Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 2002/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 2002)
MŰHELY - Fülöp András - Koppány András: A veszprémvölgyi apácakolostor régészeti kutatása (1998-2002)
at the king's request the convent was admitted to the Cistercian order. The reconstruction of the convent took place in 1387, the contract with the master had remained. As a result of the archaeological excavations that have been carried on since 1998 it could be stated that the earliest building could be found to the west from the Jesuit church, its orientation was different from the other buildings and it had barrel vaulting. The 14,30 m long church with rectangular apse and only 65 cm wide walls with a rectangular edifice (tower?) in front of its western façade must have been built later. On the basis of the small amount of finds this building might be identified with the church built in the second half of the 13 th century by the Cistercians. But more will be known in case the 11 th century church would also be found. (Till now it has been possible to excavate a small part of the ruins.) Burials belonging to the church with rectangular apse were found north and south of the church. They did not contain finds or had late medieval ones. Around the first half of the 14 th century a small side chapel was built on the northern side of the church. Only its northern part in the interior of the present baroque church could be known, as the southern one had been destroyed by the later gothic and baroque walls. The southern nave wall was built approximately on the place of the northern nave wall of the abbey, that had been pulled down. The side chapel also had a rectangular apse with an empty vault below it. The stairs leading there, the door-stone and door-frame were also found. Several fragments of the 14 th century wall-paintings were found in the rubble of the vault and the grey basement painting had remained in situ on the northern nave wall of the side chapel. An obol of king Louis I. from 1371-72 was found in the pulled down part of the side chapel, dating to the end of the 14 th century the new, late-gothic church built above it. The late gothic church built on the course of the new construction work was similar to the still standing Jesuit church considering its major characteristics. Its northern nave wall was the wall of the later baroque church, the southern nave wall ran beside the walls of the Jesuit church. The cast mortar floor of the late gothic church (with several nun burials) was excavated in the interior of the present church together with the piers of the triumphal arch. The polygonal apse fortified with buttresses was found together with the altar plate below the present road, in front of the eastern façade of the church. Simultaneously the convent had been built on, but the situation of the rooms mainly excavated in the 1930's differed from the usual plan with a cloister in the centre. In 2002 the walls of a till now unknown building could be uncovered the width of which is similar to that of mentioned in the 1387 building contract and ceramics found there did not contradict to the late 14th century dating. The large trapezoid court uncovered in the 1930's belongs to the last major construction work of the convent; in the rooms attached to it late 15 th-early 16 th century finds were found.
