Heldum
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Scene Description: the repaired damage is obvious on the font; notice the diagonal break lines on the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walter Johannesen, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by
Walter Johannesen [www.flickr.com/photos/walter_johannesen/7988273338] [accessed 14 November 2016]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
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design element - motifs - ring - linked rings
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design element - motifs - ring
Scene Description: separate rings
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lemvig Kirkerne, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 19 January 2012 in Lembig Kirkerne [www.lemvigkirkerne.dk/media/6071/301-Heldum-Kirke.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the restored church; the bell-cote is hidden behind the west end of the church here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bococo, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2006 by Bococo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:08-08-09-æ2-Heldum_kirke_(Lemvig).JPG] [accessed 14 November 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lemvig Kirkerne, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 19 January 2012 in Lembig Kirkerne [ww.lemvigkirkerne.dk/media/48976/311-Heldum-kirke-orgel.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the top of the font is visible at the far [east] end of the nave, left [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161114007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible at the far [east] end of the nave, left [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lemvig Kirkerne, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 19 January 2012 in Lembig Kirkerne [www.lemvigkirkerne.dk/media/48979/315-alter-Heldum.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2016]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walter Johannesen, 2012
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design element - motifs - spur - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walter Johannesen, 2012
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05137HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Nordvestjyske type [Mackeprang]
Church / Chapel Name: Heldum Kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the W side of the chancel arch, N side
Church Notes: church ca. 1200?
Church Address: Lemvigvej 15, Heldum, 7620 Lemvig, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 97 82 01 68
Site Location: Ringkøbing, Midtjylland, Denmark, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Lemvig
Historical Region: Ringkøbing amt, Skodborg herred
Additional Comments: painted font (paint removed 1884) / damaged font (damaged in 1908 fire)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ringkobing_0701-0723.pdf] [accessed 14 November 2016], after Mackeprang (1941), as a Romanesque font of reddish granite; it had been painted but the paint was removed in 1884; font damaged in the 1908 fire; in its present location since 1909. In Nyborg (1998- : Bd. 2, hefte 8, p. 714-716; roughly chalice-shaped Romanesque font of reddish granite of the "nordvestjyske type", after Mackeprang (ibid.); the basin is hemispheric with a square-cut rim and a roll-moulding under it; the basin and underbowl are ornamented with two rows of linked corcles all around; the base has an upper ring and four vertical mouldings at the corners, which make its lower base square. No font cover present; small metal baptismal dish in use.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 455295 6267236
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.547334, 8.272893
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 32′ 50.4″ N, 8° 16′ 22.42″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (reddish)
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Nyborg (1998- : Band. 2, heft 8, p. 714) -- height given in Mackeprang and DK as well
REFERENCES
- Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941, p. 156ff
- Nyborg, Ebbe, Danmarks Kirker: Ringkøbing Amt, København: Nationalmuseets Forlag, 1998-, p. 714-716