Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 2002/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 2002)

MŰHELY - Bodó Balázs: A veszprémvölgyi apácakolostor építéstörténete és kőfaragványai

fied with the old tower mentioned in the contract. Among the fragments in connection with the 14

th century rebuilding elements of a vaulted space can be found. The construction might have belonged to the church, but its exact place is yet not known. The only in situ lintel can be found in the north-western part of the early wing. The exterior of the monastery building was largely formed by the 14th century construction. Following that one more reconstruction took place, around 1500 on the northern and western side of the trapezoid court new buildings were erected. The beginning of the demolition of the buildings and the scattering of the carvings was the period of Ottoman wars. Between 1645-1648 a large amount of carvings were taken to and built in the south-eastern bastion and southern gate of Veszprém fortress, which can be seen even today. The carvings of the Premonstratensian church of the nearby Gyulafirátót were built in together with the stones of the Cistercian monastery. A further scattering of the stones is indicated by their use as the 1695 tombstone of Judith Vidi in the neighbouring St. Margeret church (today St. Ladislas chapel) made of the window-frame of the church. In the 18

th century a new church was built on the ruins of the medieval by the Jesuits. During the construction the stones of the earlier buildings were used. When Flóris Rómer visited the place, he could find major fragments however. The research of the Veszprémvölgy monastery is far from being finished. New fragments can still be found in the lapidary and in different places of the city built in the walls of later buildings.