kostel svatého Jiljí (Platěnice) Church

The Church of Saint Aegidius stands in the village of Platěnice, which is part of the municipality of Moravany in the Pardubice region. It is a Baroque structure protected as a cultural monument.

The church here is first mentioned in 1350, when it belonged among the parishes transferred to the Litomyšl bishopric. In 1615 it is listed as a daughter church of Rovně. At that time, however, a different building stood here. A church inventory from 1677 describes a wooden church with a beautifully painted ceiling and a gallery, with a silver chalice and three bells. The present stone church was built in its place in 1748 according to plans by the architect Tomáš Haffenecker. In the nineteenth century it was renovated. Today it is a daughter church of the Roman Catholic parish of Horní Roveň.

The structure is oriented and modest. It consists of a choir, a four-sided nave with a barrel vault and a pyramidal tower beneath which is the gallery. The façade is complemented by a four-sided vestibule. The facades are articulated by rendered plinth, slightly profiled cornice and pilasters on the beveled corners. The nave and choir are lit on both sides by two windows topped with semicircles.

The high altar has a wooden, marble-painted mensa with a Rococo sanctuary. Above it hangs a painting of Saint Salvator of Chrudim. On the sides stand obelisks with cherubs' heads and above them winged angels who are bowing. A Latin inscription on the back states that the altar was decorated in 1780 and 1781 by the painter Matěj Pirý from Stlechlovic. On the wall behind the mensa are two marble Corinthian columns with angels and between them a painting of kneeling Saint Aegidius. Before him lies a crown and a doe pierced by an arrow, in the clouds the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child. The painting is signed by the Chrudim painter Josef Ceregetti. The altar is framed by statues of Saint Adalbert and Saint Prokop, who treads on a devil. They were created by the local-born sculptor Jakub Teplý.

A wooden pulpit from the second half of the nineteenth century is painted to resemble marble. It is decorated with symbols of the evangelists, namely an ox, a lion, an eagle and an angel, as well as the good shepherd and a figure representing faith with the Ten Commandments. In the corners of the nave stand two three-meter obelisks from the second half of the eighteenth century. On the pews of the newer gallery are three carved cartouches with scenes of the last judgment. They come from the old gallery and their author was probably also Jakub Teplý. The sacristy is entered through oak doors with a wrought lock from the eighteenth century.

Three bells hang in the tower. The oldest of them was cast in 1658 to the honor of God and Saint Gothard. It has a diameter of ninety-three centimeters and is decorated with a Latin psalm and a Czech inscription.