Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny
Facts and practical information
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kcynia - one of two Roman Catholic parish churches in Kcynia, in Nakło County, Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province. It belongs to Kcynia deanery of Bydgoszcz diocese.
The temple was built in 1788-1790 as a church of the Carmelites. It is a three-nave building with two towers. The building has no clearly defined architectural style. Max Neumann, a former regency builder from Poznan, wrote that the church was built in the Baroque style. Józef Łepkowski, on the other hand, believed that the building was erected in the style of "bloomed Rococo". The dimensions of the temple are: length - 30 meters, width - 17 meters, height of each of the monastery towers - 37 meters. In the church there are furnishings mainly representing late Baroque and Classicism from the end of the eighteenth century, the late Gothic crucifix comes from the first half of the sixteenth century, neo-Baroque polychrome was painted in 1964 by professor Leonard Torwirt from Torun. The professor used laborious and rarely used techniques: sgraffito and buono fresco.
Kuyavian-Pomeranian