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A Gothic painting "Christ in a Mystical Press”, hanging onthe west wall in the vestry of St Mary’s Church in Stargard Szczeciński, dates back to 1400. Hie painting on the west wall in the vestry of St Mary’s Church depicts Christ embracing the Cross and standing on the press for grape squeezing as well as Our Lady kneeling on the righ side. In 1971 the left part of the painting was ruined unintentionally by taking the plaster off the base. There remained a few thousand pieces of plaster in different sizes ranging from 1 dem* to 0.5 cm*. After numerous attempts to rescue the painting, basing on a protograph from before 1945 the drawing (in 1:1 scale) was put on the wall by means of epidiascope and employing, in the absence of a clear drawing of the painting as well as varying thickness of the plaster, characteristic traces on bricks, hollows and bulges, scratches and refits, the negatives of which were impressed in plaster; all ruined part of the painting was put anew on the same place, gluing pieces of plaster with a solution of vinyl polyacetate and fine sand. The whole of the paining was cleaned, while powdered paint was fixed with 2—3°/i water solution of vinyl polyacetate and polyvinyl alcohol with sodium-5-chlorophenolan. Part of the painting sticking to the base, in which plaster got detached, was fixed with a water solution of vinyl polyacetate. Missing plasters were made up with lime- and sand mortar, and horizontally hatched with dry dyes and polyvinyl alcohol.