DOI Artikel:
Adamski, Jakub: An allusion to a cathedral in a rural foundation: on the iconography of the architecture of the sixteenth-century parish church in Brochów
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.51757#0013
AN ALLUSION TO A CATHEDRAL IN A RURAL FOUNDATION?...
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1. Brochów, parish church, ground plan. Drawing by J. Adamski
after R. Kunkel, Jan Baptysta Wenecjanin, budowniczy i obywatel płocki, “Biuletyn Historii Sztuki”, 45, 1983, p. 26
2. Brochów, parish church, lateral cut. After A. Szyszko-Bohusz, Warowne zabytki architektury kościelnej w Polsce
i na Litwie. Ptkanów — Brochów - Małomeżejków - Synkowicze — Supraśl — Wilno,
“Sprawozdania Komisyi do Badania Historyi Sztuki w Polsce”, 9, 1915, col. 332-342, Fig. 7
towers on the circular ground plan, containing wide staircases in their lower sections. These staircases
lead to the level of a narrow passage, which runs within the walls of the clerestory of the main nave and
the chancel to the gallery in the eastern tower; the passage has large openings towards the interior of the
church on its entire length (Fig. 5, 6). In the nave section, the passage is supported by huge rectangular
buttresses added to the aisle piers (Fig. 7); on the level of the attic, these buttresses are joined into arcades
by means of elliptical arches that constitute the direct support of the passage. The constructional principle
is visible to the south and east of the chancel, since there the arcades are not concealed (Fig. 8, 9). A row
of protruding wall arcades, which constitute the main element in the articulation of the nave interior
(Fig. 5, 6), is noticeable also in the central section of the edifice. All three naves are covered with barrel
11
0 10 m
1. Brochów, parish church, ground plan. Drawing by J. Adamski
after R. Kunkel, Jan Baptysta Wenecjanin, budowniczy i obywatel płocki, “Biuletyn Historii Sztuki”, 45, 1983, p. 26
2. Brochów, parish church, lateral cut. After A. Szyszko-Bohusz, Warowne zabytki architektury kościelnej w Polsce
i na Litwie. Ptkanów — Brochów - Małomeżejków - Synkowicze — Supraśl — Wilno,
“Sprawozdania Komisyi do Badania Historyi Sztuki w Polsce”, 9, 1915, col. 332-342, Fig. 7
towers on the circular ground plan, containing wide staircases in their lower sections. These staircases
lead to the level of a narrow passage, which runs within the walls of the clerestory of the main nave and
the chancel to the gallery in the eastern tower; the passage has large openings towards the interior of the
church on its entire length (Fig. 5, 6). In the nave section, the passage is supported by huge rectangular
buttresses added to the aisle piers (Fig. 7); on the level of the attic, these buttresses are joined into arcades
by means of elliptical arches that constitute the direct support of the passage. The constructional principle
is visible to the south and east of the chancel, since there the arcades are not concealed (Fig. 8, 9). A row
of protruding wall arcades, which constitute the main element in the articulation of the nave interior
(Fig. 5, 6), is noticeable also in the central section of the edifice. All three naves are covered with barrel