F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1996/2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1996)

TANULMÁNY - Szabó Zoltán: A szentté avatott Imre herceg kultuszának kérdése a székesfehérvári prépostság Nagyboldogasszony templomában

Later the formation of the tomb's surroundings was spread to a territory of 16,5x8m. On this territory - considering the size of the basement walls - large height constructions needing stronger basement, with several buttressing points had closed it in north-southern direction from the canon's choir to the southern aisle, while in east-western direction from the western line of the choir to the eastern wall of the southern aisle. In an important later building period at the appearance of the buttressing construction of the new row of arcades the adjusment to the place of the tomb was considered to have been an outstanding task, and this was reached by the adequate choice of the pillar size near the tomb. The pillar surfaces undivided keep the remnants of a kind of burial construction or perhaps an altar, while on the other side of the Und pillar the traces of an architectural element - altar, epitaphy? - could be seen. It might be supposed, that the first southern entrance in the axe of the tomb was opened at the same time as the pillars were built. At the time of the Anjou buildings in 1318, complements to the tomb that was held to be preserved between the pillars were attached in such manner that new coverings surrounded pillars on three sides, while their fourth one reaches the wall of the tomb between the two pillars following the northern and southern comer. The part of the construction standing on the bourderlines of the southern tomb surroundings was changed however on its side attached to the pavement level. The new composition resulted the lifting up of the whole territory of the burial compared to the pillar from the Anjou period. In a later period of the Anjou era the further narrowing of the nave seemed to have been necessary to reduce the weight on the vaulting. This was made by the help of further coating on the pillars' sides looking towards the nave. The space closed by the pillars 3,5-4m high in north-southern direction and the vaults above them could have been an independent interior in the surroundings of the tomb. The pavement levels had contiually been raised, the building activity in connection and following these raises on the territory of the cult place in the southern aisle could also be perceived.