The Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Gogolice is a stone temple from the 13th century, preserved in a compact hall form. It is distinguished by a half-timbered tower from the 18th century and a neo-Gothic porch added in the 19th century. Inside, it is worth paying attention to the choir galleries and the neo-Gothic altar, as well as the beamed ceiling from the same period. The church is surrounded by a former cemetery with a stone wall, which emphasizes the historical character of the place.
The Gogolice church dedicated to Our Lady of Częstochowa is situated on a small hill, in the south-eastern part of the village, at the intersection of roads from Rosnów, Narost and Chełm Dolny. It was originally surrounded by a cemetery, fenced with a stone and brick wall. The Romanesque church made of granite stone dates back to the 2nd half of the 13th century, aisleless, on a rectangular plan measuring 11.20 x 20.45 m, without a choir, tower, pointed arch western and southern portals with offsets, a simple, closed eastern wall with rebuilt window openings, a single-space interior, thick walls with a regular pattern of worked sections in the face. During the Pomeranian-Marchian fights, the church was destroyed. In 1580, it was described as abandoned, without a roof. The church was rebuilt two years later. In 1596, a parish priest took up residence at the church. The first mention of the church in Gogolice dates back to 1337.
In the first half of the 18th century, the church was rebuilt and Baroqued. The crown of the walls was raised, some of the window openings were transformed by widening them and closing them with a segmental arch; a brick, plastered eastern gable was erected, and a wooden turret was added, rising from the body of the church. At that time, a tower was also built over the western part of the church, and a choir gallery was suspended inside. Further renovations took place in 1803 and 1876. The latter date is associated with the addition of the porch and the renovation of the tower that had been destroyed by fire.
The Gogolice church is a very interesting architectural form. A narrower and lower porch adjoins the western wall. The roofs of the church and porch are gabled, covered with ceramic roof tiles. In the western part, there is a single-storey tower, above which there is a spire covered with sheet metal. The walls of the temple are made of regularly processed granite blocks, bonded with lime mortar, in the crown of the walls supplemented with layers of bricks, plastered from the inside. The eastern gable is plastered on both sides. The ceiling in the church - beamed with a lower ceiling, in the porch - with a plastered soffit. The window openings are splayed on both sides, closed with a segmental arch; in the eastern wall, in the corner of the southern wall and in the porch - pointed arches; in the western gable - small rectangular windows, in the eastern, in a shallow niche, an oval ventilator. The church is entered from the west through the porch. Inside there is a neo-Gothic altar from the second half of the 19th century, a beamed ceiling and a choir gallery from the 19th century.
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