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

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János SEDLMAYR: Late-Gothic bay-window in the Bishop's Palace at Gyár During the archaeological investigation of the palace in 1982, a series of windows were disclosed on the north facade of the building, which were defined as having once belonged to a bay-window of the dining hall of the Bishop Orbán Nagylucsei. The bay-windowwas originally supported by pilasters starting from theraised ground floor-these are invisible today, being hidden by the deposit of the younger bastion. On the main floor the dining hall was enlarged in a representative way by two bays with a net vault. The cross divided double windows occupy almost the complete wall surface of the bay-window, and as an ensemble, almost the total wall surface of the north facade. This articulationn of the front and the method of gaining extension by applying supportive pilaster is very similar to what we can see in Visegrád, where a bay-window of the royal palace is opening on the first courtyard. The reopening of the windows was a difficult problem as a further, Baroque storey has been built over the hall, while below the very pilaster carrying the major weight has been removed since. As a solution the latter was strenghened by reinforced concrete, and new discharging was introducted of the windows became possible; when replacing missing details, the moulding of the stone jambs were copied, the material being cast stone, in the material of which minor original fragments were used, too. Klára MENTÉNYI - FACSÁDY: An archaeological survey of the Convent of the Jesuit (later Benedictine) Order in Kőszeg The building was erected between 1677-1680, over the site of three earlier, medieval houses. It was desingned by Pietro Orsalini, the architect, who somewhat earlier built the convent and the Chuch of the Augustinian Order in Léka (Lockenhaus, Burgenland Austria). Research possibilities wererestricted,and strictly dependent on the reconstruction project, thus it is only a sketch of the history of the building that we can presently draw. In its first phase the two storey-building, constructed of a mixed masonry of brick and stone was narrower in the north than had been anticipated. The north room overlooking the west facade, and the suite behind it does not belong to this phase, which means that the early layout of the building did not show the regular I shape. The earlier suggestion, that the square shape space adjoining the west facade of Stjames' from the north would have been a tower, cannot be maintained any more. Neither could we prove the earlier date of the sacristy as both small spaces are in structural unity with the Jesuit convent building, and date from the same time as the latter. Between 1700 and 1720 there were a series of fires in the building. After the last one in 1720, the convent had to be renovated. It is to be presumed that the extension in the north was built on this occasion. The window jambs, which then became useless on the court facade, were re-used for a representative window arrangement in the wall separating the Refectory from the corridor. While the walls earlier were white-washed, they now began to be decorated by wall paintings. Traces of this have, however, only survived in the apothecary on the ground floor, the rest having fallen victim to later re-plastering of the walls. The Jesuits were granted permit for opening their apothecary in 1749. As the gate to the convent at that time opened in the south wing of the building, and not where we know it to be today, the officina had to be approached through a back door. The beautiful funúshing, work of carpenter members of the order, is today to be seen in the Apothecary Museum on Jurisich square. A description of the building has survived from 1773, the year of the dissolution of the Jesuit Order, in which the function of all the premises was defined. Thus we know that on the ground floor there was the kitchen, the refectory, and the apothecary; on the first floor next to the library there were different living quarters; while the latter occuped the uppermost storey of the building. Through the corridor in the middle there used to be direct approach to the school building, erected on the east side of the convent block at about 1710 which, however, has unfortunately been demmolished since. Between 1777 an 1815 the buildings were taken on by the Piarist Order, and subsequently by the Benedictines, who had to leave it only as late as 1950. Significant architectural changes were carried out in one case, in 1907. It was then, that the north extension and the elegant staircase- areminiscenceof theoneat Pannonhalma - was built (architect, Ágoston László). The buildings were given back to the Benedictine Order in 1990 - presently the alterations are carried out by the Order of the Words of the Lord.