At the Narutowicza street, next to the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady of Victory, stands a memorial to Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584). It was executed by Franciszek Strynkiewicz on the occassion of the 400th anniversary of the birth of the writer. It was originally situated in the Old Town, next to the Crown Tribunal.

Jan Kochanowski was an outstanding Polish poet of the pre-partition era. He frequently visited Lublin, especially as a courtier of Jan Firlej, the Voivode of Lublin, and as a royal secretary he had an opportunity to be a witness of the feudal homage paid to King Sigismund Augustus by the Prussian prince Albrecht Hohenzollern on July 19, 1569. Kochanowski made a significant contribution to the preparation of the Sejm in Lublin, during which the Polish-Lithuanian Union was concluded. He mentioned these events in his poems. This is one of the reasons why the Nazis ordered to destroy the monument, which, fortunately, was hidden by Polish patriots: engineer. H. Zamorowski from the City Hall and a stonemason S. Lis. In 1951, the obelisk was taken out from its hideout and put in its present place.