Gadstrup / Gadstorp / Garsthorp
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view of font - south side
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view of font - east side
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design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: around the upper rim of the basin
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design element - motifs - vine - palmette
Scene Description: a wide band of foliage motif just under the upper rim
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: no drain
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font in context
Scene Description: by the side of the north pillar of the chancel arch -- not its original location
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view of church interior - chancel - statue - Trinity
Scene Description: located in a wall niche, near the font
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view of font in context
![the medieval font still in use at present with Sognepræst [vicar] Malene Guassora officiating a well-attended baptism](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161023005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the medieval font still in use at present with Sognepræst [vicar] Malene Guassora officiating a well-attended baptism
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gadstrup Sogn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.gadstrupkirke.dk] [accessed 23 October 2016]
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design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: at the round top of the base
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: on the four panels od the sides of the base, each slightly different from the others
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04880GAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2002-08-01
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Kalundgbord-type
Cognate Fonts: Kalundgbord?
Church / Chapel Name: Gadstrup kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Church Notes: church buily ca. 1100, of which only the nave remains; tower of ca. 1400
Church Address: Dyssegårdsvej 30D, 4621 Gadstrup, Danmark
Site Location: Roskilde, Syddanmark, Denmark, Europe
Directions to Site: Located about 10 kms S of Roskilde, and in its municipality, 20 km SW of Copenhagen
Ecclesiastic Region: Roskilde Stift
Historical Region: Sjælland
Font Notes:
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Illustrated and briefly described in Benzon (1973: 227-rettelsesblad) as a granite baptismal font of the Romanesque period; he typifies it as "Kalundborg typen". The hemispheric basin has a ope motif at the upper rim and a wide band of foliage pattern below it. The base is pyramidal with a rope motif at the round top and foliage twirls on the four panels of the square lower part.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 317143 6161671
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
- Benzon, Gorm, Vore gamle kirker og klostre, København: Lademann, 1973, ill. and caption on p. 227-rettelsesblad