Malt nr. Vejen

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion - riding the lion

Scene Description: the faint incised contours behind the archer are now very difficult to discern; it is believed that the font was originally painted and the scene fully visible

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with sword and shield - fighting

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the font; unfortunately the incised tail expansion is lost in this image

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2002 by BSI

animal - reptile - snake

Scene Description: the broad moulding becomes the body of the snake whose head is seen here in the foreground

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a broad one which turns into a snake

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: atop the short stem

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at the top of the lower base, below the stem

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

human figure - warrior - 2 - fighting

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

human figure - warrior - 2 - fighting - archer vs. centaur wielding shield and sword

Scene Description: the centaur only partially visible on the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

symbol - tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: faintly incised between the two figures

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

symbol - tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: faintly incised between the two figures

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: pair of 1987 photographs by Agner Frandsen taken under special conditions to highlight the faintly incised patterns; the image above shows the Tree of Life (?) incissons; the one below traces the figure of Samsom riding-fighting the lion

Image Source: digital image of photographs taken in 1987 by Agner Frandsen, reproduced in Danmarks kirker (Malt herred, Ribe amt) [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2803-2840.pdf] [accessed 16 October 2016]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the centaur of the Malt font as illustrated in Agner Frandsen

Image Source: digital image of a 1987 illustration in Agner Frandsen [accessed 16 October 2016]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: detail of the centaur of the Malt font as illustrated in Agner Frandsen

Image Source: digital image of a 1987 illustration in Agner Frandsen [accessed 16 October 2016]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: no drain hole

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2007 by Bococo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malt_kirke_(Vejen).jpg] [accessed 16 October 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the old font visible at the far [east] end

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2002 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 1997 by BSI

view of font - southeast view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2002 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, not its original location

Image Source: digital photographin in Niels Jørgen Dinnesen's 'Tilfældets mystik: Om farmor Matheas og farfar Johannes’ slægter i Ribe amt' [www.dinnesen.com/texts/Tilfaeldets_mystik_2.html] [accessed 16 October 2016]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font in context - west view

Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, just before the presbitery; on the basin the fight scene between the centaur [left] and the warrior [right]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00192MAL

Church/Chapel: Malt kirke

Church Location: Jelshøjvej 1A, 6600 Vejen, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 75 38 23 94

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Jylland, Syddanmark

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Vejen, and just W of it and Askov, between Esbjerg and Kolding

Ecclesiastic Region: Ribe Stift

Historical Region: Malt herred. Ribe amt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the central aisle

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Church Notes: early-12th church; restored late-16th, 17th and 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed and illustrated in Danmarks kirker (Malt herred, Ribe amt) [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2803-2840.pdf] [accessed 16 October 2016] with full identification of the carved as well as the incised scenes and motifs; this source notes that the font was totally stripped of its paint in 1883, and placed in its current position in 1984. On-site notes: the baptismal font is of composite make: the basin is granite and the base is sandstone(?); large hemispherical granite basin ornamented with four figures engaged in fight, arranged at 90-degree angles; the four figures are in two sets: the first set has a centaur with a shield and sword fighting an archer [which is the reverse of the arch-and-arrow wielding centaur more common in Scandinavian fonts]; the tail of the centaur becaomes a flare of foliage ornamentation; the second set has two foot soldiers with shield and sword fighting each other; lightly incised between these figures are floral motifs [Tree of life?], very faint and difficult to see; the other set of incisions is behind the archer, also very difficult to discern, a scene of Samsom fighting the lion. The stem is plain but for a moulding atop; the lower base is round-to-square and has two mouldings on the round part, the lower one turns out to be a snake body whose head rests at one of the corners of the square volume. The font has no cover now but a metal baptismal dish of the late 16th century gets placed on the stone font and is used for baptisms.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.469988, 9.069332

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 28′ 11.96″ N, 9° 4′ 9.59″ E

UTM: 32U 504383 6147095

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (basin) sandstone (base)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: round (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 7.5-8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 72-73 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 54 cm*

Basin Total Height: 68 cm*

Height of Base: 21 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm* / 88 cm**

Square Base Dimensions: 53 x 53 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Danmarks kirker [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941