Catholic parish church of the Holy Trinity, Danis

Building description

The uniformly baroque east-facing structure consists of a three-bay nave without side chapels and a recessed chancel closed on three sides, both vaulted by barrels with lunettes. The lighting differs from other Baroque buildings in that simple lunettes, i.e. not upright windows, dated 1658, also open in the wall zone.Stucco work is limited to the choir. On the chancel arch, St. Francis and Antony v.P. and angels in half relief.

Furnishings

High altar has a panel retable. The frame is decorated with volutes and angel heads. The tabernacle is a two-storey temple with twisted columns, created in 1666. Baptismal font made of red speckled marble. The pulpit is in the shape of a chest.In the sacristy there is a late Gothic wooden sculpture of St. Sebastian, a baroque chalice, a white silk casula, around 1730

Bells: Gebr. Theus Felsberg, 1656, with inscriptions.

The chapel

St. Anthony of Padua stands at right angles to the church, to the north of the forecourt. It is a square room covered with twin vaulted ceilings. The murals depict scenes from the life of the titular saint and the Old Testament. The altar dates from 1724.

From 1995-1996, the parish church, whose 1960 renovation was not satisfactory, was renovated again by the architects Fetz/Ilanz and Franz/Küsnacht/Zurich. The church was given four narrow slit windows on each side of the lower part of the outer walls and five oversized rectangular mullioned windows with soft paintings by Gody Hirschi from Root/LU in the upper part. Inside, the gabled roof-like ceiling with wooden slats, the light-colored new pews and the floor covered with light-colored stone slabs create a modern, bright church interior of rare beauty.

The parish church was consecrated on April 28, 1996 by Vitus Huonder, Vicar General of the Diocese of Chur.

(Text recorded by: Regiun Surselva)