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Kostol sv. Juraja

Slovakia

You reach the Church of St George in Stará Halič through a ring of masonry, a fortification wall roughly 1.7 metres high that encloses both the church and its wooden bell tower. It is low enough to see over, yet it still sets the pair apart from the village around them. The church itself has no tower: a single nave, a polygonal presbytery, a sacristy added on, white walls and a shingle roof. The look is deliberate. A mid-twentieth-century repair gave it an ochre façade and red clay tiles, which the source calls an alien appearance, and in the following decade it was returned to white render and shingles.

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