Bell

A brass bell from the equipment of the castle chapel, from the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, from the collection of the Potocki family. The bell is cup-shaped, flared towards the bottom and finished with a profiled rim. The top of the bell mantle transitions into a flattened nodus, ending in a handle and decorated with scrolls on the sides. The handle is decorated with a floral ornament, the bell mantle is decorated at the top and at the bottom with a strip of (ritual) floral-scroll ornament. On both sides of the waist there is a decoration of overlapping wings embracing a circular decorative element. Inside the bell, the heart is suspended on a wire. The present castle chapel was arranged on the ground floor in 1885 (after moving from the first floor). The services were held there, attended by the inhabitants and their guests and conducted by the castle chaplain. The furnishings of the former chapel were partly taken away by the last Lord Ordynat in 1944, but an altar cabinet has survived, as well as some of the church apparatus, post-mortem photographs, a missal, permits to hold services (issued by the appropriate church authorities) and furniture and several mementoes related to the Potocki family. In 2001, the ashes of members of the Potocki family who died abroad were displayed in the chapel: Alfred, the last Lord Ordynat , his brother Jerzy, Jerzy’s wife, and Alfred and Jerzy’s mother, Elżbieta Potocka, née Radziwiłł. The coffins containing their ashes rested in the family crypt in the parish church in Łańcut.