Kościół pw. Świętego Jana Chrzciciela, Pilzno

St. John the Baptist Church - Gothic parish church of the city of Pilsen, built in the 14th century.

The history of the parish of Pilsen dates back to 1256. It was founded by Benedictines from the Abbey in Tyniec. The present parish church was built around 1364. The first mention of the temple dates back to 1400 and speaks of its destruction in a fire. Over the centuries the church was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt. Among other things, side aisles were added, transforming the originally single-nave building into a three-nave basilica.

St. John the Baptist Church is an oriented brick church with a quadrilateral tower covered with a pyramidal cupola on the western side and a tripartite closed presbytery. The whole body of the church is supported by buttresses. There is a sacristy on the northern side of the presbytery and a porch on the southern side. The church is covered with tin saddle roof with neo-gothic little bell.

The church's interior, covered with barrel vaults with lunettes in the nave and the presbytery and with stellar vaults in the aisles, the porch and the sacristy, is decorated with an Art Nouveau figural polychrome with floral motifs, painted in 1908. Most of the neo-Gothic interior furnishings were purchased in the late 19th century in Tirol. From the earlier equipment remained two Baroque side altars, the pulpit and the crucifix in the rainbow opening, Rococo organs and a valuable late-Gothic sculpture of the Virgin Mary with Child, dating from the early sixteenth century.

In the church there is a neo-Gothic marble epitaph of Sebastian Petrycy from Pilsen, founded in 1908 by the inhabitants of the town.