Church of the Holy Spirit, Šibenik

The church of the Holy Spirit in Šibenik is a picturesque example of a church that changed style through the centuries. It is located in Šibenik-Knin County and was built from the 13th to the 17th century.

Originally Romanesque, the church was later remodelled in the Gothic spirit, and in the 17th century A. Nogulović built the main façade in the late Renaissance style. It is single-nave and irregularly oriented, with a square apse and a rectangular sacristy, all three spaces covered with Gothic vaulting. Beside the church is the confraternity hall, connected to the choir by a Gothic-Renaissance balustrade. The façade has a semicircular gable with two corner pilasters, a portal with a triangular pediment, four profiled windows, a Baroque bell gable with two bells, and a decorative rosette. A Romanesque door with traces of a fresco in the lunette has also been preserved.

The church is a protected cultural good, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-2034.

Photo: SchiDD, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: Wikidata (CC0).