Interior of the church


The current interior of the church is divided in a natural way into the sanctuary and the nave and two aisles. The flat ceiling, as well as the roof structure, rest on the walls and on six (three on the right and three on the left) wooden pillars with Doric styled caps.

In the back of the church there is a choir area supported by two pillars. Between the sanctuary and the nave is the so-called rainbow, i.e. the beam on which the great cross from around 1690 is placed, with the image of Jesus crucified. The walls are reinforced and covered with shingles. In the sanctuary there are four Gothic windows enclosed by an arc in the shape of a donkey’s back, beveled, while rectangular windows in the aisle. The outside walls are reinforced and shingled. Under the eaves of the sanctuary roof, decorative, beveled brackets (also visible in the attic from the north, above the sacristy and in the aisle above the glare).

Particularly noteworthy is the equipment of the church – exceptionally rich, and at the same time complete, which shows the way in which the medieval shrine was furnished, adapting to its interior objects inconsistent, neither temporally nor stylistically, and yet coexisting with each other and corresponding to the peak phases of the development of art in the most important artistic centers

Quite detailed information about the church and parish church in Golów is given to the visit of Bishop Sierakowski from 1745. It allows you to determine the appearance and furnishing of the church. In this description, among others we read that:

Visited in 1745, the church was a wooden building on a stone foundation with a shingle roof, on which there was a turret with a tower. The floor of the church was a stone floor. The ceiling was painted. A bell tower, covered with shingles and two bells, stood in front of the entrance. The great altar, carved in a tree, housed a painting depicting the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A tabernacle was also carved in the tree. There was an entrance door on both sides of the altar. At the steps of the great altar, on the side of the gospel (ie on the left side) a piscine (stone basin) with a covering was dug into the earth. In addition to the altar, the great church also had four side altars – the altar of Our Lady of Częstochowa painted white paint, St. Barbara in red, St. Joseph – in blue and a very old altar with a picture of the bishop also painted blue. All the altars were carved in wood. At the wall, on the gospel side, there was a wooden pulpit painted red. By her stood a stone baptismal font with a cauldron, covered with a wooden lid covered with an iron rod. Between the sanctuary and the nave, there was a “rainbow” with a cross and the image of Christ, two figures of saints on both sides of the cross, an eight-part organ with two bellows set on the wooden choir. In addition, the interior of the church was filled with 13 wooden benches and one confessional. All five windows were bound in lead. In the wooden sacristy with two windows in lead bound and barred, stood a wooden table with cabinets and drawers for dishes and liturgical vestments.

This was how the church looked in 1745, but it changed after the expansion in 1885-1887.

In the whole interior of the church after 1887, when works related to the enlargement of the church were completed, a new polychrome was made, the author of which is the painter from Rzeszów, Jan Tabiński. Walls and ceilings cover painted architectural divisions with ornamental decoration and historicizing figural scenes.

A polychrome in the sanctuary is created by four paintings on the walls, painted in 1931 by the painter Marian Stroński. They correspond to the style of Young Poland, modeled on the environment of Krakow artists. These are:
a. The last supper – according to the French school,
b. Saint Francis of Assisi,
c. Saint John of God,
d. Heart of Jesus

On a flat ceiling of the sanctuary, we can see a large picture of Our Lady of the Immaculate. On the eastern side, the sanctuary is closed by a three-sided apse. After removing the secondary repairs, fragments of the original Gothic painting decoration were unveiled there. On the south-eastern wall, probably the earliest embrace and a fragment of the decoration resembling a kind of curtain are clearly visible. In the upper part, the outlines of the human figure are visible. In other places, traces of the original polychromy in the form of frame divisions (black, brown) and plant ornaments (white on a gray background) are noticeable. On this decoration, traces of the second chronological layer from around 1589 were also discovered.

In the aisle, the polychrome consists of two large paintings on the ceiling:
a. Christ with the Evangelists,
b. The crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Holy Trinity

Probably they are not authored by Jan Tabiński, because others similar in stylistics were discovered under existing paintings. They are located both on the ceiling in the original part of the church, as well as in the built-up in 1885-87. Since Jan Tabiński painted the church after enlargement, his paintings should be the first layer in the added part of the church, and here it turns out that the visible image of the crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Holy Trinity is not directly on the wood, but there is another, older picture under it. Perhaps, therefore, the paintings painted by Tabiński in about 1887 are now under the visible paintings, which are perhaps authored by Marian Stroński, a painter from Przemyśl.

