F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 2000/1-2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 2000)
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triumphal arch, and the southern wall of it was opened with two circular windows and two circular doors with orders of arches. This early building was widened towards west with a room built also of brick, supported by buttresses at its corners. It was combined with a tower with a loft on its western part; it was cross-vaulted on the ground floor and was not vaulted at all at the loft except below the tower. On its northern facade was a gabled door with a cross on top semicircular window longer than the earlier ones. Fragments of the exterior wall paintings have remained on a surface covered by the roof-frame of the newer porch. According to medieval and early modern age traditions there were burials in and around the church. On the northern side of the church medieval vessels were found with skeletons the size of which proves that dead infants were buried to them. The village and its priest had been first mentioned in the papal tithe list in the thirties of the 14 ln century. The patrons might have been members of the Peterdi family, but the chapter of Pécs had also domains in the village during the 15-16 tn centuries. In the period of the Ottoman rule the village had a double taxation, the church got to the possession of Protestants and then to Unitarians and then back to the former again. Following the Ottomans' driven out the village was donated to the Batthyány family by the Emperor, and it was destroyed together with its church by the Serbs at the beginning of the 18 th century. According to a 1722 source its vaults fall down, but the tower was unharmed. In 1768 the church was rebuilt by the inhabitants of the village, the tower from the Age of the Arpads was pulled down and according to the model of the county authorities a new was built. Below the loft the vaulting was changed to barrel-vault. The sacristy and the choir was pulled down and the church was enlarged towards east. The medieval windows and the door of the western part were walled off and a porch was built on the southern part. The ceiling was decorated with plaster frames, around the reused southern door of the early church a red-marble door-frame with rococo ornamentation was painted. The pulpit and the stall were presumably made before 1817, the loft in 1816. The shingle-roof was changed for tiles in 1840. The church was restored first in 1905, and then in 1936. A new restoration was needed again, the plans were finished, but the beginning of the work is delayed as a result of financial reasons.
