A wooden parish church from 1728, rebuilt in 1782-1787, with Baroque altars and a bell tower from 1808.
The Church of St Giles in Podlesie, in Lelów municipality, is a wooden 18th-century parish church on the wooden architecture trail of the Silesian Voivodeship.
The first mentions of a church in Podlesie date from 1325 and 1470. An earlier church was burned by the Swedes in 1657. The present church was built in 1728, funded by Aleksander Tęgoborski, then owner of the village. Between 1782 and 1787 it was rebuilt so thoroughly that it was almost built anew, with the help of Aleksander Potocki, patron of the church.
The church is of log construction, clad with boards and set on a foundation wall. The shingle gable roofs are separate over the nave and over the chancel, and in the roof of the nave sits a turret for the ridge bell. The gable of the façade is clad with boards laid in a herringbone pattern. A rare solution in wooden churches is the sacristy placed directly behind the chancel, as its extension. The rood beam takes the form of two volutes, and the high altar and two side altars date from the 18th century.
Next to the church stands a free-standing wooden bell tower from 1808, with the year carved above the door. In the area lie the synagogue in Lelów and the Church of St Martin in Lelów.
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