Fortified Church Şeica Mică

Originally, the village was a subservient community; however, in 1318 it already got the status of a free village on Crown Land. A three-aisled Gothic basilica with pillar arcades was built in the 14th century and dedicated to Saint Catherine. The buttress-supported choir has a 5/8 apse and a cross-ribbed vault. Both the chancel arch and the arches between the nave and the aisles have Gothic profiling. Today the nave and the aisles display a flat ceiling. The three-storey stone bell tower stands in the west wing of the church. Its basement storey forms a porch before the actual church hall. The west portal profiled jambs display a leaf-decorated capital frieze. The choir has five Gothic traceried windows and it was heightened during the early 16th century fortification work that the church was submitted to. It was strengthened by a defence storey standing on raised buttresses and was equipped with loopholes and corbelled brattices. The bell tower got an additional defence storey and a truss-frame-supported wall-walk. A second tower was built 11m before the west tower. In between, there is the fountain court surrounded by 14m-high walls. There is a wall-walk on raised brick arches along the inner side of the wall. In 1825, the outer tower got its present-day spire roof. The church was surrounded by a double enclosing wall, and strengthened by a semicircular tower in the north and by a tower with a single-pitched roof in the east.

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