A Gothic filial church from the 15th century, built of stone and brick, with gables decorated with blind niches and a bell of 1733.
The Church of St Anthony in Swochowo, a village in Bielice municipality, was built in the 15th century and is entered in the heritage register. It is a filial church of the parish of Our Lady Queen of Poland in Bielice.
The building stands on a rectangular plan and is built of stone and brick. The gables are decorated with blind niches. The west façade has a pointed-arch, stepped brick portal, and a second portal is in the south façade. The windows in three walls of the nave are pointed and stepped, in brick reveals.
Inside, an 18th-century choir gallery and a pulpit altar have survived, and its dismantled pulpit basket stands under the gallery. A bell of 1733 hangs in the freestanding bell tower. Next to the church stands a monument to those who fell in the First World War. After the Second World War, on 13 June 1946, the church was consecrated as a Catholic one.
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