St. Procopius Church, Žďár nad Sázavou
It is possible, that there was a church standing at this place already in 1270, but the first trustworthy mention is dated back to 1391, written by a priest called Svatoslav.
The oldest walls of the church are situated in the southern part of the main nave and in the chancel.
The church had two sacristies and four altars (St. Mary, St. Anne, St. Thomas, and St. Procopius).
The front façade in the west has three-part apex windows with a tracery.
The lateral walls of the nave contain two pairs of apex windows decorated by a tracery consisting of small flames.
We can find the coat of arms of the house of Lichtenburks here and an inscription dated back to the late Gothic period.
Both naves are separated by two octagonal pillars that carry the weight of the arch.
The pillars are decorated by paintings, which resemble the construction block stones.
The narrower northern nave is vaulted by three bays of a crossing arch.
The groins are finished on the three-part piers with heraldic elements and decorated by paintings.
The heraldic symbols are the seven coats of arms of the founders and builders of the local monastery.
The other coats of arms belong to the house of Lichtenburks (two crossed "ostrve" - branches used as a ladder), to Boček of Obřany (the eagle), to the house of Kunštát (black stripes), to the duke of Münsterberk (the Silesian eagle carrying a jewel with black stripes on its chest).
Piers in the eastern part of the chancel are finished in about half of the wall above the ground.
The most important properties of the church are the baptismal font (1624) and the altar of Our Lady from 15th century.
There are also fifteen stops of the way of the cross by the academic sculptor Karel Stádník who also created the sculpture Man of Sorrows, which can be found standing near the southern wall of the chancel, very close to the baptistery.
The pulpit is decorated with the boards of Ten Commandments and the sculpture of Jesus Christ at the top.
The new main front-facing altar with the remains of St. Procopius was created by Karel Stádník in 1984.
