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Hagia Paraskevi, the central church in the city of Chalkis, Euboea, is a three-aisled wooden-roofed basilica which was extensively rebuilt in the late 13th c. when Chalkis was captured by the Venetians. The building, one of the key monuments of Gothic architecture in Greece, underwent four major phases of construction during the early Byzantine, the Byzantine, the Frankish and the Modern period. The alternations which were made to it during the 13th c. include the addition of a rectangular cross-vaulted holy bema and of two rib-vaulted side-chapels. What distinguishes the church from other Frankish monuments of the Greek mainland is its extraordinarily rich sculpture: mainly the Gothic capitals, the corbels and the rib keystones in the two chapels. |
