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Tomb chapel of the Postruski and Szeliska families

Cemetery in Novosiolka Kosciolkova
ID: NGR-003550-P/3800

Tomb chapel of the Postruski and Szeliska families

The building is built on a north-south axis on a hexagonal plan with a trilaterally closed lower chancel to which a vestry is adjoined on the east and an entrance to the crypt on the north. The chapel is on a pedestal, covered with a wooden cupola with a sheet metal clad lantern, with a four-column portico with Tuscan columns, preceded by two steps. A bas-relief cross in the pediment field. Facades framed by pilasters bearing simplified beams, with ogival window openings between them, and an oculus in the chancel wall. On the axis of the chapel from the north, the entrance to the crypt in the form of a corridor with stairs. The crypt, now heavily devastated, is located under the chancel. The sacristy with a rectangular window in the west wall, covered by a triple-pitched roof. A wooden double door leads into the originally plastered chapel. The interior decoration is not preserved, the ceiling sheathing is mostly torn off, the roof at the corridor to the crypt is torn off, the door to the sacristy is not preserved. Two inscription epitaphs are preserved on the walls at the entrance to the presbytery. The first epitaph in the form of a rectangular plaque set into the south wall of the chapel, with a ritual inscription (1). The second epitaph in the form of a rectangular plaque set into the west wall of the chapel, with a ritual inscription (2).

Inscription:

1. CECYLIA Z KACZKOWSKICH / POSTRUSKA / † W NOWOSIÓŁCE 15 WRZEŚNIA / 1848 R. //.
2. EMILIA Z POSTRUSKA / SZELISKA / † W BORSZCZOWIE 13 SIERPNIA 1855 R. / TEJŻE CÓRKA / ZOFIA † 11 ROKU ŻYCIA † 14 SIERPNIA 1855 R. //.

Time of origin:

1817-1820

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Tomb number 7

Additional dimensions:

Epitaph of Cecilia Posturska: 46 x 74 cm

Materials:

marble

Bibliography:

  • Karta dokumentacyjna obiektu zabytkowego poza granicami kraju, powiat buczacki, zbiór przechowywany w Ministerstwie Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego, Warszawa..
  • „Cmentarze dawnego powiatu zaleszczyckiego, Kaplice, grobowce i nagrobki z inskrypcjami zapisanymi w alfabecie łacińskim (1790–1945)”, red. Anna Sylwia Czyż Bartłomiej Gutowski, Warszawa 2015, 133-134.

Date of documentation:

2005

Publikacja:

12.02.2022

Author of the documentation sheet:

dr hab. Anna Sylwia Czyż, prof. ucz., Katarzyna Trojanek

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, dr hab. Anna Sylwia Czyż, prof. ucz.
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