Stenild

Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
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animal - mammal - lion - gardant

Scene Description: humanised face, with mustache; elaborate mane; striking tail end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Niels Clemmensen [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/stenild-kirke/dobefont/galleri/2189] [accessed 8 August 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
animal - mammal - lion - gardant - tongue sticking out

Scene Description: humanised face, with mustache; elaborate mane; appears to be reclining its front; strikingly floral tail end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Niels Clemmensen [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/stenild-kirke/dobefont/galleri/2189] [accessed 8 August 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
animal - mammal - lion - gardant - tongue sticking out

Scene Description: humanised face, with mustache; elaborate mane; striking tail end resembles acanthus leaf
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Niels Clemmensen [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/stenild-kirke/dobefont/galleri/2189] [accessed 8 August 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
animal - mammal - lion - gardant - tongue sticking out

Scene Description: humanised face, with mustache; elaborate mane; striking tail end resembles acanthus leaf -- the quality and depth of the carving can be appreciated here: notice the perfect curvature of the basin upper surface
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Niels Clemmensen [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/stenild-kirke/dobefont/galleri/2189] [accessed 8 August 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
animal - mammal - lion - gardant - tongue sticking out - 2

Scene Description: humanised faces, both with mustaches, one ointed up, one down; elaborate manes; the lion on the right appears to be reclining its front
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Niels Clemmensen [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/stenild-kirke/dobefont/galleri/2189] [accessed 8 August 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
human figure - female? - head

Scene Description: female or youth? -- 'floating' head -- lion appears to be reclining at the front
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Niels Clemmensen [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/stenild-kirke/dobefont/galleri/2189] [accessed 8 August 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
human figure - male - head - bearded - long hair - long mustache

Scene Description: a 'floating' head -- the beard appears to be braided
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Niels Clemmensen [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/stenild-kirke/dobefont/galleri/2189] [accessed 8 August 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of basin - interior
![the baptismal dish ['Dåbsfadet'] is southern German, ca.1575, but has engraved date of 1636 [source: Aalborg Stift]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160808039_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the baptismal dish ['Dåbsfadet'] is southern German, ca.1575, but has engraved date of 1636 [source: Aalborg Stift]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Niels Clemmensen [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/stenild-kirke/dobefont/galleri/2189] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the old font partially visible by the northeast corner -- this source reports the discovery in 1883 of figural frescoes on on the chancel arch and nearby wall; dated by F. Uldall and J. Kornerup to ca.1250; covered soon thereafter because they were in very poor state.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Niels Clemmensen [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/stenild-kirke/skib/] [accessed 8 August 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0