Church or chapel · 1250
Pilistvere Church
German: Pillistfer
St Andrew's church at Pilistvere was probably founded in the second half of the 13th century on the model of the Järvamaa churches, as a three-aisled hall church with a choir slightly wider than the nave. It was built of limestone, fieldstone and brick, with exceptionally thick outer walls, in places up to 2.5 metres. A stair inside the north wall of the nave still leads up above the vaults. In its first building phase only the choir was vaulted, in a so-called Gotland tent vault whose stones run crosswise to the diagonals.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
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Pilistvere Andrease kirik rajati arvatavasti 13. sajandi teisel poolel Järvamaa kirikute eeskujul kolmelöövilise kodakirikuna, mille kooriruum on kesklöövist veidi laiem. See ehitati pae- ja maakividest ning tellistest erakordselt paksude välisseintega, kohati kuni 2,5 meetrit. Pikihoone põhjaseinas asuv müüritrepp viib endiselt võlvide peale. Esimeses ehitusjärgus võlviti vaid kooriruum, nn gotlandi telkvõlviga, mille kivid paiknevad diagonaaltelgedega risti.