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The Chapel of the Holy Trinity is one of the most valuable and interesting monuments of medieval art in Poland and Europe. Here, East and West cultures met and coexist. Inside this Gothic temple in 1418. Priceless Byzantine-Ruthenian paintings were made. The chapel, unique on a European scale, is a great attraction for lovers and experts of historical monuments, architecture and painting. The chapel was probably built before 1327, when it was already mentioned as belonging to the castle. In the fourteenth century, the church was a single-storey building with a crypt. It had a nave and a polygonal presbytery that lay in the perimeter of the defensive walls. In 1407, at the initiative of Władysław Jagiełło, it was rebuilt in the Gothic style. After raising the walls, a two-story temple with a former crypt was created. The church was dominated by two steep, stepped gables, which survived until the 1750s. The lower floor was intended for the crypt for deceased chaplains and local... wyświetl cały opis

The Chapel of the Holy Trinity is one of the most valuable and interesting monuments of medieval art in Poland and Europe. Here, East and West cultures met and coexist. Inside this Gothic temple in 1418. Priceless Byzantine-Ruthenian paintings were made. The chapel, unique on a European scale, is a great attraction for lovers and experts of historical monuments, architecture and painting. The chapel was probably built before 1327, when it was already mentioned as belonging to the castle. In the fourteenth century, the church was a single-storey building with a crypt. It had a nave and a polygonal presbytery that lay in the perimeter of the defensive walls. In 1407, at the initiative of Władysław Jagiełło, it was rebuilt in the Gothic style. After raising the walls, a two-story temple with a former crypt was created. The church was dominated by two steep, stepped gables, which survived until the 1750s. The lower floor was intended for the crypt for deceased chaplains and local dignitaries, and the upper floor for religious needs. The polygonal presbytery and the square nave were ribbed. The nave's vault was supported by a centrally embedded pillar. This structural element was typical for sacred and secular architecture during the reign of Casimir the Great. During the Renaissance, the church was still Gothic, although the entrance was placed on the first floor level and included in a new Renaissance portal, made in the Komasków stonemason's workshop. It was not until the 17th century that the facade of the temple was crowned with a gable in the Lublin Renaissance style. In the second decade of the fifteenth century, painting work was undertaken inside the church. They were made by an anonymous team of Russian painters led by master Andrzej. The walls and vault were covered with polychrome in the Ruthenian-Byzantine style. The paintings were completed in 1418, which was recorded in Cyrillic on the foundation board in the rainbow arch of the church. In addition to religious scenes adorning the interior of the church, there are two portraits of Władysław Jagiełło. The polychrome was made with various techniques: dry and wet plaster, tempera paints. During the work on the new prison building, in the years 1823-1826, the church was connected with neo-Gothic buildings and became a prison chapel. From the outside and inside, it was plastered, which destroyed priceless paintings. At the end of the 19th century, the prison chapel underwent minor changes: the external stairs were dismantled and the portal was turned into a window. In 1897 Józef Smoliński discovered fragments of the 15th-century polychrome. In the years 1917-1918 further parts of the paintings were unveiled.

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