Melega Miklós (szerk.): Remembering St Martin in his birth place (Szombathely, 2016)
the time the church was re-dedicated to the Holy Trinity and St martin’s veneration was relegated to a chapel. It wasn’t until the 20th century that major changes tooh place. A new oratory was in 1924 and, designed by Wälosr Gyula and required by the foundation of the new parish, a second transept was built in 1930. To enhance the seating capacity of the church, its interiors were converted into a three-nave space, which had room enough eight altars only. These construction works allowed the two wings of the monastery to be connected with the church itself. This is how today’s building finally took shape, although back then there was a high wall separating the seclusion cf the monastery from the parish building merely two decades later, when the religious orders were dissolved in Hungary in 1950, the Dominicans had to leave the place. It has been the Diocese cf Szombathely that has been taking care of the church ever since. Visitors can admire the medieval walls cf the shrine since 1992. The full external renovation and the reconstruction of the interiors, including the restoration cf the original state of the altars, had been completed by the Commemorative St martin Year in 20t6.3 Literature and notes 1 About today's Вагофе Church: Kiss Gábor - Tóth Sndrc: A szombathelyi Szent ITlárton templom története. - Lapok Szombathely történetéből (hereinafter: LSZt.l, 1992.13. sz. 1-6. p. Panniculus Ser. C: 13.X ZsÁrtméKY ITIonika: A szombathelyi Szent ITlárton-templom 17. századi építéstörténete és berendezései, művészettörténeti értesítő (hereinafter: mél 2001. 3-4. sz. 232-236. p.; Kiss Gábor - Tóth 6ndre: Szombathely- Szent márton-templom. In: Lapidarium Hungáriáim, ITIagyarország építészeti töredékeinek gyűjteménye. 5. Vas me^ye. 2. Szerk. Lova Pál. Budapest. 2002. 349-350. p.: Kiss Gábor - Zsáitwóky ITIonika: A szombathelyi Szent márton- templom a domonkosok idején. 1638- 1950. Szombathely, 2012. (hereinafter: Kiss - Zsáitibsky, 2012.) 6-9.. 22-25. p. ~ Koppány Tibor: Carlo della Torre, a Batthyányak 17. századi építésze, művészettörténet - műemlékvédelem 4. Horlsr (Tliklós születésnapjára. Budapest, 1993. Zsáihbsky ITIonika: Carlo della Torre szerződése a szombathelyi Szent márton templom építésére. * LSZt. 1997. 57, sz. 1-2. p. (Panniculus Ser. G: 75.1 Uő: Carlo della Torre szerződése a szombathelyi • Szent márton templom építésére. - mé, 1997.1-2. sz. 83-86. p. 3 A szombathelyi Szent márton Plébánia évkönyve. 2016. Felelős kiad. Schausrihann dános. Szombathely, 2016.54-71. p.-T/Vears after the Dominicans / »settled down in Szombathely, Ч/Vin 1668 Batthyány Srzsébet, the widow of Srpődy György, committed to build a new church: Led by the Italian master builder, Carlo della Torre3, the construction works were completed in 1672, but the interior can’t have been complete at the time. Built with a single nave and one transept and a row of chapels, the Sarly Barocfue building had altogether ten altars. The church and the monastery, lying to the south of the church and already completed by the time, could not be joined since the cemetery, which belonged to the town's parish that had moved to the Virgin ГПагу Church in the castle in 1638, was lying in betweea North of the cemetery, Batthyány Srzsébet built a hospital on a plot of land owned by the Dominicans. meeting her request in her last will, as the founder of the hospital and cf the church she was buried in the crypt cf the church, built for her under the Rosary Altar. The altars and the pews you can see today were made between 1730 and 1750 after crypts had been built under the transept, the nave and the chapels. At 18 Remembering St martin in his birth place
