Church. Gereon Wawel Church. Gereon , wearing a summons St . Mary of Egypt - now non-existent church , whose remains are located on Wawel Hill in Kraków. Was probably about half of the eleventh century ( on the site of an older building ) , and maybe he was a representative palace chapel (though there are other theories on the subject , such as connecting the temple with the Benedictines ) .The remains of this church , located in the courtyard Batory and west wing of the castle, he came in 1914, prof. Adolf Szyszko- Bohusz , who regarded them as relics of the first of the Wawel Cathedral , the so-called . chrobrowskiej . This view is refuted studies conducted in the 80sThis church was built in the form of three-span basilica with a transept . The western facade had two towers, and the chancel apse was finished nave vault . Smaller apses were in the eastern walls of the transept arms . The most striking feature of the architecture of the church were rarely seen in the galleries of the transept arms , Carolingian origin . In the thirteenth century, the temple has been reduced by some nave , and the remaining portion began to function as a chapel of St.. Mary of Egypt . After successive transformations brought an end to the reconstruction of the chapel of the castle Wawel in the early sixteenth century
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