A neo-Romanesque parish church from 1847 of granite ashlar, with a brick tower and a pointed bell turret.
The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Żabowo, in Nowogard municipality, was built in 1847 in neo-Romanesque style. It is a parish church entered in the heritage register in 2008, and it has been a parish church since 1985.
The church was built of granite ashlar on a rectangular plan, with a chancel closed on three sides at the east end. The window surrounds and the frieze running around the upper part of the walls are made of brick. The nave is covered with a gable roof of ceramic tiles, and in the west gable above the entrance is a round window. A brick tower with a double window and an oculus rises from the body, topped with a gable roof and a tall bell turret.
The ceiling is wooden and beamed, and above the entrance stands a wooden gallery. In the central window of the chancel is a painting of Our Lady of the Rosary, and on the rood beam stand figures of two kneeling angels adoring the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. No historic furnishings have survived. The church was consecrated as a Catholic one on 28 October 1945.
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