Kolegiata Wniebowzięcia NMP
Historic site · Uniejów · Łódź
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Built in 1349 by Archbishop Jarosław Bogoria Skotnicki, the same patron behind the neighboring castle, this Gothic brick collegiate church was consecrated in 1365 and still holds its original 14th-century cross-rib vault. Its Chapel of Blessed Bogumił, added in the 1660s, houses the hermit's relics. Damaged in 1939, the sanctuary was rebuilt in 1945-1946.
A church stood on this site by at least 1170, when a bishop was consecrated there, well before Archbishop Bogoria Skotnicki's Gothic rebuilding two centuries later. The building burned in 1462, and in September 1939 the roof caught fire and the west gable collapsed along with the nave's vault; the original ribbed vault over the chancel survived intact and remains the building's oldest fabric. Restorers repainted the interior in 1958. Blessed Bogumił's bronze sarcophagus, cast in Gdansk in 1667 for his chapel, was restored along with the chapel's facade in 2018.
What you see
The brick chancel narrows to a polygonal apse, visibly lower and older than the nave built onto it two centuries later.
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Common questions
- Why stop at Kolegiata Wniebowzięcia NMP on a bike ride?
- Built in 1349 by Archbishop Jarosław Bogoria Skotnicki, the same patron behind the neighboring castle, this Gothic brick collegiate church was consecrated in 1365 and still holds its original 14th-century cross-rib vault. Its Chapel of Blessed Bogumił, added in the 1660s, houses the hermit's relics. Damaged in 1939, the sanctuary was rebuilt in 1945-1946.
- Where is Kolegiata Wniebowzięcia NMP?
- Kolegiata Wniebowzięcia NMP is in Uniejów, Łódź (Poland).