Odder / Oddræth

Results: 35 records

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animal - mammal - lion - passant - tail over its back - 2 - facing each other

Scene Description: this one, from one of the two pairs, bearing a friendly smile, passant to the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - passant - tail over its back - 2 - facing each other

Scene Description: this one, from the second pair, also with a smile on its face, passant to the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: several trefoiled or fleur-de-lis on the sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around the sides of the conical base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: a pair of vertical ropes framing the foliage scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: around the upper rim border

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: at the very bottom of the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - foliage scroll

Scene Description: a vertical one, seen here in the centre, between the heads of the lions

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: all around the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

information

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information

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symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - in a circle

Scene Description: between the rumps of the lions and surrounded by foliage and other motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of base - detail

Scene Description: old(?) paint remaining on one of the floral motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - east side - detail

Scene Description: an almost identical decoration as the corresponding one on the west side, but here the lions are reversed: the frontal head on the left [gardant] and the profile head on the right -- the red paint may be remains from the time when the font was totally painted and gilded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the wooden ring fitted to support the baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north porch

Scene Description: "våbenhuset"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - tombstone

Scene Description: two of them set on the wall by the entrance to the north "våbenhuset"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - tombstone

Scene Description: two of them set on the wall by the entrance to the north "våbenhuset"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - crucifix

Scene Description: probably a copy of the original in the National Museum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - Crucifixion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - Last Supper

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

view of font

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view of font - west side

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view of font in context - southeast side

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view of font in context - west side

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view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2023 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05009ODD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Odder Sognekirke

Church Location: Kirkesti 1, 8300 Odder, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 87 80 25 30

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Midtjylland, Jylland

Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 451, 16 km SE of Skanderborg, 20 km S of Århus

Ecclesiastic Region: Århus Stift

Historical Region: Hads Herred, Århus amt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the chancel arch

Date: 1225

Century and Period: 13th century (early), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Horsenstypen [Mackeprang]

Cognate Fonts: Other fonts of this type in the same area

Church Notes: mid-12thC(?) church; much modified ca. 1500; expanded ca. 1700; medieval golden altar-front in the National Museum of Copenhagen

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed and illustrated in Mackeprang (1941) as a baptismal font of the Horsenstypen of Jutland. Listed and illustrated in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Aarhus_2519-2581.pdf] [accessed 10 December 2024]. Described and illustrated in Kunstchätze... (1991: 41, 42) as a chalice-shaped Romanesque baptismal font; the shape is a traditional chalice: hemispherical basin and a conical base with a large ring moulding on its top. The basin sides are framed on top and bottom by thin rope motifs, with vertical identical motifs dividing the basin sides into segments; there are two pairs of beatiful low-relief lions on the sides, as well as some one cross-in-a-circle symbol, and other foliage motifs; on the undernowl, between two horizontal rope mouldings, a band of scallop pattern. The centre-ring -part of the lower stone- is plain; the cone of the base is covered with foliage motifs framed in triangles. The same source [cf. supra] inform that this is one of a group of similar-looking fonts in eastern Jutland. The font appears to be in excellent shape. Udvalgte Middelalder kirker i Ostjylland (1997: 119) illustrates this font as an example of the "Horsenstypen".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.97283, 10.15303

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 58′ 22.19″ N, 10° 9′ 10.91″ E

UTM: 32U 571961 6203656

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (red)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: chalice-shaped -- round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 10 cm**

Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm* / 81 cm**

Basin Depth: 28 cm**

Basin Total Height: 46 cm**

Height of Base: 54 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm* / **

Notes on Measurements: * Danmarks Kirker

REFERENCES

Danmarks Kirker, Nationalmuseet i København. Accessed: 2024-12-10 00:00:00. URL: http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk.

Udvalgte Middelalderkirker i Østjylland, Højbjerg, DK: Århus amt Erhvervsafdelingen, 1997

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Jydske Granitportaler, 1944

Norn, Otto, "Et ridderkors", Kirkehistoriske Samlinger, 1980, pp. 11-30.

Viborg Stiftsmueum, Kunstschätze Jütlands, Fünens und Schleswigs aus der Zeit Waldemar des Siegers: Ausstellung des Stiftsmuseums Viborg zur 750 Jahrfeier des Jydske Lov, Viborg: Viborg Stiftsmuseum, 1991