Felsted nr. Åbenrå / Feldstedt

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animal - mammal - horse - saddled - 2

Scene Description: one of them is visible here, to the sright of the ship [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital scan of a ca. 1941 B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941)

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animal - mammal - quadruped - passant

Scene Description: unidentified quadruped passant to the right

Image Source: edited detail of a Image digital photograph by Digitalfoto.dk [http://www.yesterdaysfoto.dk/kirker/f-kirker/felsted kirke aabenraa/felsted.html] [accessed 6 January 2023]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: around the top of the lower base

Image Source: digital scan of a ca. 1941 B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941)

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: on the stem

Image Source: digital scan of a ca. 1941 B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941)

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital scan of a ca. 1941 B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941)

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human figure - on a boat - boat with a rudder - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a Image digital photograph by Digitalfoto.dk [http://www.yesterdaysfoto.dk/kirker/f-kirker/felsted kirke aabenraa/felsted.html] [accessed 6 January 2023]

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hunting scene - stag or deer hunting - with dog - with horn

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

symbol - floral - flower - lily

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Image Source: digital scan of a ca. 1941 B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941)

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view of church exterior - bell tower

Scene Description: Source caption: "Felsted (Aabenraa Kommune), the belltower, the churchyard" -- the bell tower of 1769

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Felsted-church-3.jpg] [accessed 6 January 2023]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Felsted Kirke, Danmark"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 January 2017 by Erik Christensen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Felsted.Kirke.3.JPG] [accessed 6 January 2023]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Felsted (Aabenraa Kommune), the village church, the churchyard"

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Felsted-church-1.jpg] [accessed 6 January 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: [NB: at the time of this photograph [ca. 1941?] the lower base was half covered in the flooring, burying the part of the side that has the animal carving]

Image Source: digital scan of a ca. 1941 B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00211FEL

Church/Chapel: Kirche zu Feldsted / Felsted Kirke Åbenrå

Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]

Church Location: Kirkevej 17, Felsted, 6200 Aabenraa, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 21 84 07 27

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Sydjylland, Syddanmark

Directions to Site: Located off (S) road 41 [aka Sønderborgvej] and N of highway 8, in the municipality and 12 km SE of Åbenrå, NNE of Flensburg

Ecclesiastic Region: Haderslev Stift

Font Location in Church: Inisde the church, in the chancel, N side

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sundevedgruppen [Mackeprang]

Church Notes: Romanesque church built over two or three periods in the 13thC(?) the latter in srone and on a new site from tyhe original wooden building; detached belltower 1769; 19thC north porch; church restored 1953

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Noted and illustrated in Mackeprang (1941) as one of the Sundevedgruppen fonts. Noted in Nordström (1984) as a Romanesque baptismal font made of granite decorated with figures, animals and floral symbols, one of the scenes being that of Jonah about to be swallowed by a whale. The entry for this church in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Sjyll_1870-1889.pdf] [accessed 6 January 2023] describes a Romanesque baptismal font here made of granite and bearing a scene of hunting on the basin, the hunter with a horn and two dogs chasing a deer, a stylised lillym separates two facing horses saddled up and carrying flags, and a four-person boat with a large steering oar handled by one of them; the DK entry mentions the 16th-century brass baptismal dish and the font cover of 1692. The entry for this church in https://kirche.dk/ng/kirchen/tingleff/feldstedt/ [accessed 5 January 2022] describes a Romanesque baptismal font here much in the same terms as in BK above: "Romanisch ist auch der Taufstein aus Granit. Auf dein Taufstein sind Reliefs zu sehen: ein Jäger mit Lanze und Jagdhorn, der mit seinen beiden Hunden eine Hirschkuh jagt eine stilisierte Lilie ein Boot mit vier Personen und großem Steuerruder zwischen zwei gesattelten Pferden, beide mit aufragendem Reiter an den Seiten. In dem steinernen Becken befindet sich eine bronzene Taufschale mit einer Darstellung des Sündenfalls und in einem Holzring in dänischer Aufschrift das Wort Jesu: Laßt die Kindlein zu mir kommen. Auf dem Taufdeckel von 1692 stehen Engel mit den Leidenswerkzeugen." The Wikipedia entry [https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felsted_Kirke] [accessed 6 January 2023] describes a Romanesque baptismal font made of granite 85 cm wide; the decorations include a hunting scene, a hunter chasing a deer with his two dogs, a stylised lilly, a boat with fours persons and a large tiller between two saddled horses; the lower base has crude heads at the corners and one side has a quadruped on it; the same source notes the font had been painted grey: "Døbefonten er romansk og af granit, med seks relieffer på den 85 cm brede kumme: en jæger med spyd og jagthorn jager med sine to hunde en hjort; en stiliseret lilje skiller denne scene fra de næste: en båd med fire personer og stor styreåre imellem to opsadlede heste. Foden er No cover presentfirkantet fod med hjørnehoveder og på hver side et udyr. Tidligere gråmalet. "

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.97411, 9.49704

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 58' 27" N, 9° 29' 49" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Danmarks Kirker

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1682

Material: wood,

Apparatus: pulley

Notes: painted

REFERENCES

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984