Pfarrkirche (Senning)

The Catholic parish church of St Pankratius stands in Senning, a village in the municipality of Sierndorf in Lower Austria. Built as a fortified church around 1400, it was damaged by fire in 1544 and later rebuilt in the 18th century. The two-tiered west tower was added in 1802, and the church was restored in 1951.

The church mixes Gothic and Baroque styles. Its long nave has round-arched windows and a pointed Gothic door now bricked up. The choir is five-sided with strong buttresses and pointed windows. Inside, the nave is covered by rectangular vaults on sturdy wall pillars, while the choir has a ribbed vault with round shafts. The organ, built in 1935, has fourteen stops and a neogothic altar dates from 1905.

The churchyard surrounds the building and contains a small 19th-century chapel on the north side. The south side holds a sacristy that still shows its Gothic core. A bell cast in 1816 by Johann Caspar Hofbauer hangs in the tower, and the tower itself is capped by a bell-shaped roof added in 1950.