Church of St Anthony, Bol

The church of St Anthony, formerly dedicated to St Bernardine, stands in a prominent place above the Loža in Bol on the island of Brač. It is interesting to visitors because the interior has deliberately been left unplastered. It belongs to the town of Bol in Split-Dalmatia County.

It was built at the beginning of the 16th century. It is single-nave, with a rectangular apse and a Gothic pointed vault, and a square chapel was added on the south side. The Renaissance stone façade has a symmetrical arrangement of openings; above the door is a window in the form of a pierced quatrefoil, and at the top a tall stone bell gable. The rustic altar has a painted wooden antependium with the figure of St Bernardine. On the main altar is a lunette of the Mother of God with saints by the painter Marinković from 1771.

The church is a protected cultural good, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-4330.

Photo: Mrcsifkin, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).