Heves megyei aprónyomtatványok 19/N
18 th century. Pillars and clustered columns were pulled down in order to create an inner room consisting only of one nave. The weakened Medieval walls were propped up by pillars supporting in the same time the weight of the new vaulting. Pulling down the eastern outer wall a new, more spacious choir was created, before the western outer wall which remained, a spire was built. The interoir of the nave was filled into the height of the level of the choir, hiding such the remains of the previous building. From the first church only the undercroft remained, though maimed and walled up on two ends; its entrance from the nave was through the broken western wall of the crypt. The church was restored by the National Intendance of Historic Monuments. This work was preceded by a thorough archeological and architechtonical research carried out by members of the Hungarian National Museum and the National Intendance of Historic Monuments. The work was finished in 1983. The architectonical details uncovered belonging to different periods are now displayed everywhere within the range of possibility. The Medieval remains are shown by the pure surface of stone, the outsides of the walls from more recent times are covered by rough-cast plaster-work in the colour of the raw stone walls, the explaining complements are separated by a paint in the same colour. The richness of the one-time forest of columns and pillars in the interior is evoked by two clustered columns, one built to its middle and one to the full length, with the arching leaning on it. By pulling down the organ choir built in the 19 th century we cleared the inner side of the original western outer wall which remained almost to its one-time height; thus also the triumphal arch of the western apse became visible. We restored the burial vault with the peepwindows and the stairs leading there according to the original state; we opened and made accessible the walled-up Arpadian peroid entrance of the undercroft. The most important pieces of the furnishing were restored and replaced; among them the side-altar from the 18 th. century is of the most outstanding artistical value. 15
