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The Church of the Holy Apostles Philip and James in Bukownica is a Roman Catholic parish church belonging to the parish of the same name. It is a single-nave brick structure, built around 1721 in the Baroque style, during the tenure of parish priest Wojciech Bączyński. Most of the church's furnishings are Baroque and late Baroque works from the 18th century; only some of the polychrome paintings were created in the 19th century and are characterized by eclectic elements, as are the paintings in the right side altar (from the late 19th century). They depict Jesus crucified with Mary and John standing beneath the cross (next to them is a figure of St. Veronica with a veil and an unknown woman), above them a scene of Jesus standing before Pilate (the so-called Ecce Homo), and at the very top a scene of Jesus being mocked by passersby. The left side altar features a painting of a sleeping Jacob, who sees a ladder with angels ascending it, and at its top is God the Father (hiding beneath him an image of the Archangel Raphael leading the infant Tobias). This painting is surrounded by statues of St. Nicholas and a hermit. Above them is the Virgin Mary crushing the head of the serpent, surrounded by angels. The smallest painting at the very top depicts St. Anthony receiving Holy Communion. The painting of the Virgin Mary, based on the icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa, located in the main altar is venerated in the parish as Our Lady of the Scapular, and like most of the furnishings, dates from the second half of the 18th century. It was painted in the Byzantine style, and the figures are covered in a silver robe, gilded in places. This painting obscures a very unusual painting of the Holy Family. In the Baroque style, it depicts St. Anthony. Joseph with the infant Child standing on a stool (Joseph kisses Jesus' hand), while the Mother of God watches from the background, one hand on her heart and the other slightly raised. In the lower right corner of the painting, with her back to us, sits an angel with a bouquet of roses in his hand. Numerous angelic heads and one full figure of a cherub also hover above the entire scene. Statues of bishops – St. Adalbert and St. Stanislaus – are situated at the pillars of the main altar.

The church was built as a chapel at the Salesian Monastery of St. Francis de Sales, established in 1931 on the former estate of Countess Bismarck-Bohlen. The church was rebuilt in 1936 from an old sheepfold. During the occupation, the church and other buildings were owned by the Germans. In 1950, Bishop Walenty Dymek established the parish of Christ the King, separating it from the parish of Doruchów.

The Monastery Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, along with its monastery buildings. The former Franciscan monastery complex dates back to the 17th century. Construction was carried out between 1642 and 1658. It was built of brick and rebuilt after a fire between 1733 and 1741 in a late Baroque style. The façade was restored between 1998 and 2000. The Franciscan Monastery Church – as it once was, remains the most impressive building in Grabów. The monastery church is an early Baroque church, although the church's façade and interior furnishings were modified in the late Baroque period. Its basic structure is traditional, a single-tower structure with a west-facing chancel and a tower in the eastern façade. It is a single-nave structure with a slightly narrower and lower chancel enclosed by a semicircular arch. The front of the church, wider than the nave, is enclosed by a single-towered, screen-like, seemingly modest façade. It is decorated with Tuscan pilasters, multiplied along the main axis and doubled at the corners, supporting a domineering entablature with a prominent cornice and a frieze adorned with triglyphs above the pilasters and in the central section. The façade is three-story, and on its central axis rises a tower framed by volutes, flanked by squat obelisks. The entire church building is covered by gable roofs. Inside, the elongated chancel is covered by a brick vault, adorned with modest stucco decoration. The chancel opens across its entire width, via a semicircular arcade, to the wider and higher, three-bay nave, covered by a barrel vault with lunettes. The nave walls are divided by deep (approx. 1 meter) arcade recesses and pairs of Tuscan pilasters, above which a full entablature runs the entire interior. The nave windows are set on two levels – the lower ones in deep recesses, the upper ones in disc-shaped lunettes. An additional architectural element, adding to the minimalistic architecture of the post-Franciscan church interior, is the choir loft, with its concave-convex parapet, richly decorated with profiled panels, and supported by two pillars supporting three arcades capped by a semi-circular arch.

The trunk of a fallen oak tree. Next to the trunk is an information board with the following text: "The trunk of a common oak, one of the oldest trees in the commune, has a trunk circumference of 310 cm at the anneal height, is approximately 20 m high, and has a very wide-spreading crown. It was left in the park clearing during the initial development of the park in 1830-1840. It was established as a natural monument by the decision of the Voivodeship Office in Kalisz on April 5, 1980. At least a two-hundred-year-old witness to the history of Grabów nad Prosną, felled by a storm on July 8, 2014. To make the best use of the fallen oak tree trunk, a decision was made to create a sculpture depicting the six-hundred-year history of Grabów nad Prosną. Grabów nad Prosną, May 29, 2015."