General characteristics
The church’s ground plan follows the common type for Cistercian churches, which had square apses and the nave was divided by two pillars on either side after the crossing. At the southern end of the southern transept wing, on the sides nearest the nave, three-quarter corner columns with foliate capitals have survived on each side. Their style is related to the Hungarian royal court art of the 1230-1250s. The stone frames and jambs of the doors and windows were made of carved stone. There is a d...Read more
The church’s ground plan follows the common type for Cistercian churches, which had square apses and the nave was divided by two pillars on either side after the crossing. At the southern end of the southern transept wing, on the sides nearest the nave, three-quarter corner columns with foliate capitals have survived on each side. Their style is related to the Hungarian royal court art of the 1230-1250s. The stone frames and jambs of the doors and windows were made of carved stone. There is a door topped by a segmented arch leading from the transept to the neighboring groin-vaulted sacristy. The eastern wall of this has a narrow oblong window and a semicircular niche. A semicircular arched door connects the sacristy to the chapter hall, which has a window and a door on its eastern wall. Near a door in the remains of its western wall is a double window that originally had internal and external mullions, and the missing internal mullion was replaced by bricks. The corners of the double window and the door were made from cylindrical elements. A corridor was connected to the chapter hall and the wing was terminated with a dining hall opening to the west.
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