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Biserica de lemn din Gruşeţu, comuna Costeşti, judeţul Vâlcea

  • Subiect: The Wooden Church “The Assumption of the Virgin” and “St. George”, from Gruşetu, Costeşti, Vâlcea county, was built before 1801 by the abbot of Bistriţa, Kir Constandie Peloponesiotul, during the rule of the emperor Alexander Moruzi, Bishop of Râmnic being Kir Nectarie. The ensemble consists of the wooden church and the bell tower built between 1840-1843. The church has a rectangular plane (L-14,58m, l-5,37m), with polygonal apse altar, easily separated from the nave, like the antepronaos added by 1885, without a tower. During the archaeological research, made at the beginning of the process of the restoration of the monument, there were found: 16 inscriptions carved in wood, in Cyrillic characters, located on 1-3 rows, letters of 3-6 cm, on the outer walls of the nave and of the altar (the north, east and south sides); 12 graves, 6 near the foundations of the church, around it, and 6 on the east and north side of the church, where the land has been terraced; 7 bricks with inscriptions; a fragmentary stone cross and 6 stone slabs (original crosses, which have deteriorated over time), found in antepronaos foundation (3),one used as a step to enter the altar and two under the wooden floor on the nave. To the foundation, on the east side, it was found an elegant cup, painted on the top, probably a votive light. (?). The function of "register" of death on the outer walls of the church, approach it by another wooden church from Costeşti, the church “The Assumption of the Virgin” of the former hermitage from Grămeşti, considered one of the masterpieces of ecclesiastical wooden architecture in Wallachia.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Arheologie
  • Vezi publicația: Buridava - Studii şi Materiale: Buridava
  • Editura: Offsetcolor
  • Loc publicare: Râmnicu Vâlcea
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2009
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: VII; anul 2009
  • Paginaţia: 93-101
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