On the walls behind the altar of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Barbara preserved (unpainted) original, Gothic, paintings directly on wood. Fragments of various scenes are visible, including two figures, plant elements, divisions, fragments of letters and the figure of a devil breathing fire.

Behind the altar of St. Barbara kept the inscription:

In 1887 the church was painted. The host Jan Mendyka from Debrze n. 57

However, at the altar of St. Barbara from the back has an inscription written in pencil with the following:

Jan Mendyka repaired from the debts of Golcowa nro 57 in 1880

On the boards, on which the image was stretched the Mother of God with Joachim and Anna, from the back an inscription in pencil was found:

The painting was renewed by Jan Mendyka from Golcowa from Debrze in 1882 6/9 ty 1882 was painted in 1624

There are four easel paintings on the walls of the nave:
a. Mother of God Jackowa – picture from 1768, presents the Mother of God sitting on the throne with the Infant on her knees, in the crowns on her head, there is oil on canvas,
b. St. Barbara – a painting from 1850, depicts a standing figure of a saint in a long dress, a coat and a crown on his head, with a palm in his left hand and a chalice with a host on the right and a tower on a background of a schematic landscape with a genre scene in the distance, it is oil on canvas,
c. St. Hyacinth – painting from the turn of the seventeenth / eighteenth century, depicts the standing figure of a saint in a Dominican habit and stole, with a monstrance in his right hand and a figurine of the Mother of God with the Child in the left on the background of a flat landscape, it is oil on canvas,
d. St. Stanislaus Kostka – painting from the end of the 17th century, depicts a kneeling figure of a saint receiving the communion of Saint. from the angels and the Mother of God in the clouds and the figure of a kneeling founder with the coat of arms Snake and the letters I C P G, it is oil on canvas,

Inside the church there are four altars: the main altar, two side altars and the altar of Infant Jesus in the sanctuary.

In the sanctuary on the eastern wall there is the main altar from 1628, in the style similar to the Romanesque style, rebuilt in 1785, decorated with numerous sculptures. At the top there is a small picture of the Holy Trinity, on the sides there are sculptures of St. Lawrence and St. Stanisław Bishop also from 1628.

In the middle part there are three images:
- a permanent picture – the Mother of God with Joachim and Anna – from 1628, presents Joachim and Anna with a small Mary in the middle and God the Father in the clouds above them and the Holy Ghost Dove. It is oil on canvas.
- picture of the Holy Family, on the curtain – from about 1750 – presents Mary spinning thread, standing figure of baby Jesus with a cross in his left hand and Joseph wood working, against a landscape with brick architecture. It is oil on canvas.
- image of Our Lady of Sorrows, on the bolt, bearing the reference number in the lower left corner: Z. Bogdański. 1952 Domaradz, purchased in 1956, depicts the figure of a sorrowful Mother of God, and seven hearts of sorrow swords stuck in her heart, in the background a view of Jerusalem and a cross on Golgotha. It is oil on canvas.

Below the pictures there is a tabernacle from about 1756, the upper part of which is revolving. In it there is a cross with the image of Christ. On the sides there are small figures of angels.

On both sides of the main painting there are two gilded columns, finished with carved heads, and between them, in the hollows, two carved statues of Saints Peter and Paul – from the early nineteenth century. On both sides of the setting there are richly carved ornaments and sculptures of angels from around 1756.

Altar table, or so-called mensa is of one piece of stone, covered with wood.
Below, is an antependium which represents a heart burning with a thorny crown, topped with a flame of fire and a cross in the center, surrounded by a plant shoot and kneeling winged figures of angels. This is a picture – oil on canvas from the early nineteenth century.

In the right nave of the church there is the side altar dedicated to the church. Our Lady of Perpetual Help from 1628 and rebuilt in 1720. It has a built-in tabernacle and richly gilded and carved columns. In the main field there is a picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Help painted on a lime board, gilded. On the gate there is a painting of Saint Joseph painted on canvas, by a painter from the Society of Fine Arts of St. Luke in Krakow Antoni Zembaczyński in 1890.

