Ruins of a Gothic ashlar granite church with a sacristy and a 19th-century von Blumenthal family monument.
The ruins of the church in Pargowo, a village in Kołbaskowo municipality, are what remains of a Gothic church from the early 14th century. The building burnt down in 1945 and was not rebuilt after the war.
The church was first mentioned in 1336 and was probably built in the last quarter of the 13th century. It was a single-nave hall on a rectangular plan measuring 17 by 8.7 m, with no separate chancel and no tower. It was built of carefully worked granite ashlar. A brick sacristy from the 14th century with a barrel vault adjoins it on the north side. The church had three portals, and the south one was set in a pointed-arch blind niche with a trefoil head.
The west portal is covered by a monument in the form of an arcaded portico, built at the end of the 19th century from sandstone blocks. In its central niche, between paired Corinthian columns, is the coat of arms of the von Blumenthal family. A former communion chalice in gold and silver was donated in 1696 by Zofia Eleonora von Wussow, and the bell from Pargowo went after 1945 to the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Szczecin.
The ruin has kept its original Gothic pointed-arch windows with reveals rebuilt in brick, and blind niches in the east gable: two pointed and one circular. The building is listed in the heritage register.
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