Fortified Church Buneşti

The fortified church stands in the centre of the village on flat ground in the southern part of the green, on which later houses were built. A three-aisled pier arcade basilica was built here at the end of 13th century in the transitional style from Romanesque to Gothic. The nave is separated from the aisles by five pairs of flattened ogival arches. What has been preserved from this church are the choir with its 3/6 apse, the arcades of the nave and the vestry in the northern part of the choir. The reconstruction works, undertaken around 1500, brought about the destruction of the aisles, the bricking up of the arcades and of the west portal. Access into the church is gained by the south and the north portals. The choir got an outjutting defence storey with meurtrieres placed in the inclined projection. Both the nave and the tower were strengthened with buttresses and a round-arch-supported defence storey was built above the church hall The nave was provided with a star-web vault. A massive bell tower was built in the west wing. . The tower got its present-day neo-Gothic look in 1847. Timber-trussed galleries, partially two-storeyed, were erected on the walls of the church hall in the 17th-18th centuries.