F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1992/2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1992)

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with a coat of arms with the date 1515 on one of them. The coat of arms was identified with that of the Tahy family, 16th century landowners and officials in Southern Hungary (today Croatia). During the research the question of a possible reuse of the peduccios in this place was considered, but could not be decided either way. The vault of the ground floor and the kitchen on the first represent a separate building period. This could either have been accomplished at the beginning of the 18th century, or at its end, when the main façade was restored in late Baroque style. At the same time the bevelled pieces of a previous Gothic doorway were reused — with additional modem brick — to build a semicircular gateway. The medieval stones were removed. The reconstructed lancet opening could, in this form, never have been part of the budding. The L block was enlarged by a new staircase in the west, altering the original layout, between 1857—59. The vaults of the second bay in the gateway as well as those of the corridors on the first floor also date from this time. They were rebuilt twice in the 20th century. The stonework, decisive for the date of the building, proved to be secondary or dubtful in view of the results produced by the architectural investigation. They differ in material as well as style, thus supplying no evidence of date for the earliest history of the building. Since the owners of the house are known only from the beginning of the 17th century onwards, written data was not enlightening on this issue, either. Gábor ILON: Archaeological Sondage of the Site of the "Corvin-House" in Pápa Restricted financial means compelled us to a limited sondage of the site, mainly to help the architectural investigations with necessary data. In the course of this work we tested the site in six different places. (Fig. 23) In Ditch „A" as well as Ditch „H1

—2" walls built of identical technique (stone-brick, laid in strong mortar) and ghost-walls were found. Finds under the wall ending in Ditch „A" were to be dated to the 15th century, earliest. A dwelling was identified in Ditch „K", dated by the evidence of finds (Fig. 24/5 and 24/7) to the 12th or early 13th century. The house itself was a pile-structure, with walls built of mud and a pit inside, probably serving work purposes. The edifice was identified as standing above the ground, but the possibility of a pitdwelling cannot be excluded either. Later public utility system has ruined most of it and made sufficient excavation of the remnants impossible. The edifice must have got ruined as early as the 13th century. It is at present totally uncertain as to which of the medieval villages once occupying the present town center the house would have belonged to. Károly SONKOLY: The Jeszenszky Manor at Megyefa-Bükkösd (Country of Baranya) Architectural investigation of the manor-house was carried out by the author in 1990-1991. The rather small, L shaped, one storey building is standing on a hill above the village in a large unweeded park. The oldest part, the south west wing was built by the local landowner Antal Jeszenszky of Kisjeszen. The tympanum of the central projection on the garden façade is decorated with his and his wife's coat of arms, carved of stone. The old building had once vaulted spaces. Along the courtyard front there ran an archway. The same motive appears on the adjoining north east wing, too, which was built later but, by all likelihood, still during the life of Antal Jeszenszky. This situation has been preserved on the water colour of a dilettante artist from 1842, in the possession of a late member of the Jeszenszky family, who have owned the place for more than 150 years. Some insignificant changes were carried out on the house in the course of the 19th century. In 1900 it was rebuilt and enlarged by Lajos Jeszenszky in late Historic style. The tower and the comer pavilion with the colonnade was built then. This stage, in which a villa like appearance was reached, can definitely be considered as the peak in the history of the building. After having been nationalised in 1949, the house had several alternating owners, latest it was being used as a shoe factory, with consequent rapid dilapidation. In 1990 it was bought up by a limited company with the intention of mrning the building into a hotel. The firm, however, went brankrupt and the restoration was cut short. Fortunately, the exterior was finished by then, thus there is no immediate threat of complete deterioration.