F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 2000/1-2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 2000)

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The earliest pavement of the round church was deepened already in the Middle Ages, so its connection to the small niche, the remains of which were found is the northern nave wall is not known It might have been a pulpit or a side altar. The gate opened from south-west, the remains found in the western jamb must have belonged to the order of arches. A sockle was belonging to that found at the autumn field-work. The steep profde of the a attic was characteristic of 12

th century carvings in Hungary and it had been living on in the 13

th century in village churches. When dating the round church it had to be taken into consideration that before the end of the 12

th century village churches were not built of broad-stones. On the basis of all these it must have been built at the end of 12

th - beginning of 13

th century. The surrounding walls were most probably finished by that time, certain parts of it could be observed during field-work. The fan-shaped sacristy was built later, its pavement was perhaps adjusted to the earlier, higher level of the round church. The later door in the nave's wall was connected with the above mentioned niche. When sinking the church's pavement steps were leading up to the sacristy. The polygonal choir standing high and supported by buttresses even today must have been built in the 14-15

th centuries. Its pastophorium and a window-still can be seen in the wall even today. The choir got a new brick pavement, and the Romanesque niche was transformed. The former vaults do not exist any more, only traces of it are on the choir wall, as later a new vaulting was made, higher than the former one. The ribs of the new vaults were painted pink and were white-washed - on the basis of the rib profile the new vaults were made in the late 15th-early 16

tn century by Dénes Bekény of Mikófalva. The vaults must have been raised because of the placing of a higher altar, and the late gothic altar-base might have been also raised on this occasion. The fieldwork of the ruins was finished in the autumn of 2000, the conservation of the ruins took place in the spring of 2001. (The architect was Zsuzsanna Máté, park designer was Anita Szabadics).