100 The Church of Our Lady od Špilice – St Mary retable / St Joseph retable original design, but was discarded during this conversion. A central vertical cut through the entablatura of both retables and obvious losses in the symmetrical pattern of ornaments of the friezes indicate a reduction in the width of the retables.72 With an additional section of the entablatura edges they were moved closer to the walls, now perfectly aligned with the edge of the triumphal arch. An additional horizontal cut was made on top of the ornamented part of the columns to reduce the height of the retables. The bottom sections of the fluted parts were removed (Fig. 158, 159). The split gable of the Joseph retable was modified further. Both parts show an inserted board with a fragmentary inscription obviously taken from a different context. The right gable part shows an interrupted saw cut at a different angle (Fig. 160). Further losses at the bases of the columns pointing to the choir occurred when a grove was cut out for the protruding railing of the adjacent stone septum (Fig. 161, 162). Fig. 158: Joseph retable: red: cutting lines to reduce the size of the retable; yellow: cutting lines to reduce the size of the frame Fig. 159: Mary retable: cutting lines to reduce the size of the retable; dotted line: cutting lines to reduce the corner elements of the Mary painting
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