RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Maříková-Kubková, Jana
A1 Herichová, Iva
T1 Revisited after 65 Years : The First Building Phase of the Church of the Virgin Mary at Prague Castle, Hradčany
JF Staletá Praha
YR 2015
VO 31
IS 2
SP 62
OP 75
DO 10.56112/sp.2015.2.04
UL https://staletapraha.cz/en/artkey/pha-201502-0004.php
AB The Church of the Virgin Mary, the latest discovery among the churches at Prague Castle known from written sources, was investigated at the very beginning of the 1950s. Attempts at finding its location date back to the interwar period, and it was around 1930 that Ivan Borkovský found the first indication of a building he was later to identify as St Mary's Church. Since the first publication of his investigation in 1950, it has been clear that the location and building do not conform to the idea conveyed by the written sources. This contribution seeks to define the place the church was erected at, to suggest a new reconstruction of its first building phase, including the architectural context, and to open a debate on the questions that have arisen from this new reconstruction.