Gjerrild / Gerrild
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B01: animal - mammal - lion - passant - facing each other - bicorporate
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gjerrild_Kirke]
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view of basin
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by Hubertus45
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - painting
Scene Description: part of the mural paintings on the ceiling of the nave; this area near the pulpit
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gjerrild_Kirke]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02298GER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Gjerrild Kirke
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Århus / Aarhus, Midtjylland
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km NW of Grenå, in the municipality of Norrjurs, East Jutland
Historical Region: Østjylland / East Jutland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the east end of the nave, south side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: The altar, pulpit and canopy over the font were re-decorated in 1954 by Mogens Jørgensen (Hartling, 1964, caption of ill. between pages 24-25)
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Udvalgte Middelalderkirker i Østjylland (1997); a round quasi-spherical basin mounted on a round pedestal with centre ring; on one of the basin sides is a bi-corporal lion [to be completed]. A later wooden canopy hangs over the font, painted and with a statue of Madonna and Child as finial. The canopy is illustrated in Hartling (1964)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (mounted)
REFERENCES
Udvalgte Middelalderkirker i Østjylland, Højbjerg, DK: Århus amt Erhvervsafdelingen, 1997
Hartling, Poul, Danish Church, [København?]: Det danske Selskab, 1964