Fortified Church Beia

A Gothic hall church dedicated to Saint Ursula was built in the second half of the 15th century in the southeast corner of the village green, in the centre of the village. The choir with a 5/8 apse is cross-ribbed-vaulted. The Gothic profiling is recognizable at the west portal and at the traceried windows in the choir. A parapeted timber-framed defence storey was built on buttresses and brick arches at the beginning of 16th century. The bell tower, too, is strengthened with a truss-framed defence storey. The interior is marked by the galleries built on three sides of the church hall in the 18th century. The defence floors of the church and of the choir were demolished in the second half of the 19th century and a neo-Gothic bell tower was built before the west façade of the church. Of the four towers, which once fortified the medieval polygonal enclosing wall, only a hexagonal tower situated in the north-west corner of the church and another with a square ground plan and placed in the southeast corner of the enclosure are still extant at present.