St. George's church, Slovenske Konjice, Parish church in Slovenske Konjice, Slovenia
St. George's Church stands in the upper part of Slovenske Konjice's old square, below the former Trebnik Castle park. Its rectangular nave of pre-Romanesque proportions dates from the late 13th century, with a cross-ribbed side nave added before 1464, a three-sided presbytery with external buttresses, a west bell tower, and a Baroque Rosary chapel with a dome and lantern added in 1740.
The parish is first documented in 1146, in a charter of Patriarch Peregrin I of Aquileia; the present Gothic church replaced an earlier building, with its main nave begun in the late 13th or early 14th century. Before 1369 a burial chapel of the Konjice nobility, dedicated to St. James, was added to the north side and later converted into a side nave. Under parish priest Valentin Fabri (1481–1507) the flat ceiling was replaced by a net vault, and in 1740 the Baroque Rosary chapel was added.
The church was the centre of a parish first documented in 1146, when it belonged to the Patriarchate of Aquileia. A cemetery surrounded it until 1799; a few tombstones remain, and a charnel house is recorded. The Rosary chapel, added in 1740, holds a 1887 altar by the Furlan master Tomaž Fantoni.
The church stands in the upper part of the old medieval square, Stari trg, below the former park of Trebnik Manor and at the foot of Konjiška gora. A tabernacle wall from the Turkish raids partly surrounds it. The former churchyard, used until 1799, is marked only by a few tombstones.
The main nave's ribbed vault, installed under parish priest Valentin Fabrij between 1487 and 1497, carries a keystone with his coat of arms: a horseshoe and hammer. The vault is attributed to an unidentified workshop also active at Dobrla vas, Globasnica and Šmartno pri Slovenj Gradcu.
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