A half-timbered branch church from 1740 with a tower with an octagonal helm roof, a free-standing wooden bell tower and elements of a 17th-century altar.
The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Cieszyno is a former Protestant church, built in 1740 in half-timbered construction. The heritage register dates it more broadly, to the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. It has a rectangular plan, with a chancel closed on five sides and a gabled roof over the nave.
On the south side a square tower was added, also half-timbered, topped with an octagonal, slender helm roof with a ball and a cross. Next to the church stands a free-standing wooden bell tower.
The ceiling is wooden and beamed, and on the south wall there is a music gallery resting on four profiled posts. Elements of the decoration of a 17th-century altar have survived, in which a modern painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been placed. On the frame of the door from the nave to the tower there is a Baroque cartouche. After the war the church was consecrated as a Catholic church, on 15 September 1946. The church belongs to the parish in Runowo, whose church stands in Runowo.
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