Single-nave church of granite ashlar from the 13th century, rebuilt in the 18th century, with a pulpit altar of 1725 and a wooden bell tower with bells of 1703 and 1787.
The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Widuchowa is a single-nave building of granite ashlar, built in the 13th century. In the 18th century it was rebuilt. On the west rises a tower of the same width as the nave, raised in half-timbered construction and covered with a Baroque cap. Next to it stands a wooden bell tower. The church is a parish church, in the Gryfino deanery of the Szczecin-Kamień Archdiocese, and is entered in the heritage register (no. 150 of 1956 and A-1181 of 2013).
The church has a rectangular plan measuring 22 by 9 metres and is a hall church with a gable roof. In the west wall is a pointed, three-step portal, and in the south wall two side pointed portals. On the north a sacristy was added to the nave. In the east wall a bricked-up window can be seen, and a small opening, originally probably a so-called leper's squint (hagioscope). The east gable is decorated with a large cross-shaped recess, and beneath it two smaller pointed recesses.
After the Second World War, on 27 January 1946, the church was consecrated as a Catholic church.
The interior is covered with a wooden beamed ceiling, and on the west wall runs a 19th-century wooden choir gallery on posts. A pulpit altar of 1725 (without the pulpit basket) has survived, along with 19th-century pews and a font, a crucifix from the second half of the 19th century and a 19th-century oil painting with a scene of the lamentation of Christ. Next to the church stands a wooden bell tower with two bells of 1703 and 1787.
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