Renovation of a Sacred Object Made of Limestone, Adapting It to the Conditions of Contemporary Use

The paper presents a selected sacral object built of limestone located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland in the town of Kalej. It is an interesting object of local religious culture worth recording in the literature due to its unique character and scarce publicly available information about it. The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland is located in southern Poland, in the upper Vistula and upper Warta river basins, also called the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, and covers an area of 2615km2. This area was formed in the Mesozoic era in the Jurassic period and is characterized by the occurrence of sedimentary rocks in the form of limestone. In the Jurassic area, limestone was once the basic building material characterized by high durability and exceptional colors. It was commonly used to build monumental castles, churches, and residential and farm buildings. The paper presents a historical outline of the construction of the sacral object and the maintenance and modernization works performed over the years to adapt it to the current conditions of use and religious worship.