Thorum / Torum
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Thorum kirke (Skive) [...] fra sydvest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bococo, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2 January 2006 Bococo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thorum_kirke_(Skive).JPG] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ClausNe, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 15 February 2019 by ClausNe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Thorum_III.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paw Pedersen, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Paw Pedersen [http://www.korttilkirken.dk/kirkerT/thorum.htm] [accessed 10 March 2023]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
human figure - 16?
Scene Description: hieratic figures, some carrying staves, etc.
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 © Mackeprang, 1941 / 2003
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941/2003)
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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 - spur - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mackeprang, 1941 / 2003
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mackeprang (1941/2003)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00493TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Vestjylland, Salling of Himmerland group (III. Salling) [Mackeprang]
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Lyby
Church / Chapel Name: Thorum kirke / Torum kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Address: Sølvvej 5A, Thorum, 7870 Roslev, Denmark
Site Location: Viborg, Midtjylland, Denmark, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 551 [aka Fur Landevej], 8 km NE of Roslev, about 21 km N of Skive
Ecclesiastic Region: Viborg Stift
Historical Region: Nørre Herred
Font Notes:
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Noted in J.P. Trap [et al.] Kongeriget Danmark / 3. Udgave 4. Bind : Hjørring, Thisted, Aalborg, Viborg og Randers Amter, in the Project Runeberg [http://runeberg.org/trap/3-4/0655.html] [accessed 10 March 2023]: "Mærkelig romansk firkløverbl ad formet Granitdøbefont med Menneskefigurer." In Drake (2002), a font similar to the one at Lyby. Listed and illustrated in Mackeprang (1941/2003) as a granite font in the Vestjylland, Salling of Himmerland group (III. Salling). Granite font of very high quality with 16th-century baptismal dish [source: https://www.visitdenmark.se/danmark/planera-resan/thorum-church-gdk602098] [accessed 8 March 203]
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 503371 6288675
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.74206, 9.05511
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 44′ 31.42″ N, 9° 3′ 18.4″ 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
- Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941, p. 37, 57, 170, 187, pl. 192-195