St. Sigmund
   Photo: Church of St. Sigmund

St. Sigmund - Catholic parish church, located in the Polish town of Szydłowiec near Market Square. The first church on the site was built in 1401 of wood and was dedicated to King Sigismund I.

At the end of the fifteenth century on the orders of a noble officer Yakub Shydlovsky began construction of a brick parish church, which continued until 1525, and was sponsored by his brother Jakub Shydlovsky - Nikolai .  The church was built of local sandstone in the late Gothic style .  The interior is in the Renaissance style .  To the south of the square nave with adjoining chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and from the north - the Chapel of St. Stanislaus .  A valuable work of architectural art is a portal that leads to the sacristy .  One of the walls of the altar is located tombstone Nicholas Shydlovsky red marble .  The walls and ceiling are decorated with paintings by Stanislav Samostzelnika .  The altar is a beautiful late-Gothic polyptych made by masters of the Krakow in 1509 .  The interior of the church there are interesting drawings made at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, depicting secular and church buildings, as well as the names and memorials .  The organ was installed in the church of St. Sigmund in the nineteenth century .

Next to the church to the cemetery, you can see the bell tower of the sixteenth century.

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