Skodborg / Schottburg

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - horseshoe arches

Scene Description: the arches are rather irregular but they are horsehoe-shaped, not round

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

design element - architectural - arch-head - round

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

design element - motifs - tendril - acanthus

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

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: on the west side of the plinth

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

human figure - standing - regardant - 3

Scene Description: are they all female? the circles on the basin side coincide with their heads, which makes them appear to be haloed, presumably intentional; their hands are close, but they are not touching

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

information

Image Source: digital image of a printed inventory page with hand-written annotations [source N/A]

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view of basin - interior

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

view of church exterior - south view

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

view of church interior - south portal

Scene Description: opening into the west end of the nave, by the west gallery

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

view of font - west side

view of font in context - northwest side

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

view of font in context - southwest side

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

view of font in context - west side

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 02096SKO

Church/Chapel: Skodborg kirke

Church Location: Brudepladsen 1, Skodborg, 6630 Rødding, Denmark

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Sydjylland, Syddanmark

Directions to Site: Located off the 403-Skonogvej crossroads, in Sydvestjylland, S of Vejen and road 32, about 20 km WSW of Kolding

Ecclesiastic Region: Ribe Stift

Historical Region: Ribe amt, Jutland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the crossing

Date: ca. 1170? (Carlsson)

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: present church is ca. 1200, a transept added in the mid-19thC; restored mid-20thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Carlsson (1976: 75 and pl. 58) as one of two fonts [the other is the stoup at Dinan - cf. Index entry for Dinan No. 1] in which "men who turn their back towards the spectator and lift the bowl with their arms and hands in this way forming a cradle". On-site notes: hemispherical basin ornamented with acanthus tendrils, also found on the sides of the triangular plinth together with three small animal heads; the base consists of a round shaft ornamented with fluting, as well as three human figures, the front of their bodies against the basin, their arms extended although the fingers do not touch; their faces turned outward in an anatomically impossible neck-breaking twist

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.4187, 9.151697

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 25′ 7.32″ N, 9° 9′ 6.11″ E

UTM: 32U 509603 6141396

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: one (but plinth appears to be cemented to the base)

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken?]

REFERENCES

Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976