Gadstrup / Gadstorp / Garsthorp

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Results: 12 records

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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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: at the round top of the base

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: around the upper rim of the basin

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - palmette

Scene Description: a wide band of foliage motif just under the upper rim

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: no drain

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - statue - Trinity

Scene Description: located in a wall niche, near the font

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

view of font - east side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

view of font - south side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

view of font in context

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]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

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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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 August 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04880GAD
Church/Chapel: Gadstrup kirke
Church Location: Dyssegårdsvej 30D, 4621 Gadstrup, Danmark
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Roskilde, Syddanmark
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Kalundgbord-type
Cognate Fonts: Kalundgbord?
Church Notes: church buily ca. 1100, of which only the nave remains; tower of ca. 1400
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 Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Benzon, Gorm, Vore gamle kirker og klostre, København: Lademann, 1973