Late Gothic brick church in Pieszcz, formerly Protestant, with a tower from 1625 and patron's boxes; now a Roman Catholic filial church.
The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross stands in Pieszcz in Postomino municipality. It is a late Gothic village church from the end of the 15th century, Protestant until 1956, now a Roman Catholic filial church. The zabytek.pl entry describes it as a building with an unusual plan, with a patron's box and a crypt, and with layers from 1625, 1728 and 1906.
The church was built of brick, and the body is mostly unplastered. The east gable is divided by slender pointed blind arches topped with pinnacles, and the windows have pointed arches with a very open angle, typical of the late Gothic. In 1625 a tower was added to the body, and the date can be seen on the façade. Two patron's boxes also adjoin the nave, one each for the von Below and von Krockow families, who owned the village in earlier centuries. The zabytek.pl entry notes that the church may have been built a little later than the end of the 15th century, because the late Gothic style was still used in the countryside in the mid-16th century.
After 1956, when Protestant services ended, the church stood abandoned, and in 1957-1973 a section of its east wall collapsed. The renovation in 1973-1977 included the insulation of the foundations, new plaster, floors and joinery. It was consecrated as a Roman Catholic church on 28 August 1977. The interior has kept no historic elements, apart from a decorative post of the beam between the older and newer parts of the body.
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