Veszprém – Church of St. Emerich

The church building consists of a nave with two bays covered with surbased sail vaults, an accompanying narrower and shorter gallery, and a curved apse with a dome on pendentives. A sacristy was added to the southern wall of the apse. The western façade is topped with a cornice and an attic wall, and is bordered by a pilaster on either side. The projecting central section, the avant-corps, is framed by two pairs of Ionic columns. The entrance in the middle has a flat top and is crowned by a volute pediment with a straight cornice. Above this is the year 1833 in roman numerals. Above the bi-level cornice of the avant-corps, there is a semicircular arched window. There is the inscription “D. O. M. / HONORIBUS B. MARIAE V. ET S. EMERICI” on the section of the attic wall over the avant-corps and there are stone urns on both ends of the attic wall as well as at the two corners of the projecting central section. The two-story tower crowned by a cantilevered cornice and topped with a tin spire is connected to the attic wall by half gable parapets. There is an oval window framed by pilasters on the western side of lower level of the tower, and there are semicircular arched windows on the four sides of the belfry level. The vault sections of the nave are separated by transverse arches and are lit by semicircular arched windows on either side. The altarpiece depicts St. Emeric with the Madonna and is crowned with an arched pediment and a cornice supported by two Corinthian pilasters on either side. There are four side altars in the nave along the walls under the windows. Their altarpieces are framed with Ionic pilasters and triangular pediments. Read less