Whole building body have 34 monumental tracery windows, most of them tripled. Nine of them with lancet arch, 14 equilateral arch. The church was primarily constructed as fair faced brick work (Flemish bond), the first brick Gothic building in the region but using also stone (for arches, quoins, dripstones, embrasures, dripstones, water tables, plinths gargoyles) from the local area - Stránská skála quarry – crinoid limestone. The building has an inside length of 67,45 metres (38 moravian fathoms), width 28,4 metres (16 moravian fathoms) and a height to the ceiling of 23.07 metres. Transept 40 m. Building as typical Cistercian churches have no tower, only one small flèche (spire) - on the crossing of central nave and transept. The layout of the basilica consists of one nave and two aisles, with the transept crossing the nave and aisles. South side of the transept have now an entrance. Notable individuals Elizabeth Richeza - Queen John of Bohemia - King and cofounder Henry of Lipá - Governor and Magnate, cofounder Gregor Mendel - Abbot and scientist Leoš Janáček - Composer František Klácel - Priest Francis Thomas Bratranek - Priest and Cracow University Rector Pavel Křížkovský - Composer and friar Gallery Services Regular religious services in the Basilic are: Sunday 07:30 Mass, 09:00 Mass, 11:00 Mass Tuesday 18:00 Mass Wednesday 18:00 Mass Thursday 18:00 Mass Friday 18:00 Mass Saturday 08:00 Mass See also Czech Gothic architecture St Thomas's Abbey, Brno Porta coeli Convent Cistercian architecture Further reading KUTAL, Albert, (1972) Gothic art in Bohemia and Moravia.London/New York, Hamlyn ISBN BOEHM, Barbara Drake; et al. (2005). Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. HLOBIL, Ivo (eds. 2000), The Last Flowers of the Middle Ages. From the Gothic to the Renaissance in Moravia and Silesia. Olomouc/Brno. SAMEK, Bohumil (1993), Klášter augustiniánů v Brně. Brno NPU. 62 P. (in Czech) Transport References External links Abbey home page Basilica churches in the Czech Republic Churches in Brno Cistercian Order Gothic architecture in the Czech Republic Cistercian monasteries in the Czech Republic 14th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the Czech Republic National Cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic 1320s establishments in Europe 1323 in Europe