Plock Cathedral

Plock Cathedral or the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Masovia, in Plock, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Poland, an example of Romanesque architecture. It is the oldest and most essential historical monument within the town, which contains some of tombs of Polish monarchs. The bishopric in Plock become based about 1075. The first precise connection with the cathedral is in 1102, while Wladyslaw I Herman became buried there. The gift Romanesque cathedral became built after 1129 with the aid of Prince Boleslaw III and Bishop Alexander of Malone. This was a rebuilding following a fireplace and took from 1136 until 1144. It was consecrated in 1144 as the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The authentic bronze doors of the Romanesque cathedral have figurative bas-reliefs depicting the verses of the so known as Roman Confession of Faith and the discern of Alexander of Malone, bishop of Plock. The doorways were made inside the Magdeburg workshop about 1150. In the cathedral there may be now a bronze duplicate of the doorways, made within the 1980s. In the Royal Chapel on the north facet of the cathedral is a marble sarcophagus forming the tomb of two Polish rulers, Wladyslaw I Herman and his son Boleslaw III Wrymouth.