RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Cymbalak, Tomasz
A1 Kovář, Miroslav
T1 Marginal notes to the building development of St. Michael's church in Prague-Old Town
Randbemerkungen zur Bauentwicklung der Kirche d. hl. Michael in Prag-Altstadt
JF Staletá Praha
YR 2017
VO 33
IS 2
SP 135
OP 151
DO 10.56112/sp.2017.2.04
UL https://staletapraha.cz/en/artkey/pha-201702-0004.php
AB The article briefly summarises current knowledge of the building development of one of the most important ecclesiastic buildings at Prague-Old Town. Archaeological excavations in the interior and the closest surroundings of St. Michael's church revealed evidence of several phases of its building modifications. The first building phase is represented by a single nave church with an apsis, altered several times in the following medieval period, with radical Baroque transformation and subsequent adaptations resulting into current state of the church. The latest survey of the evolution of the western tribune of the Romanesque sanctuary is presented in detail, including its place in a wider context of sacred architecture of medieval Bohemia. Also the anthropogenic stratigraphy in the main nave is characterised, including the evidence of the local stonemason's guild activity in the high medieval ages.