Church of Our Lady of Consolation, Pučišća

The church of Our Lady of Consolation is located in the cemetery in Pučišća on the island of Brač. It is interesting because it contains an early Christian apse and a baptistery from the 6th century. It belongs to the municipality of Pučišća in Split-Dalmatia County.

Originally it was dedicated to St Stephen. The early Christian apse with three windows and stone transennae has been preserved almost to its full height. In the pre-Romanesque remodelling the church was shortened and received blind arches that support the vault. In the 18th century the Augustinians enlarged it with a spacious nave in the west. On the south side of the present building an early Christian baptistery with a cruciform piscina has been preserved. The building thus bears witness to a long period, from the 6th to the 18th century.

The church is a protected cultural good, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-3826.

Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 hr, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: DGU (centre of the settlement).