kostel Nejsvětější Trojice (Jenišovice) Church

The Church of the Holy Trinity stands in the center of Jenišovice in the Chrudim district. It is originally early Gothic and was built at the turn of the first and second quarter of the fourteenth century. The village itself is documented in writing as early as 1088. The parish is first mentioned in 1349 and the church in the middle of the fourteenth century. Today it is a subsidiary church of the Roman Catholic parish of Luže. Together with the bell tower and the boundary wall of the former cemetery, it has been protected as a cultural monument since 1958.

After 1585, the church burned down. In the seventeenth century, the nave was given a barrel vault with lunettes. However, during the reconstruction from 1893 to 1895, it was replaced with a flat ceiling. From the Gothic structure, a ribbed vault has been preserved in the presbytery and a Gothic western portal.

The church is single-nave and has a complexly shaped floor plan. The short rectangular nave is lit by windows with segmental arches, two from the north and one from the south. On the north side it is supported by flying buttresses. The nave is followed by an elongated pentagonal presbytery with stepped buttresses. Light enters through three tall pointed windows in deep embrasures. The presbytery is vaulted with a single bay of cross ribbed vault with a six-ribbed crown. The ribs of pear profile converge in smooth keystones. Both the nave and presbytery have separate high gabled roofs, and above the presbytery rises a slender sanctus bell turret.

On either side of the presbytery stand two single-storey barrel-vaulted annexes. One serves as a sacristy, the other is called the Mravínská chapel. Before the south entrance is a brick vestibule from 1852 with a high shed roof.

Before the western façade stands a two-storey prismatic tower with a profiled pointed portal. It rises only slightly above the church nave and ends with a pyramidal roof. Adjoining the tower is a massive bell tower with a brick ground floor, boarded bell chamber and a shingled gabled roof with a small sanctus turret. It contains two old bells. The older one was cast by Jakub Konvář from Chrudim in 1585, the younger dates from 1600 by Donát Schrotter the Younger. Another bell of unknown age was recast after being damaged in 1807. In 1850 it was replaced by a new bell, but it was requisitioned for military purposes.

The church is surrounded by a former cemetery with a boundary wall. Before the cemetery entrance stands an Empire stone cross from 1808. Part of the church's interior furnishings dates from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.