Bazylika św. Marii Magdaleny i św. Stanisława w Szczepanowie – od gotyckiego kościoła długoszowego po dwudziestowieczny kościół podwójny

• Authors: Jacek Czechowicz

Abstracts

EN

In Szczepanów, the alleged birthplace of St. Stanislaus and the later center of his cult, a brick and stone gothic church was erected in 1470. Previously, there were two wooden churches built one after another. The brick church was built due to the progressive degradation of the structure of the old temple. The church funded by Jan Długosz is an example of a gothic sacral building with perfectly selected proportions and an extremely harmonious combination of architectural forms. It is also the result of a well-thought-out composition program, based on the geometrical relationships of the basic figures: a triangle and a square. The church is in fact a miniature equivalent of a gothic cathedral containing adequate architectural elements, whose artistry and perfection are expressed in ideal proportions of the whole and contrasting size ratios of individual forms. The gothic church had one rectangular nave covered with a wooden beam ceiling and a narrower presbytery with a rib vault, closed with a hexagon. Two entrances led to the nave – direct from the west and from the south, through a square porch. An elongated rectangular sacristy with a cross vault adjoined the northern wall of the presbytery. The nave and the presbytery were covered with a slender, gabled roof, flanked by soaring gables of brick walls over the nave, while over the eastern end of the presbytery it was closed with three additional triangular slopes. The porch and the sacristy were covered with shed roofs led just up to the brick cornices of the temple. The church functioned unchanged for almost a century and a half, until 1610. At that time, a chapel was built on the northern side of the nave. Its outline with three buttresses, visible in a drawing by Władysław Łuszczkiewicz from 1893, indicates that it was a late Gothic structure, although it was built in modern times. The chapel added to the church, did not suppress the original architectural form and did not change the existing functional layout of the building. It was possible thanks to the addition of the gothic structure to the windowless northern wall of the nave. Another reconstruction, probably made in the 17th century, was related to the transformation of the existing porch into a chapel. At that time, the southern portal was walled up, and a small semicircular window was carved on the eastern side. The stonework of the internal portal was also removed, making a wider arcade here. As the western entrance to the church was insufficient, a new porch was added from the north side of the western span of the existing chapel. A radical reconstruction of this sacral complex took place at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, the northern chapel with the adjacent porch and sacristy were torn down. From this side, next to the gothic church, a much larger neo-gothic “cathedral” with a basilica layout appeared, modularly and stylistically referring to the gothic building. The former church of St. Mary Magdalene has become a separate chapel, functionally incorporated into the layout of the new temple through doubled arcades made in the northern gothic wall and an annex in the place of the gothic sacristy, which connected the gothic chancel with the new one. The sacral complex shaped in this way acquired the character of a double church, an integrated form, but not devoid of separate features.

PL

Ceglano-kamienny kościół gotycki wzniesiony w 1470 roku w Szczepanowie z fundacji Jana Długosza jest interesującym przykładem przeobrażenia świątyni w kaplicę. Po neogotyckiej rozbudowie w latach 1907–1914 powstał w tym miejscu kościół w istocie podwójny, zawierający elementy zarówno spójne, jak i kontrastowe – pod względem gabarytów i stylistyki. Niniejszy artykuł zawiera charakterystykę kolejnych przemian strukturalnych tej niewielkiej pierwotnie budowli, która – znacznie powiększona na początku XX wieku – uzyskała charakter obiektu niemal katedralnego. Pomimo tak radykalnych działań szczepanowska świątynia stanowi przykład zespołu architektonicznego, w którym obydwie części – średniowieczna i neogotycka – są dla siebie wzajemnym tłem i uzupełnieniem.

Keywords

PL

Fundacje Jana Długosza; Szczepanów; kościół gotycki

EN

patronage of Jan Długosz; Szczepanów; gothic church

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: TECHNE. Seria Nowa
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 161-178

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Jacek Czechowicz

• Politechnika Krakowska, Instytut Historii Architektury i Konserwacji Zabytków

• https://orcid.org/0000000275927199

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2084-851X.09.08

Biblioteka Nauki

2016268