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My presentation focuses on two Romanesque matronea churches in Brno, partly still standing. These are monasterial churches which represent a local turn in development of the architecture in Brno; they also affect dating of other sacral buildings. The first one is the Church of St Giles in Komarov whose history is tied to the Provostry of the Benedictine Monastery in Třebič. Locum in luco prope castrum Brenense sancti Benedicti, presumably an uninhabited area from the early 1100’s covered with a riparian forest, was donated to the Třebič Monastery at its founding. Today’s Romanesque stage of the church was preceded by a tiny sacral structure, of which a soil‑connected stone underpinning survived to these days. The Romanesque church had a western annexe, also of a Romanesque style and connected to the church interior. Crinoidea‑limestone was detected in the upper portion of the annexe. And this is an important chronological indicator, since the second matronea church is the Church of St. Cunigunde in the Premonstratensian Monastery in Zabrdovice that was most probably consecrated on March 14, 1211. In this church, Crinoidea‑limestone was also used to build its structural walls. Therefore, the only deposit of this unique stone found at the nearby Stranska skala location was already mined in the 1200’s. However, the findings from these two churches primarily indicate a higher age of the oldest phase of the St. Peter’s church in Brno, which must have been built during the 12th century, since the Crinoidea‑limestone was not used to build it. Then, the stone was commonly used to build newer churches and stone buildings in Brno.