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Dersêta

with tall colonettes supported upon corbels.

Only the north and south walls are well preserved
the former is remarkable for two richly
decorated doorways, in advanced Byzantine
style, and a row of tall round topped
windows, some of which preserve the frames
of fine plate tracery - a single plate
to each window. In every case the
open work is lost, but there is no mistaking
the oringinal purpose of the ruin with its
remnants of tracery. The north wall
preserves a fine, continuous line of round headed
windows and a portal with an open
relieving arch above it. These windows are
moulded [above] and there are deep
mouldings at the base line and the line of
the window sills. The interior was divided
by two rows of six fine Byzantine columns
with spreading capitals and well moulded
bases. The church seems to have been
rich in ornamented within and without.