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St. Nicholas Parish Church in Radochońce

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St. Nicholas Parish Church in Radochońce

Historical outline
The village was first mentioned as early as in the 14th century. Several references to the Radochońc family at the height of this century appear in the sources. Among the owners over the centuries are mentioned Henry Czech (1371), Michał Wapowski (1392), Mikołaj Wapowski (1495), the Herburts (1589), the Korniakts, Mikołaj Ossoliński, Marcin Krasicki, and in the 20th century the Stadnickis from Krysowice.

The origins of the parish in Radochońce are not clear. However, sources mention parish priests parallel to the 15th century. On the basis of the visitation acts from the beginning of the 17th century, it can be established that there was a wooden sacral building in the village, but at that time it was in a "catastrophic condition". The church was most likely repaired after this visitation, but was ravaged by Cossacks in 1648 and consumed by a massive fire at the beginning of the following century. Quite soon, a new wooden temple was erected from the foundation of Anna Siemianowska, Sandomierz ensign, but it was a symbolic, modest building and in fairly short order in need of repair.

In the 18th century, it was decided that Radochońce would belong to the parish of Hussakov. Thanks to the strenuous efforts of the inhabitants, a century later the village again had its own parish church. In his study of the site, Piotr Krasny mentions the determined believers who, in their efforts to restore the parish in Radochonce, restored the old church. Unfortunately, as a result of warfare, in 1915, most of the buildings in the village burned down, including the church building. In 1916, the inhabitants built a makeshift chapel in the place of the old church. Efforts to build a fully-fledged building, for various reasons, dragged on until the early 1930s. This was mainly because the small parish could not afford a real church. The consecration took place in 1932.

In 1950 the authorities closed the church and turned it into a kolkhoz warehouse. Some of the furnishings were saved and donated to a nearby church. The church was recovered in 1989. In the following years, the church underwent extensive renovation.

Architecture
The building is located at the edge of the village, on top of a high hill. The chancel faces north-west. The nave consists of four bays and the chancel, which is narrower and lower than the nave, is closed with a trilateral arch. Adjoining the façade is a rectangular-plan vestibule and a square-plan tower, which houses a staircase. The helmet is built in the form of three piled-up bulbous domes, decreasing in height. The tallest and smallest one is topped with a proportionally sizable cross.

At the third bay of the nave, on either side, are chapels on the plan of isosceles triangles. As Piotr Krasny writes in his study of the building: "Between the chapel on the left and the fourth bay of the nave an annex is built in, containing a rectangular winter chapel, preceded by a five-sided vestibule, and a small rectangular store room. On the opposite side, a similarly situated annex consisting of a sacristy on a rectangular plan, with also rectangular vestibule and storeroom, with a small semicircular apse to the north-west".

The front elevation of the nave, on the other hand, is single storey with irregular frame divisions and surmounted by a triangular gable. A prominent moulded cornice is placed between it and the lower parts. An interesting solution was also applied to the entrance to the porch. It opens with an aedicula-shaped portal formed by a pair of Tuscan columns. The attic is separated by profiled cornices. The other facades are plain. Apart from the profiled cornice, they do not attract attention with any articulation. The exceptions are the buttresses on the side walls of the nave.

The roofs over the main parts (nave, chancel, chapels) are gabled. The other parts are either multi-pitched (apse, winter chapel vestibule) or pulpit (sacristy, winter chapel, storerooms). All were clad in sheet metal. The same is true of the tower helmet and the turret for the bell tower.

Inside, the main feature is the lunette barrel vault covering the nave. It flows seamlessly into the rectangular wall pillars, decorated with Tuscan-style pseudo-pillars. The chancel is covered by a barrel vault, the sacristy by a barrel vault with lunettes and the "triangular" chapels by lunettes. A coffered ceiling was used in the winter chapel and smooth ceilings in the other modules. The rainbow arcade was built in a semicircular pattern. The windows in the building are mainly rectangular, closed with a semicircle. There is a round window in the organ room and rectangular windows elsewhere.

The rainbow arch has a semicircular design. Entrance openings from outside and inside the church rectangular. In the nave, chapels and apse there are high rectangular windows, closed with a semicircle, in the organ prospectus room there is a circular window, and in the rest there are rectangular windows. The music choir was supported by three arcades spanning between columns.

In his study of the building, Piotr Krasny writes that the church in Radochońce can be regarded as an attempt to adapt the forms of the Polish native style to the principles of functional architecture, conceived in a simplified manner.

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Time of origin:
1932
Creator:
Bronisław Wiktor (architekt; Polska, Ukraina)(preview)
Bibliography:
  • Piotr Krasny, „Kościół parafialny pw. Świętego Mikołaja w Radochońcach”, w: „Materiały do dziejów sztuki sakralnej na ziemiach wschodnich dawnej Rzeczypospolitej”, cz. 1: „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie dawnego województwa ruskiego”, Kraków: Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury w Krakowie, 1999, ISBN 83-85739-66-1, t. 7, s. 284-293.
Publikacja:
11.10.2024
Ostatnia aktualizacja:
12.10.2024
Author:
Michał Dziadosz
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