Summary
The Church of St Peter in Nerežišća is a single-nave Gothic building from the 13th and 14th centuries. Its altar holds Nikola Lazanić’s relief of the Coronation of the Virgin with St Peter and St Paul, dated 1578.
This is the Church of St Peter in Nerežišća, separate from St Peter’s in Dol and other churches on Brač of the same dedication.
History and purpose
The Church of St Peter in Nerežišća’s historic centre is dated to the 13th and 14th centuries. It belongs to the village’s group of Gothic churches and has its own protected status.
Structure and traces of the past
The single-nave building with a semicircular apse is built in regular courses of partly dressed stone and roofed with stone slabs. Its façade has a double lintel with a Gothic lunette and a relief cross in a medallion; a Gothic bell gable crowns the gable wall. The interior has a pointed vault. On the altar is a Renaissance relief of the Coronation of the Virgin with St Peter and St Paul, made by Nikola Lazanić in 1578.
Access and visiting
The church stands within the village. Check access to the interior and its current condition before visiting.
