Lyby
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view of font - south side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lyby kirke, døbefont"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Lybyx12.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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human figure - 16?
Scene Description: there appear to be four stylised figures on each lobe of the quatrefoil basin; one of them, seen here in the centre, carries a procesional cross; another, on the left, carries an episcopal or abbatial staff
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Lybyx12.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
![Source caption: "Lyby kirke (Skive) [...] fra sydvest"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230310001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lyby kirke (Skive) [...] fra sydvest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bococo, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 3 January 2006 by Bococo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyby_kirke_(Skive).jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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view of church interior - looking southeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ClausNe, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2022 by ClausNe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Lyby_(Salling)_01.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche in Lyby Taufbecken "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ClausNe, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2022 by ClausNe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Lyby_(Salling)_03.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Lybyx12.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Lybyx12.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Lybyx12.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mackeprang, 1941 / 2003
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941/2003)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mackeprang, 1941 / 2003
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941/2003)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph from Drake (2002) scanned 9 March 2023
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mackeprang, 1941 / 2003
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941/2003)
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph from Drake (2002) scanned 9 March 2023
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00492LYB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Vestjylland, Salling of Himmerland group (III. Salling) [Mackeprang]
Church / Chapel Name: Lyby Kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: 12thC church
Church Address: Lyby, Lybyvej 14, 7800 Skive, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 97 57 46 97
Site Location: Viborg, Midtjylland, Denmark, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 26, 4 km S of Roslev, S of Jebjerg, NNW of Skive
Ecclesiastic Region: Viborg Stift
Historical Region: Nørre Herred, Viborg amt, Jylland
Font Notes:
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A drawing of this font by V. Ahlmann is listed in Tegninger af Ældre Nordisk Architektur, 5 hefte (Kjøbenhavn: H. Hagerups, 1885). Listed and illustrated in Mackeprang (1941/2003) as a granite font in the Vestjylland, Salling of Himmerland group (III. Salling). Listed and illustrated in Drake (2002). Baptismal font consisting of a quatrefoil-shaped basin -inside and out- each lobe of which is decorated with four(?) stylised hieratic human figures; raised on a moulded round pedestal base that has leaves at 90-degree angles on the lower level. No cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 500490 6277937
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.6456, 9.007997
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 38′ 44.16″ N, 9° 0′ 28.79″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: quatrefoil, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoiled
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 105, 108 and pl. 207
- Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941, p. 57, 170, 187, pl. 192, 193-195