kaple svatého Vincence Ferrerského v Sebuzíně Chapel

The Chapel of Saint Vincent Ferrer in Sebuzín is a late baroque building from seventeen forty-five. It is dedicated to the Spanish Dominican preacher Vincent of Ferrera, it belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Církvice and is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

The chapel stands in the middle of the original village square, in undulating terrain that slopes upward to the south. It is not oriented to the east, as is customary for churches. The main facade faces north. The nave has an almost square ground plan, is four hundred and fifty-four centimeters long and four hundred and seventy centimeters wide. It is followed by a semicircularly closed apse that is one hundred and forty centimeters deep. A pitched roof covered with fired tiles rises above it, and a six-sided wooden sheet-metal bell tower with an onion dome and cross protrudes from its end.

The northern facade is the richest in decoration. It is articulated by corner pilasters and a rectangular portal with a stucco frame that has so-called ears in its upper corners. Above the entrance, in an oval niche, is a sculpture of the Madonna with child. The facade is topped by a volute gable, and in its center, in a semicircularly arched niche, sits a stone figure of Christ the Suffering, an iconographic type called Ecce homo. He holds his head with a crown of thorns in his hands. One description of it says that his expression seems to convey doubt as to whether sinful and ungrateful mankind is worth the sacrifice.

The sides of the chapel are modest. They have unadorned pilasters and rectangular windows, a profiled cornice runs around the entire building. Inside is a concrete floor and a flat wooden painted ceiling. In the apse is an altar niche and the chapel's furnishings have the character of folk art.

The chapel underwent a major renovation in eighteen seventy-four. Further repairs followed in nineteen ninety-five, two thousand and eleven, and two thousand and twenty. In May two thousand and twenty-four, a complete renovation of the chapel and its surroundings took place, paid for by the Střekov city district. It was mainly about protecting the building from moisture, improving the surfaces around the chapel and the space in front of it, and renovating the interior.

The area around the chapel lies in the protected landscape area of České středohoří. It changed significantly with the construction of a roundabout and a new road into Tlučeňské údolí. This replaced a narrow and busy road that drivers used as a shortcut to Litoměřice.