Late Gothic three-aisled hall church in the former capital of a duchy, with Gothic paintings on the vault and a stone font.
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul the Apostles in Sławsko stands in a village that was the capital of the Duchy of Sławno from the 12th century. A parish church probably already existed here at that time, and in 1248 the local parish priest was mentioned. The present building is a three-aisled hall with a tower.
The church was mentioned in 1489. The form of the vaults and the arches of the portals and blind niches make it possible to date the present three-aisled building no earlier than the last quarter of the 15th century, although some sources point to the beginning of that century. From the Reformation until 1945 it was a Protestant church, rebuilt at the turn of the 20th century. In 1966, during renovation, Gothic paintings were discovered on the vault, and in 1992 fragments of a Gothic floor.
The church is oriented, built of brick on a foundation of broken boulders. It is a three-aisled hall of three bays, without a separate chancel, closed on three sides at the east end, with a narrower tower on the west side. The body is about 20 m long, the whole church about 24 m. The pointed-arch portal of the tower and the stone font in the porch give the interior a Gothic character. The spatial layout of the building is sometimes compared with late Gothic churches of Saxony, Lusatia and Greater Poland, because it differs from the typical town churches of West Pomerania.
Nearby lies Sławno with the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the town hall.
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