Another Romanesque church dedicated to St Giles

This is how coincidences work - holding the conscious universe together... last week I came across a Romanesque church named for Święty Idzi (St Giles) - and today I came across another. This one is located in the village (former town) of Inowłódź (Moni suggested I pay a visit while exploring the DK48 road). Atop a small hill, a short, sharp eight metres climb from the road, the church is a remarkable building, having survived so many invasions (the Mongol invasion of 1241 saw the destruction of a nearby Benedictine nunnery). The cross in the foreground of the picture below commemorates the parish priest who died in 1911; the cross is pocked with bullet holes.

Below: view of the south-east side of the church, completed no later than 1138, the typical rounded arches of typical of Romanesque (which came before the pointy-arched Gothic style) are visible.

Below: the north-east side, viewed from the cemetery. The church is only open for worship on Sundays in summer. 880-year-old brickwork! If the sight looks familiar to Polish readers, it may be because it has frequently been used as a film set and has appeared in Wajda's Popioły, Hoffman's Pan Wołodyjowski, the comedy Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową and in the 1973 war film Hubal, as well as in episodes of TV series Cztery Pancerni i Pies. There is a sign by the main gate forbidding the use of the church grounds for wedding photos or any other form of commercial photography, so the administration is used to dealing with the creative industries!

Back to last Tuesday - St Giles' Church, (kościół Św. Idziego), Ostrów Tumski, Wrocław. Not quite as old, 1281 is the first mention. 

Giles is an uncommon name in Britain, but Idzi is almost unknown in Poland (I've met a few Gileses in my lifetime, but I've never met an Idzi!).

This time two years ago:

Armed forces day flypast seen from Jeziorki

This time four years ago:

The ground parade part one: 1939

The flypast

This time seven years ago:
Dworzec Zachodni ('West Wailway Shtation') before the remont

This time eight years ago: 
90 years ago today - Bolsheviks stopped at the gates of Warsaw 

This time nine years ago: 
Kestrel 

This time 11 years ago: 
Armed forces day parade in Warsaw