Church of Christ the King in Dolice

The Church of Christ the King in Dolice was built around 1596 as a Renaissance building of erratic boulders. Its oldest furnishings, the altar and the pulpit, arrived here only after 1945 from a church in another village.

The building

The nave on a rectangular plan has a gable roof and plastered walls. The later Baroque rebuilding left traces in the body of the church, but the Renaissance east gable with cornices and volutes has survived. In the second half of the 18th century a tower with a Baroque helm with a lantern was added at the west, and in the 19th century two annexes with staircases to the gallery were added to the tower, and a porch on the south side. On the wall of the porch there is a barely legible tombstone of the wife of Pastor Bluht from 1831.

The altar and pulpit from Morzyca

The wooden high altar of about 1613 comes from the church in Morzyca (today a ruined church). In the predella the Last Supper and the coats of arms of the Wedel family are painted, and in the retable scenes of the Crucifixion, the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Circumcision and the Adoration of the Magi, and the Resurrection. At the sides stand bas-reliefs of the four Evangelists. A late Renaissance pulpit from the end of the 16th century, with images of the Evangelists on the bowl, was also moved from Morzyca. The wooden ceiling is decorated with paintings from the New Testament of 1975, the work of Joanna Spychalska.

After the war

During the Second World War the tower and the roof truss were damaged. The Red Army set up a cinema hall and a stable in the church. After renovation the church was consecrated as a Catholic one on 27 October 1946.

Practical information

• Location: Dolice, ul. Kolejowa.
• The church is a parish church, and the service times are given on the parish website.