Szatmári Gizella: Walks in the Castle District - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

Gothic sedilia (No. 32 Úri utca)

Hall, built the second Holy Trinity Column of the Castle District and was involved in the preparations for the reconstruction of the Royal Palace. Also on the level of the second floor is a Gothic wall-section between Nos. 31 and 33. The remnants may have belonged to a cloister or, perhaps, to the Chapel of All Saints.

The gateway of No. 32 is decorated with eight trac- eried sedilia and two fine vaulted doors. The arcades in the courtyard were made later in Baroque style. All this is held in protective embrace by a modern 20th century building.

The oldest carved stone monument of the entire Castle District was uncovered by archaeologists in the courtyard of the house at No. 38 Úri utca. At the end of the 13th century, the floral capital embellished the top of a column separating the parts of a double sedilia (today the ornament is kept in a museum). The building is sometimes referred to as “Weszprimer Haus” in old documents, since the building belonged to Márton Bíró Padányi in 1760, the Bishop of Veszprém. In the middle of the 19th century, the property was bought from the town by the Buda Association of Charitable

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