and composer Emanuel Kani (1827–1887), the church organist. In the crypt lies Silesian mystic Johannes Scheffler, known as Angelus Silesius.

The tower is not open for climbing: it is covered by a provisional tent roof and still awaits reconstruction of its copper helm. The entrance is on the east side of Szewska Street at plac bpa Nankiera 17a. Look for the two memorial plaques to Angelus Silesius and Emanuel Kani on the wall by the entrance, and the 1723 Baroque statue of St John Nepomucene by Jan Jerzy Urbański in front of the church.

The tower's original copper-clad pyramid helmet, completed in 1487, was dismantled in 1662 after it weakened and replaced by a small Baroque onion dome. Since 1945 the tower has carried only a provisional tent roof and still awaits reconstruction of its helmet.