RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Volfová, Eva
A1 Žižka, Jan
T1 On the Appearance and Changes of the Church of Saint James the Greater in Želenice
JF Památky středních Čech
YR 2022
VO 36
IS 2
SP 13
OP 36
DO 10.56112/psc.2022.2.02
UL https://pamatkysc.cz/en/artkey/psc-202202-0002.php
AB The Church of Saint James the Greater in Želenice, Slaný Region, has been one of the famous Romanesque churches in Central Bohemia for quite a long time. Its overall reconstruction in 2013 cleared the way for a deeper examination. The remaining great portion of the Romanesque nave with walls made of sandstone ashlar rows alternating with layers of small marlstone ashlars is differentiated from other Romanesque churches because of a supernormal elongated ground plan and façade proportions with rather odd window openings. The further building stages of the church are also rather remarkable - first, the presbytery without corner buttresses that is closed by five sides of an octagon and that has the same width as the church was changed during the High Gothic reconstruction that indicated a relation to contemporary Rosenberg structures. Second, it was the historicist renovation of the collapsed western side during the Late Middle Ages.