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Kamińska, Justyna: Kościół podominikański w Poznaniu - uwagi na temat pierwotnego układu przestrzennego i dekoracji architektonicznej
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Similar thirteenth-century rood screens existed in the Franciscan church in
Zawichost,60 the Dominican churches in Kraków61 and Wrocław,62 whereas
traces of choir partitions of unknown form were also discovered in Gdańsk63
and Kamień Pomorski.64 Perhaps there was a passage in the northern wali of the
nave allowing the monks to get to the lectorium directly from the cloisters, as
it had been established, for example, with respect to the Dominican churches
in Kośice and Buda.65
It is not certain whether the planned rood screen was completed. Eugeniusz
Linette and Andrzej Grzybkowski omitted this issue entirely, whereas the opin-
ions of other researchers on the subject are divided. During the archaeological
research, no traces of the structure erected on the prepared footings were found,
which prompted the researchers to conclude that the construction of the rood
screen had never progressed beyond the level of the foundations.66 Their view
was recently shared by Piotr Wawrzyniak and Janusz Pietrzak,67 while Andrzej
Kusztelski and Zofia Kurzawa offered contradictory information in their work,
first recognizing that the rood screen had been created,68 and later describing it
as a merely planned, ultimately unrealized structure.69 In Grzybkowskis opin-
ion, the Mendicants’ use of a specific architectural type in this part of Europę,
one that combined a long nave with an elongated choir, already distinguished
two zones of the tempie,70 which might have justified the abandonment of the
project. No traces of a rood screen have been found in the Dominican church
in Sieradz, for example.71 In the case of the Poznań church, the border between
the choir and the western part of the church intended for the faithful might have
been additionally emphasized by a very narrow chancel opening with a clear-
ance of only 4.2 m and the choir floor raised by 35 cm.72 Perhaps after the death
of the founder, the brethren considered it a priority to complete the construc-
tion of the nave and make the church available to the faithful, while abandoning
the construction of a rood screen. However, it seems morę likely that the latter
was indeed constructed. This is supported by the aforementioned Dominican
60 P. Paj or, Podwójny klasztor franciszkański w Zawichoście, in: Architektura sakralna w początkach
państwa polskiego (x-xiii wiek), T. Janiak, D. Stryniak (eds.), Gniezno 2016, pp. 527-528.
61 M. Szyma, Kościół i klasztor, p. 91.
62 E. Małachowicz, Wczesnośredniowieczna architektura kościoła Dominikanów we Wrocławiu,
“Kwartalnik Architektury i Urbanistyki. Teoria i Historia”, 20,1975, no. 1, pp. 20,22-23.
63 M. Szyszka, Romański kościół pw. św. Mikołaja i trzynastowieczny zespółpodominikański w świetle
badań archeologicznych na stan. 5 w Gdańsku, in: Architektura romańska w Polsce. Nowe odkrycia
i interpretacje. Materiały z sesji naukowej w Muzeum Początków Państwa Połskiego, Gniezno,
9-11 kwietnia 2008 roku, T. Janiak (ed.), Gdańsk 2009, pp. 627-628.
64 H. Kustosz, A. Sobucki, Odkrycie rełiktów średniowiecznego kościoła kłasztornego dominikanów
pw. św. Idziego w Kamieniu Pomorskim. Wstępne wyniki badań architektoniczno-archeologicznych,
“Materiały Zachodniopomorskie”, N.S., 12,2016, pp. 487,513.
65 R. Rusnak, M. Volovar, Zaznamenał Ałexander Canovał v 17 staroci dispoziciu dominikanskeho
kłaśtora v Kośiciach?, “Vychodoslovensky pravek”, 10, 2013, pp. 171-187.
66 M. Andrałojć, H. Klunder, Opracowanie archeołogicznych badań, pp. 7-8,28.
67 P. Wawrzyniak, J. Pietrzak, Przyczynek do badań, p. 823, footnote 5.
68 Z. Kurzawa, A. Kusztelski, Historyczne kościoły, p. 16.
69 Ibidem, pp. 28,128.
70 A. Grzybkowski, Wczesnogotycki kościół, p. 74.
71 The excavation madę in 1958, reaching the rood wali, did not reveal the existence of a rood
screen, see: ibidem, p. 35.
