F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1992/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1992)

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Gyulafi Rátót and Rozgonyi families. The church is mentioned again in 1519. In a 1548 tax conscription the village is said to have been burnt by the Turks. The church was desolated for a long time until eventually the Cal vinists took it over in the 18th century. Freceding the renovation of the church, a scientific investigation of the building was carried out by the Inspactorate of Historic Monuments in 1984 -1985 and in 1991. The church is east orientated, had a single nave and a sanctuary with a horse-shoe layout in the interior and a straight chevet on the outside. The tower at the west end is as wide as the nave and is erected over a square ground plan. The wide walls of the early church were built of white ashlar blocks, on a narrow foundation. The entrance was on the south side, and light was provided by the three, semicircular windows with trumpen splaying, cut high up in the south wall. The two window in the wall of the sanctuary was damaged in the course of time. The altar has not survived, but the semi-dome over the chevet has remained basically untouched. The imprint of the original roof structure was observed on the gable of the nave. The chancel-arch was found in good condition. The sanctuary was divided from the nave by a small step. Three semi-circular sediles, built of ashlars were disclosed in the sanctuary, one on the south and two on the north side. This small church which can be dated to the 12th century was extended by a tower on the west side during the first third of the 13th century. It was built of red sandstone and as wide as the west front of the nave. The coupled windows on the first floor of the tower were disclosed intact on the west side, and in fragments on the south front. Originally there were four sedilie on the ground floor, which were later walled off. Inside the tower, on the ground floor there was a gallery, supported by two pilasters, connecting the nave with the under-tower space by three arches

. South of the sanctuary a vaulted grave corridor was excavated. In the second half of the 18th century the long neglected church was occupied by the Calvinist community, which renewed it. Further significant alteration were introduced at the end of the 19th century. The reconstruction of the church, started earlier this year, aims at establishing the medieval character both in its bulk and in its details. Ádám ARNÓTH - Pál LŐVEL The Calvinist church at Egerlövő The church of Egerlövő, a settlement near the west end of the County of Borsod, south of Mezőkövesd has long been supposed to be of medieval origin. This was proved during the research and reconstruction, carried out there in 1986. Then it became evident that the east side, ending in an apse, of the strange T shaped building, was built in Romanesque times. This part was constructed of ashlars. On the outside of the semi-circular sanctuary the traces of carved off lezenes could be observed: two wider ones at the nave conjunction, and four slimmer ones evenly distributed in between. Between two of them in the south and in the north a window each, were disclosed, both narrow, semicircular with askew splaying, walled off in the course of one of the later reconstructions. The former south entrance, with its carved imposts and fragments of the arch, was also found on the side of the medieval nave. Back of the present surface of the facade there was a further bevelled door jamb found, proving that thedoorway, though in a narrower form, was in function well after the Romanesque times. East of this jamb there is a break in the wall - the same phenomenon is to be observed on the north side of the building - indica ting that there must have been two Romanesque periods in the history of the church, the east side dating from the 12th century and being extended in on its west end in the 13th century. Written sources and a date inscription, found in the church suggest that it was rebuilt between 1828 and 1834. The west wall of the old building was demolished, and a new nave was erected in right angle. The whole block of the building was, then, heightened, and a tower built over the sanctuary. As result of the reconstruction between 1986 and 1987 the surface of the medieval bulk of the building, up till the carved off main cornice was simply whitewashed while newer parts were, as they had been before, covered with smooth coating and painted yellow. The authentic reconstruction of the double arches of the south entrance were made of whitewashed brick. The medieval windows could not be reopened again, as there is a choir in the medieval part of the building, built in the 19th century.