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Island of Koločep, Church near the Jekavac bay (St. George?)

Crkva kod uvale Jekavac (Sv. Djordje?), Црква код увале Јекавац (Св. Ђорђе?)

Properties

Period: between 01.01.0500 and 31.12.0900 – between 01.01.1300 and 31.12.1400

Description

The Church near the Jekavac bay of unknown dedication (perhaps St. George?) is a single nave buildings of three-aisled vaulted division, probably with a dome over the middle vaulted field, and an apse (semicircular on the inside, and rectangular on the outside) The building belonged to a typical variant of churches with niches on the inside and bare surfaces on the outside.
Some researchers believe it was built on the grounds of a Roman and later Early Christian edifice. The assumption that an Early Medieval Church was created by adapting an earlier Early Christian building is supported by the unusual thickness of the walls. The different way of masonry on certain parts of the wall speaks in favor of the dating of the subsequent intervention in the 14th or 15th century.

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