Church of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Nowielin

The Church of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Nowielin is a granite church of the second half of the 13th century, entered in the heritage register. A Baroque altar of about 1700, a Renaissance pulpit basket and a patron's gallery with the coats of arms of noble families have survived in it.

A stone church with a crenellated tower

The church was built of granite ashlar on a rectangular plan, with a rectangular separate chancel closed by a plain wall. At the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries a tower of stone and brick was raised at the west, topped with crenellation and an octagonal brick helm. In the east wall there are four pointed-arch windows, of which the two middle, taller ones sit in a pointed-arch recess with an oculus. In the chancel a Gothic pointed-arch portal of stone and brick has survived, and in the north wall of the nave a trace of a bricked-up stone portal. The plinth has an unusual concave profile.

Interior

The interior is covered with a plastered barrel vault. Preserved are a Baroque altar of about 1700, a Renaissance pulpit basket of about 1600, a patron's gallery with 12 seats decorated with noble coats of arms, a choir gallery with polychromes with scenes from the Old Testament and a Neo-Gothic wooden font. Two bells hang in the tower: one from the end of the 15th century, the other of 1588. The epitaphs of the Hagen family were moved to the library in Pyrzyce. After the Second World War the church was consecrated as a Catholic one in 1947.

Practical information

• Location: Nowielin, Pyrzyce municipality. It is a filial church of the parish in Mielęcin.
• Check the service times and the possibility of seeing the interior with the parish.
• The nearest town, Pyrzyce, has, among other things, the Chapel of the Holy Spirit.