Słupca is a county town located by the main road Poznań–Warsaw, ca. 70 km east of Poznań.
Not far from the marketplace, in Kościelna Street, you will come across Słupca’s oldest temple. It is an orientated one-nave church with a lower-rising and narrower presbytery, covered by a starry vault. Baroque pinnacles have survived the numerous redevelopments the church has been made subject to.
WW2 over, the church was re-gothicised after a design by Aleksander Holas. Polychromes made in 1891 by Aleksander Przewalski, a student of Jan Matejko’s, adorn the church’s interior. The rood beam with a crucifix dated ca. 1400–1420, a sculpture of Our Lady of Sorrows and a gothic stone baptismal font are definitely the objects of interest. Next to the font is a renaissance bishop’s throne featuring the Łodzia coat-of-arms, turned into a confessional.
In the northern nave, the Our-Lady-of-the-Rosary altar is worth noticing, adorned as it is with bas-reliefs showing the Mysteries of the Rosary. They are fixed in such a way that, with a special mechanism switched on, they are replaceable depending on the liturgical calendar. A similar thing can be seen at the altar’s mensa where you can watch a presentation of Christ’s grave or the Purgatory.
The sacristry door features a really unique curiosity – a chain which, as tradition has it, was used to have Mr. Patkul bound hand and foot.
1998 marked the finding of Poland’s earliest known clockwork mechanism, a miniature copy of which can be admired at the Regional Museum.
A 1532 bell stands in front of the church. A local tradition says that it was hidden from the Germans in 1917, which saved it against being remolten into cannons.
Address:
ul. Kościelna 3
62-400 Słupca
+48 63 275 12 02
