Haris Andrea szerk.: Koldulórendi építészet a középkori Magyarországon Tanulmányok (Művészettörténet - műemlékvédelem 7. Országos Műemlékvédelmi Hivatal,)

Lukács Zsuzsa: Előzetes beszámoló a Szeged-alsóvárosi ferences kolostor kutatásáról

jambs and flat arched heads chamfered later and the inwardly widening openings were relieved inside by semicircular rear arches.) On the upper floor of the western wing we have found the traces of most of the mediaeval partition walls. These confirmed the hypothesis of a system of cells with a corridor in the middle. The corridor was illiminated from the south through a large Gothic cross-window, with a stone frame with roll-moulding rising from a twisted base. A part of the window was uncovered in situ. Since this type of windows cannot be dated before the 1480s, the deed of foundation of an Observant Monastery, issued in 1459, cannot be associated with this building. Each of the cells along the corridor received light through two windows: a larger one and a smaller one, the latter placed higher. On the south side of the western wing, at ground level, we uncovered the remains of one large stone-framed window, and three more on the south end of its western facade. (The latter ones were shown in the engraving made in 1713.) Some fragments of the missing stone frames were recovered from secondary sites. These resembled the frames of the southern window of the central corridor on the first floor. We assume that these decorated windows served to illuminate the earliest chapter-house on the south section of the western wing. We discovered a series of putlog holes secondary compared to the wall, on the western wing's facade facing the courtyard, at a height between the ground floor and the first floor, and also at the level of the smaller windows on the first floor. (Most of these were demolished on the eastern side.) According to the evidence of these putlog holes, the hall timbered corridor also ran along the western wing. (Its foundation was marked on the plan of 1713.) Later surveys proved that this corridor was built at the same time as the partly mediaeval northern wing, belonging to the first period of the latter, but later than the western wing. The corridor started out from the north, ran in front of the western wing, and reached the monks' choir after passing the north side of the church. Summing up the architectural history of the monastery and the church, it went as follows: the western wing of the monastery was built in the vicinity of the 13th century St. Peter's Church. Then the construction of the Church of St. Mary of the Snow began, to be completed on August 5. 1503, parallel with the demolition of the St. Peter's Church (which had already begun at the time of building the choir), the tower and the chapter-house were built. By 1543 the tower was completed only up to the first floor. Between 1459 and 1543 the northern wing of the monastery was also completed, together with the half timbered corridor of the cloister garth. Later, sometime before 1713, the interior of the mediaeval north wing was rebuilt and a refectory was added from the east. The monastery building around the quadrangle, the uniform desing of the internal plan and the tower were all completed already in the 18th century. The excavation of this mediaeval monastery led to the addition of another interesting entry to the treasure-house of Hungarian architectural history. Its main importance lies in the fact that, apart from the Dominican Monastery of Vasvár, this is the only one-storey mendicant monastery still standing in Hungary. Illustrations 1. Szeged in 1698. 2. The monastery from the north-west, 1713. 3. The plan of the monastery, 1713. 4. The monastery at the end of the 18tih century. Etching by János Fülöp Binder