A wooden church from 1748 with a bell tower from 1846, a Gothic triptych and Rococo altars; on the Wooden Architecture Route.
St James's Church in Więcławice Stare is a wooden parish church, regarded as a shrine, in Michałowice municipality near Kraków. Together with the bell tower and its surroundings it is entered in the heritage register.
The church was built in 1748 by the carpenter Mateusz Wydolny. It was consecrated in 1757 after a thorough renovation, and in 1868 a sacristy was added on the south side. It has a larch-timber structure on a stone foundation, a single nave and a rectangular chancel closed on three sides. Next to it stands a wooden bell tower from 1846.
Inside there are three Rococo altars from the mid-18th century, a Gothic triptych of St Nicholas from 1477 and a Late Gothic sculpture of the Madonna and Child from around 1410.
The church lies on the Lesser Poland Way of St James and belongs to the Wooden Architecture Route of Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It can be reached from Kraków in a short time, and nearby, about 5 km from the church, is Zesławice Reservoir.
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