Kisné Cseh Julianna – Somorjai József szerk.: Komárom – Esztergom Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 5. (Tata, 1997)

Lázár Sarolta: The Research Carried Out at the Former Paulite Monastery Church from Pilisszentlélek Between 1985 and 1986

The Researches Carried Out at the Former Paulite Monastery Church from Pilisszentlélek Between 1985 and 1986 Sarolta Lázár The monastery can be found east of Pilisszentlélek (Komárom-Esztergom county), on the western slope of a hill close to the village. The main building consists of the church and the monastery which is attached to it in the north. The group of buildings, built in a terrace-form, is cut in the hill on the east, is encircled by a walled court in the east and the west, and on its southern part another row of buildings can be found. North of them the remains of a detached building can be seen, (drawing No 1) The elaboration of the material following the excavations, preserving the consistency and restoration is planned as a series in the volumes of the Annals of the County Museum. In the place of the monastery there stood King Béla IV hunting-seat which he donated to the Paulites in 1263. In 1287 King László IV redonated both the terrain and the hunting-seat to the Paulites. In 1323 King Károly Róbert visited tho monastery and in 1378 King Nagy Lajos spent the Holy Week there. The monastery was destroyed during the Turkish rule. On the place of the ruins there were excavations between 1928-1933, and these determined in great lines the position of the buildings. The church took its present shape in the l4th-15th centuries. It is built of stone, ariented to the east and the shrine and the sacristy chapel are straightclosing. They are of equal lenght. The chapel is narrower. The shrine is longer than the rectangular nave. The triumphal arch is on the axis of the shrine only, but not on that of the nave. Apart from the stones of the nave's pedestal the the shrine and the southern wall of the nave are in one line, (drawing No 2) There were three altars in the church. According to the present state of the research we can state that the characteristic ground plan adjustment (the unusual ground plan of the nave, the asymmetry of the church) could have been influenced and determined by the buildings of the Arpadian-age - not know yet - as well as by the natural endowments of the terrain. During the preservation of the consistency the revealed were raised with 0,5 metres with the help of the stone found during the excavation and finally they got a wall-protecting capping. On the occasion of the reconstruction of the walls we marked the triumphal arch, the gate and the doorways. All the three altars were completed with the stairs that lead to them and the altars were furnished with plates, (picture No 3) 503