The Medieval Church in Iermata Neagră – Feketegyarmat (Arad County)
The Medieval Church in Iermata Neagră – Feketegyarmat (Arad County)

Summary/Abstract: The restoration works performed over several years at the Reformed church in Iermata Neagră have allowed specialists to embark upon wall-face and preventive archaeological researches. The two archaeological campaigns performed in 2008 and 2016, as well as the analysis of the masonry structure, have led to the reconstruction of the monument’s relative chronology. We have focused on the identification of the planimetry and of the medieval phases of the church, as well as on the impact of the modern reconstructions.Since 2000 specialists have known that fragments of wall painting from the second half of the 15th century or the beginning of the subsequent century have been preserved in the nave of the church. Before 2000 they thought that the wall paintings had been destroyed at the latest around 1889. The preserved fragments provided clear indications of the existence of remains from the medieval structure of the church, less known due to the transformations over time. We have also identified segments of the medieval foundations in the opened trial archaeological trenches. The rehabilitation works have revealed the planimetry and the volumetry of a village parish church that can now be added to an otherwise short list of medieval stone edifices researched on the territory of the present-day county of Arad.

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