A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 20. (1981)

SCHÖNERNÉ PUSZTAI Ilona: A szalonnai református templom helyreállítása

50 CHŐNERNÉ PUSZTAI ILONA A helyreállított középkori templom a Miskolc—Jósvafő útvonalon, Szalonna falu közepén áll, kissé kiemelkedő dombon. A dombot déli oldalon patak határolja. A templomegyüttes szépen illeszkedik a község és a táj hangulatába, előnyösen példázva történeti emlékeink máig megmaradt művészeti értékeit. JEGYZETEK 1. A rakacaszendi templom kutatási munkáit Pálóczi Horváth András, a helyreállítás terveit H. Vladár Ágnes készítette. 2. Pörge Gergely rajzait Dénes György publikálta a Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyvének XII. (Miskolc 1973) kötetében. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CALVINIST CHURCH IN SZALONNA The refurbishing of the Szalonna Calvinist Church began in 1972 by the Intendance National of Historical Monuments. The present form comes from the enlargement of an early round church, the shrine of which has totally, the nave in its two third been preserved. A baroque wooden gallery has been erected in the shrine. The windows were altered several times. Wall paintings from the Middle Ages were decorating the present shrine and the arches. Destroyed springers could be seen in the shrine, while next to the arch a carved wooden pulpit was standing. The shrine and the nave were covered with badly painted roofing, made at the beginning of the 20th c. The baroque gallery with painted railing has been preserved in the western end of the nave. The church was covered with badly preserved, hollow sheet iron roof. The architrave level of the shrine, the nave and the extension of the round church overlap. North of the church a wooden, slated belfry was standing. Both the church and the belfry were enclosed with a wall of rough stones. The first plans of reconstruction were made during the summer, 1972. Preceding it there had been an investigation of the outer surface of the wall. A nearly intact part of the early facade was found in the southern frontal of the round church

: an arched and denticulated brick architrave, brick wall piers, arched windows with stepped orders of arches and a carved stone frieze above the architrave. The shrine of the round church was considerably altered already in the Middle Ages. The architrave was walled up just like in the nave, the ornamental elements were carved off. On the northern side the ruins of a vestry, demolished about 1800, could be noticed. According to the investigation of the wall, the building of the round church can be dated from the 12th c.