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Church of St. John the Baptist in Sedmerovec – Pominovce Issue number
441
Date of issue
02.01.2009
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Today, the small church of St. John the Baptist stands alone at a place of a former village Pominovce in the land register of the village Sedmerovec. Erected in the 12th century, it is a proof that the former village Pominovce was older then it could be anticipated according to the first written document from the year 1229. The church made of quarry stone is an impeccably preserved Romanesque building. Since its construction, it has gone through only tiny architectonic adjustments. It is a representative of a typical kind of a small rural one-nave church with an eastern semicircular apse. To the west, there is an entrance built-in tower with joint windows on the upper floor. Window semicircular round arches are supported with a central column. The church interior is lighted by small, narrow semicircular windows with deeply sloped splays. They can be found on the southern side of the nave as well as on the southern side of the apse and its eastern axis. Apse windows were located in such a way so that they could bring light to the altar during morning masses. The importance of this part of the church is underlined by a higher floor level. The floor, made of rough stone plates in the whole interior, seems to be very archaic and thus its medieval origin cannot be ruled out. The western part of the nave is filled with a built gallery. Its front wall bearing the central arcade rests on three semicircular arches supported by two prismatic pillars. Similar western galleries were to be found in many Romanesque churches (in Slovakia it was e.g. in Dražovce, Kalinčiakovo, Jur nad Hronom, Veľká Tŕňa). However, their authentic appearance has only rarely been preserved, as it is with the church in Pominovce. They used to be the prerogative place of a nobleman from which he used to observe masses. Nevertheless, also a little altar designed especially for a private prayer of a nobleman and a church owner might have been located there. That is why such kind of churches is called also noblemen’s, gallery churches. Bibiana Pomfyová

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