Church. St. Nicholas

The church in Mycielin is a valuable example from a group of medieval stone churches of a rural type. It is distinguished by numerous antique elements of decor and equipment. History The church was built in the last quarter of the 13th century. In 1581 a tower was added, and in the 17th and 18th centuries the temple was enlarged by a sacristy, porch and mausoleum. Also in the 18th century, most windows were converted. In 1881 the top of the tower was rebuilt. In the years 1528-1668 it was used by Protestants. Description The church is located in the northern part of the village, at the fork of the road to Nowe Miasteczko and Dlugi, on a small hill. The area around the church is surrounded by a stone wall. From the north-east it is adjacent to the courtyard. The church represents gothic architecture. The building is oriented. It is a stone and brick building, one-nave, with a rectangular presbytery, sacristy and grave chapel from the north, porch from the south and tower from the west. Individual parts are covered with gable roofs, except for the sacristy closed with a desktop roof. Non-plastered stone facades are finished in brick. The fortified tower is topped with neo-Gothic gables. Two original ogival portals and slot windows in the eastern and northern walls of the presbytery have been preserved. The nave is covered with a wooden ceiling from the 16th century and the presbytery with a net vault. Above the chapel there is a barrel vault with lunettes, the sacristy and vestibule are vaulted. The original decor and furnishings have preserved a Gothic polychrome, three late Gothic altars, including the main altar - the work of the Master of the Altar from Gościeszowice, two stone baptismal fonts from the 16th century, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary from the 15th century, a crucifix from the beginning The sixteenth century and the pulpit of the seventeenth century. Extremely numerous antique furnishings of the church complete the set of Renaissance and Baroque epitaphs. On the elevations of the tomb chapel there are stone tombstones from the 19th century. Relics of the defensive tower from around 1600 survived in the wall surrounding the church.

The early Gothic church in Mycielin was built in the second half of the 13th century. About half of the 16th century it was rebuilt and expanded with a tower from the west. The porch and mausoleum were built in the 17th and 18th centuries. Made of stone, one-nave with a rectangular presbytery from the east, with an adjacent sacristy from the north and porch from the south. The whole is surrounded by a perimeter wall with a defensive tower from the 16th century with rectangular shooting windows (one in the form of a key shooting range with a cross).

Interesting building.

A lovely, cozy church.