A church from the 14th century in Bielice, rebuilt after the war and consecrated in 1963, with 15th-century polychromes uncovered in 2014.
The Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland in Bielice is a stone church on a rectangular plan, built in the 14th century. In the 19th century a five-sided apse and a brick tower on the west side were added to it.
After the Second World War the abandoned church was gradually devastated. After rebuilding it was consecrated as a Catholic one on 1 September 1963.
The outer walls are plastered. The windows of the nave were re-walled in the 19th century and closed with a full arch in brick surrounds, and the east gable is decorated with blind arcading. The tower, with a small gabled roof, has five storeys. Its ground floor has a round-arched entrance portal, and higher up are single and double pointed windows set in pointed niches.
The nave is covered by a flat ceiling, and above the chancel a rib vault has survived. By the west wall stands a gallery. During conservation work in 2014, wall polychromes dated to the 15th century were discovered under the plaster.
In the neighbouring villages stand further historic churches, for example the Church of St Anthony in Swochowo, at a distance of about three kilometres. Nearby also lies the palace in Linie.
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