Historical outline
The village lies about 12 km north of Horodenka and about 1 km south of the Dniester River. Michalcz was first mentioned in the 15th century, when the then owner, Mikhail Muzhlo Buczacki, founded a parish church in the settlement. Interestingly, there was a ferry crossing over the Dniester near the village already in the deep Middle Ages. This was the nucleus for a garland of buildings, which over time began to grow and develop into a more organised administrative unit. In 1439, Michalcze had the status of a town.

Among the first owners of the village are mentioned: Michał Awdańc from Buczacz (it was probably from his name that the name of the village was formed) and the Buczacki family (actually Tworowskich of the Pilawa coat of arms, who took the surname after the extinct Awdańcow family). Later (from the end of the 16th century), the estate passed through the hands of, among others: Jan Przystołowski and Iwaśek Domażerski, Stanisław Potocki, Maria Mohylanka.

As Rafał Quirini-Popławski writes in his study of the estate, in 1620, 1621 and 1623 Michalcze was destroyed by Tartar invasions. Thus, one could say that there is a brutal break in the history of the village.

From the 17th century Michalcze belonged to the Skarbeks, from the 19th century to the Teodorowicz family and at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries to the Rosenkranz family. At the beginning of the interwar period, the estate was parcelled out and sold to colonists coming from western Lesser Poland, who created four settlements: Kolonia Konopicka, Kolonia Strażnica, Kolonia Średni Łan and Kolonia Pomiarki.

The Roman Catholic parish, which existed almost from the very beginning of the village, bore the invocation of Corpus Christi, St Michael the Archangel, St Stanislaus and St Catherine. The aforementioned 17th-century Tartar invasions led to the destruction not only of the settlement, but also of the church building. Therefore, a re-foundation took place in 1715, for which a new church of a provisional nature was erected. Shortly afterwards, the construction of a brick church began, but it was not completed until 1750 due to various historical turbulences. It was consecrated in 1776.

The temple was neither particularly lavish nor richly furnished. In addition, it required numerous repairs. The events of the First World War decided its fate. The severe damage to the church led to the need for extensive reconstruction. This did not happen until 1925, although it was not until the late 1920s that the project was fully completed.

In 1940, 56 Polish families, or 254 according to sources, were deported from Michalcze to Siberia. As if that were not enough, between 1943 and 1945, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army murdered 11 people in the village. Little is known about the fate of the church during the Second World War. It was probably closed as early as 1944 and its furnishings were either destroyed or taken away by parishioners to Western Pomerania. The Soviets initially used the building as a kolkhoz warehouse. Later it housed a workshop and then a gymnasium. For many years the church was abandoned. As late as 2009, serious, progressive damage to the walls and huge losses in the roof were reported. The latest available photos from 2020 indicate that renovation of the building has begun. New roofs (on both the church and the bell tower) and new windows in the church can be seen.

Architecture
The building is located in the centre of the village, close to the church. The chancel faces south, with a slight tilt towards the west. The church was built using local untreated stone and plastered. The porch was built of brick.

The temple consists of a two-bay nave and a lower and narrower semicircularly closed chancel, to which a rectangular vestry is attached on the east. The nave is preceded by a rectangular porch, matching its width. On the sides of the nave are symmetrically placed two rectangular chapels, which in projection form the figure of a cross.

The exterior elevations are set on a plinth. The corners of the nave and chapels are framed by Tuscan-like pilasters. The transom of the nave is placed higher than the common transom of the altar area and the chapels. The walls of the sacristy, on the other hand, are articulated only by pilasters placed in the corners. They support the profiled cornice.

The façade is single-axis. The lower part is covered by a porch reaching almost to the middle. The porch itself is tri-axial. Photographs from before the Second World War show a balcony with balustrade on its roof. In the 1990s this part was covered by a canopy. Today (as of 2020) it is again exposed. The most interesting part of the façade is the gable itself. It is framed on the sides by prominent scrollwork. At the top is a bas-relief depicting the Eye of Providence in radiant gloria. Underneath is a circular window, and below this is a rectangular panel. The windows in the building are mostly rectangular or rectangular and closed with an arch.

There are pitched roofs over the nave and vestry, and conical roofs over the chancel. Triple-pitched roofs are placed over the chapels. All are covered with galvanised sheet metal. Old photographs show the turret for the bell tower, which was placed on the ridge of the nave. Nowadays, the turret is slightly moved to the centre of the roof of the nave section.

Inside, the walls of the nave and chancel are not articulated by vertical divisions. Only the side walls of the nave are closed with a profiled cornice. The "main" arcades are semicircular. They rest on sections of profiled cornice. The arcades of the chapels, in turn, feature moulded archivolts with marked keys and inscriptions indicating historical traces going back to the 18th century and the Skarbek family.

Most of the parts were covered with a collector's vault, differing in minor structural details. The porch had a Klein ceiling, i.e. a flat ceiling with its framework supported by metal beams. The music choir was most likely wooden, accessible through a staircase, which was located in the eastern part of the porch.

The most important elements related to the furnishings and surroundings of the building were, or partly are, among others:

• Painting decoration of the interior (early 20th century) consisting of figural, symbolic and ornamental motifs;
• The set of five altars with stone mensa and wooden retables;
• Church cemetery;
• Bell tower of stone masonry, plastered, in the form of a tower, square in plan.