Veszprém-Csatárhegy – Szent Holy Cross Chapel

This church stands on the former Temetőhegy (Cemetery Hill), north of the Castle Hill, and has a reverse orientation. It has a single nave and a lower, narrower, elongated polygonal apse with buttresses, to which even lower sacristies are connected. The tower has an octagonal pyramidal spire, and the roof has a gable on the front façade and is hipped over the nave and the apse. There are three simple portals on the main façade, and lesenes with arcaded molding between them divide the façades. The divisions of the façades are simpler than originally. The nave has three bays of groin vaulting separated by transverse arches and each bay has double windows on the side walls. On the northern side, there are blind windows with modern figural paintings on the wall surface behind them, which depict scenes with saints from the Árpád dynasty. The entrance opens from the slightly protruding steeple into the area below the gallery, which has 2x3 bays of vaulting. There are modern paintings on the front of the semicircular chancel arch. In front of this, there are two side altars with white marble sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus (by Lajos Krasznai). The front side of the gallery and the sides of the apse are enriched with colorful artificial marble columns and stucco ornaments. The high altar has a baldachin, white marble with gilding, and stained glass in its windows. The center window depicts St. Ladislaus drawing water (made by Miksa Róth in 1903) and the two side windows depict St. Elizabeth and St. Margaret (1954). The baroque tombstone from 1798 of parish priest István Hajas is on the exterior back wall of the apse. Read less