A late Romanesque church of granite ashlar from the second half of the 13th century, with a tower with a passage, a Romanesque altar and a pulpit from 1711.
The Church of the Holy Spirit in Moryń is a late Romanesque building of granite ashlar, built in the second half of the 13th century. It was first mentioned in the sources in 1263 and 1265, which is why the parish celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2013-2015.
The church has a Latin cross plan and the form of a three-aisle basilica with a short transept and a chancel with a rectangular end. On the west side stands a rectangular tower with a passage across the axis of the church, added at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1756 its uppermost storey was added in timber and covered with a Baroque helmet roof with a lantern. In the 15th century a brick chapel on the plan of an irregular pentagon was added to the south arm of the transept.
In the west wall there is a portal with two recessed orders. The east gable is decorated with blind windows, narrow pointed-arch windows and an oculus. The eaves frieze on the south wall of the chancel and transept was restored in 2013. In a corner of the tower there is a stone with a mason's chequerboard mark.
In the interior, which today is covered with a wooden ceiling, stands a 13th-century altar table of granite ashlar, uncovered in 1955 from beneath later walling-up and partly reconstructed. The richly decorated Baroque pulpit of 1711 was made in the Moryń workshop of H. B. Hattenkerell. On the walls of the chancel painted zacheuszki (apostolic crosses) have survived, probably from the 14th century, as well as fragments of Gothic paintings with devils and crosses. In the gallery stands a 15-stop mechanical organ from the middle of the 19th century. After the war the church was blessed as a Catholic one on 1 December 1945.
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