Romanesque granite-ashlar church in Czelin, rebuilt in the neo-Gothic spirit in 1827 to a design by Karl Schinkel.
The Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Czelin was built in the last quarter of the 13th century. It is a Romanesque building of granite ashlar, on a rectangular plan, without a separate chancel. The nave is covered with a gable roof.
The church owes its present appearance to the neo-Gothic rebuilding of 1827, to a design by Karl Schinkel. The walls were raised by three courses of stone above the line of the windows, the tower and portals were rebuilt, the windows were enlarged, and a sacristy was added on the north side. In the west façade is a stepped, pointed portal with pinnacles. The tower is crowned with a conical helmet with an octagonal lantern. In the south wall a trace of the walled-up original portal can be seen.
During the Second World War the church burned down, and the destruction affected about 70 per cent of the fabric. It was rebuilt in 1974-1978. The interior has a flat wooden ceiling, and no elements of the original furnishings have survived in it.
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