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The present Calvinist church of Ciumbrud shows a typical architectural arrangement for a village-parish church of Gothic style. Though the unusual width of the southern side-nave and the decorations of the window frames created some suspicions on its chronology. The archaeological research in 2019, which preceded the restoration works on the building, revealed that the building is not medieval, but it is realized entirely at the turn of the 16th an 17th century, in accordance with the date indicated on the stucco decoration of the sanctuary vault: 1701. The addition of the southern and northern side naves and the western towers are even later: they were made at the beginning of the 20th century, Burials and several (Romanesque and Gothic) sculpted stones, recovered during the archaeological research, indicated, however, that a former church-building existed at the site. This was identified in the northern side-nave, and it proved to be a round shaped church, though its ground-plan arrangement it is a reconstruction, as even the foundations were destroyed by later buildings. The chronology of this round church can be established with due cautions, using the guidance offered by the stratigraphy and superpositions. In this sense, it is clear, that the round-church started its existence with the earliest phase of the burials, which can be dated with a coin minted by king Géza II of Hungary. The abandonment and demolition of the church it is not so clear, as the traces of these interventions were not kept. It can be implied, though that it existed until the end of the Middle Ages.

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