In the left nave of the church is the side altar pw. St. Barbara, from 1628 and rebuilt in 1720. The image is visible in the main field of the setting of St. Barbara – patron of the church in a wooden gilded dress. The painting shows a standing figure of a saint in a long dress and a crown on his head, with a palm in his left hand and a chalice in the right, against the background of a schematic landscape with a tower. It is oil on canvas from 1628, a dress from 1720. On the curtain there is a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Saint. Małgorzata Maria Alacoque, donated by the vicar priest, priest Maksymilian Hajduk in 1888. This painting was painted by Antoni Zembczyński from Krakow. On both sides of the painting there are four columns, gilded, with a rich carved ornament. At the top of the altar there are two figures of angels from 1720.

Next to the altar on the console finished with a pin, there is a statue of the Mother of God with the Child from the 1920s, made of wood.

On the southern wall of the sancturary there is the side altar of the Baby Jesus – in the pseudo-baroque style. In its main field there is a niche enclosed with Corinthian columns with a figure of the Infant Jesus dressed in robes with a crown on his head. This figurine is a copy of the miraculous statue of Jesus – so-called Jezulatka located in the Carmelite Sanctuary of the Infant Jesus in Prague. In the upper part of the altar, in the main field, a painted image of the bust of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus. The Altar of the Infant Jesus was made by the carpenter Michał Tomon from Gwoźnica Dolna in 1948-49 at the request of Tadeusz Świrad, priest at the time, at the instigation of Maria Śmigiel, an inhabitant of Golcowa, who funded both the Baby Jesus figurine and the altar itself. She herself was a devout worshiper of Baby Jesus throughout her entire life and a great propagator of this cult throughout the parish, and she especially mobilized children and young people to worship the Child Jesus. The very vivid cult of the Infant Jesus survived to the present times both among parishioners, as well as among those who come from Golcowa, and now live in other areas of Poland, and even abroad.

On the northern wall of the presbytery there is the pulpit – in the Baroque style, from 1628. Between the five gold-plated columns are pictures of four Evangelists. A painted representation of Jesus in Christoforos style in the back.

In the church there is a late-Gothic baptismal font from the end of the 15th century, made of stone (sandstone), bell type, polygonal. Cover of the font (from around 1720), baroque, gilded in the shape of a flattened sphere made of acanthus leaves, supported on a polygonal basis. In the finale, he depicts the scene of the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan.

In the sanctuary, we see a two-sided Feretory – on the reverse: Our Lady of the Rosary and on the obverse: the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a frame with a chiropractic and cartilaginous ornament, woodcarving and gold plated. Frame comes from the 30s of the seventeenth century. Paintings oil-painted on canvas by Michał Wróblewski around 1850.

In the sacristy we can see the wooden figure of the Risen Christ – from the 19th century. It is a standing figure in a cloak tilted diagonally from the left shoulder, with a banner in his left hand and with a right raised in a gesture of victory.

On the sanctuary wall hangs the Crucifix – circa 1850, depicts the figure of Christ stretched out on the cross of the cross. The arms of the cross are finished with a three-point. Christ’s head tilted to the right, hips shielded by a long perizonium connected to the right. Crown of thorns on its head. In the upper part of the cross titulus with the inscription INRI.

The spider is suspended in the aisle – from the beginning of Nineteenth century, three-story, it has a universal form. Its construction is based on two hoops, around which there are candlesticks. The outlines of that make up consists of runoffs of crystals that form a shelf in the lower part. It is made of bronze and Polish crystal.

In the choir there is an organ prospectus – dated after 1800. On the pediment there is an angel statue with a trumpet from the 17th century.

Inside there is an pipe organ – 10-voice company of Jan Śliwiński from Lviv purchased in 1954 from the church in Frysztak. Tin pipes. The current one is under renovation.

On the walls of the nave of the church there are the Stations of the Cross – made of terracotta, bought in 1933 in Piekary in Silesia.

Belfry – Behind the sanctuary, from the east side, in the fence of the church square, there is a brick belfry from 1903. It is a screen belfry, on the projection of an elongated rectangle, a 3-span constructed of ceramic bricks on a base faced with sandstone, covered with a hipped tin roof, in which three bells are mounted on steel rails. In 2013-2014 thoroughly renovated from the foundations to the roof.

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