Rácz Tibor Ákos: A múltnak kútja. Fiatal középkoros regészek V. konferenciájának tanulmánykötete - A Ferenczy Múzeum kiadványai, A. sorozat: Monográfiák 3. (Szentendre, 2014)
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English Summaries Hella Mag The Church of Tereske in the Árpád Age In the western part of Nógrád County, in the Cserhát Mountains, in the centre of the village of Tereske there is a church that once belonged to a Benedictine abbey. Most of the medieval parts were discovered during the monument reconstruction of the building in the 1960s. Connected to the reconstruction, Károly Kozák led excavations and wall research in the church and also in the area south of it between 1962 and 1974. Earlier wall fragments and carved stones were discovered both in the sanctuary and south of the church building in small depths. Kozák, however, never published the results of his works, only short reports were released. Unlike the leading archaeologist, the former parish priest, Frigyes Pálos, who himself was an active participant of the excavations published a monograph on the church in 2000. Based on the analysis of the excavated carved stones, the archaeological report of Kozák and the work of Frigyes Pálos, it was possible to separate five construction phases of the church with certainty. The present study discusses the first two ones that date to the Árpád Age. The church in its earliest form may have been a single nave church with a flat chancel and no tower. Based on its ground plan, its construction technological features and the analogies of the stylistic motives of one tombstone discovered south of the church, the construction of the building can be dated to the midtwelfth century. It is likely that it took place before the foundation of the Benedictine abbey. Consequently, the church originally may have been built as a parish not as an abbey church. It gained its characteristic abbey church-form in the next construction phase which can be connected to the foundation of the monastery itself. This is the period when the two towers were erected at the western side along the nave and also the other buildings of the abbey discovered south of the church building can be connected to this phase. This second phase based on its similarity to other monastery ground plans — among others, the abbey churches of Kána (Budapest) and Jánosi (Rimavské Janovce, Slovakia) — can be dated to the late twelfth, early thirteenth century, but certainly to the period before the first written evidence on the monastery in 1219. 459
