RUŠEVNA CRKVA NA GROBLJU SV. FILIPA I JAKOVA U SV. JURJU KRAJ SENJA
DISREPAIRED CHURCH ON ST FILIP AND JAKOV CEMETERY AT ST JURAJ BESIDE SENJ

Summary/Abstract: This is an article on a rare remains from our past: almost completely preserved, the Cistercian church of one mercantile station by the sea, belonging to the mid 13th c, which was the best period in the development of Cistercian monastery at Toplica (later Topusko). In view of the fact that the monastery of Toplica was extinguished rather quickly, the need for their mercantile station and chapel also ended. The wars with the Turks were obviously the reason for further abandonment not only of the church of St Filip and Jakov, but also of the Benedictine monastery and settlement Lisac as well. The strong construction of the Cistercian church of St Filip and Jakov somehow preserved the object, although not completely. So, the gothic vault is no more there but only the traces of it. The barrel vault speaks of its later temporary usage, which did not last for a long time. Fortunately, the remaining walls stay there still, but the church certainly requires further researches and respective reconstruction. Namely, this is a very important object either for the sacral architecture of medieval Croatia or for the history of the Cistercians in general.

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