72 M. Andrałojć, H. Klunder, Opracowanie archeołogicznych badań, pp. 8-9.
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Zawichost,60 the Dominican churches in Kraków61 and Wrocław,62 whereas
traces of choir partitions of unknown form were also discovered in Gdańsk63
and Kamień Pomorski.64 Perhaps there was a passage in the northern wali of the
nave allowing the monks to get to the lectorium directly from the cloisters, as
it had been established, for example, with respect to the Dominican churches
in Kośice and Buda.65
It is not certain whether the planned rood screen was completed. Eugeniusz
Linette and Andrzej Grzybkowski omitted this issue entirely, whereas the opin-
ions of other researchers on the subject are divided. During the archaeological
research, no traces of the structure erected on the prepared footings were found,
which prompted the researchers to conclude that the construction of the rood
screen had never progressed beyond the level of the foundations.66 Their view
was recently shared by Piotr Wawrzyniak and Janusz Pietrzak,67 while Andrzej
Kusztelski and Zofia Kurzawa offered contradictory information in their work,
first recognizing that the rood screen had been created,68 and later describing it
as a merely planned, ultimately unrealized structure.69 In Grzybkowskis opin-
ion, the Mendicants’ use of a specific architectural type in this part of Europę,
one that combined a long nave with an elongated choir, already distinguished
two zones of the tempie,70 which might have justified the abandonment of the
project. No traces of a rood screen have been found in the Dominican church
in Sieradz, for example.71 In the case of the Poznań church, the border between
the choir and the western part of the church intended for the faithful might have
been additionally emphasized by a very narrow chancel opening with a clear-
ance of only 4.2 m and the choir floor raised by 35 cm.72 Perhaps after the death
of the founder, the brethren considered it a priority to complete the construc-
tion of the nave and make the church available to the faithful, while abandoning
the construction of a rood screen. However, it seems morę likely that the latter
was indeed constructed. This is supported by the aforementioned Dominican
60 P. Paj or, Podwójny klasztor franciszkański w Zawichoście, in: Architektura sakralna w początkach
państwa polskiego (x-xiii wiek), T. Janiak, D. Stryniak (eds.), Gniezno 2016, pp. 527-528.
61 M. Szyma, Kościół i klasztor, p. 91.
62 E. Małachowicz, Wczesnośredniowieczna architektura kościoła Dominikanów we Wrocławiu,
“Kwartalnik Architektury i Urbanistyki. Teoria i Historia”, 20,1975, no. 1, pp. 20,22-23.
63 M. Szyszka, Romański kościół pw. św. Mikołaja i trzynastowieczny zespółpodominikański w świetle
badań archeologicznych na stan. 5 w Gdańsku, in: Architektura romańska w Polsce. Nowe odkrycia
i interpretacje. Materiały z sesji naukowej w Muzeum Początków Państwa Połskiego, Gniezno,
9-11 kwietnia 2008 roku, T. Janiak (ed.), Gdańsk 2009, pp. 627-628.
64 H. Kustosz, A. Sobucki, Odkrycie rełiktów średniowiecznego kościoła kłasztornego dominikanów
pw. św. Idziego w Kamieniu Pomorskim. Wstępne wyniki badań architektoniczno-archeologicznych,
“Materiały Zachodniopomorskie”, N.S., 12,2016, pp. 487,513.
65 R. Rusnak, M. Volovar, Zaznamenał Ałexander Canovał v 17 staroci dispoziciu dominikanskeho
kłaśtora v Kośiciach?, “Vychodoslovensky pravek”, 10, 2013, pp. 171-187.
66 M. Andrałojć, H. Klunder, Opracowanie archeołogicznych badań, pp. 7-8,28.
67 P. Wawrzyniak, J. Pietrzak, Przyczynek do badań, p. 823, footnote 5.
68 Z. Kurzawa, A. Kusztelski, Historyczne kościoły, p. 16.
69 Ibidem, pp. 28,128.
70 A. Grzybkowski, Wczesnogotycki kościół, p. 74.
71 The excavation madę in 1958, reaching the rood wali, did not reveal the existence of a rood
screen, see: ibidem, p. 35.
72 M. Andrałojć, H. Klunder, Opracowanie archeołogicznych badań, pp. 8-9.
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