Abbey church of St George, Romanesque parish church in Ják, Hungary.

The Abbey Church of St George in Ják is a three-aisled Romanesque basilica with two squat towers and a gabled facade. Its western portal is deeply recessed and multi-tiered, carved with Norman motifs; the tympanum shows Jesus with angels and the twelve apostles. The exterior walls are of pale stone, and the church stands on a high bank above the Sorok stream.

Construction began around 1214 under the initiative of Márton of the Ják kindred and continued through several building phases until the consecration in 1256. The gradual erection explains the different styles and construction forms visible in various parts of the building.

The church is dedicated to Saint George, whose dragon-slaying image was painted on the wall behind the main altar. In front of the facade stands the Chapel of Saint James, built around 1250 as the village parish church because the monastic church served only the monks and the Ják kindred. The ornate southern gate, added under Abbot Ferenc Folnay, bears his coats of arms.

The civilian entrance is the smaller southern gate, reached through the ornate baroque gate in the surrounding wall; the main western portal is the showpiece, not the everyday door. The church stands on a high bank above the Sorok stream in the centre of Ják, about 10 km south of Szombathely, and is visible from afar from the north and east.

The aisles were left with wooden ceilings after the third building phase, when a new workshop unfamiliar with the earlier vaulting technique took over. The north aisle was covered at their discretion, while both side aisles kept timber ceilings. The mismatch between the exterior five column pairs and the interior four still puzzles visitors.