A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 4-5. - 1961 (Nyíregyháza, 1964)
Huszár Lajos: Der Münzfund von Nyíribrony
THE REFORMED CHURCH IN TISZAVASVÁRI The reformed church in Tiszavasvári (formerly Büdszentmihály) obtained its present form after repeated extension and rebuilding in the 18th century. On its present ground-plan, by the facts and figures of the two measurings in 1752 and 1756, one can clearly recognize tne proportions of its medieval Romanesque archetype. As these particulars show the length of that old church's nave was 12 Viennese fathoms (22.68 m.) and the breadth of it —4 fathoms and 1 "sukk" pron.: "shook" —a fraction of the fathom (7.88 m.); respectively the churcn as a whole was a single-naved one, its axis north-east south-west directed, with semicircular termination. The dimensions of the termination can't be determined but hypothetically. The southeastern wall of the church of today stands upon the medieval basement while the lines of the northwestern and the south-western walls of the Romanesque edifice are shown by the pillars holding the choir today (pict.6). The medieval church was built in the decades after 1250; in 1319, without any doubt, it was already finished. The patron saint of the village was St. Michael, the church's former name was taken from him. This medieval structure, as late as in 1743, was still onely repaired; in 1755—56, however, its walls were rebuilt on the old basement and in 1760, to the south-eastern end of it yet separately from its very body, its present bell was thrown out; a life time later, in 1788-89 exactly, the space between the bell and the medieval church was built in and on the north-eastern side, after demolishing the medieval wall, the interior became considerably enlarged. As a result of this extension can we now see in the present church that vaulted line of choirs running around on the south-east, north-west, and north-east sides. The church standing on a man-made hillock was —in 1791—surrounded with a rectangled stone-wall, on each corner of wich there was a casamated bastion erected, i.e. four together, every one with circular ground-plan and loop-holes, serving for all that merely as granaries. A part of the stone-wall and two of the bastions continue to exist even today (XII.t.2., XIII.t.1., pict.27). The names of the masters or craftsmen who took part in these buildings are unkown for the most part. Furnishings in the church: very plain (XIII.t.2). The ecclesiastical objects —except a single one, a Renaissance silver cup from the 17th century —date from the end of the 18th century: works of unkown tinsmiths of Debrecen (XV—XVI. t). 1. Balogh • 77
