The church was first mentioned as early as in 1352. It was originally a Gothic style building and is consecrated to the birth of Our Lady. Its tower collapsed in 1845 and had to be rebuilt.
January the 8th 1939 –that was a very significant date for the church in Čerčany. A proposal and plans for construction of an own church in Čerčany – Hus Church were approved at an extraordinary General Meeting. After 13 years of hard work the church was inaugurated and handed over to parsons for use on Sunday, July the 20est. The building was done according to the project of Truksa, an architect from the first republic, a representative of functionalism, this building was his life work.
As the chronicle written by the so called Beneš Minorita states, the Benešov Minorite Convent was established in 1247 by a provost of the Old Boleslav canonry Tobiáš of Benešov. Tobiáš was supposed to give the new community the Benešovicové family seat that was located on a promontory, nowadays known as Karlov, above the present day town. Only the remains of the pentagonal presbytery with two gothic windows were preserved.