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B03: symbol - plant - acanthus - Tree of life?

Scene Description: lin the second arch from the left is a arge plant with three levels of branches; fills the whole arch

Image Source: digital image of a reproduction of a 1904 original by Eigil Rothe, in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2631-2670.pdf] [accessed 8 December 2021]

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animal - bird

Scene Description: in one of the spandrels here

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animal - bird - peacock? - facing each other - 2

Scene Description: On the left three birds. The one in the centre, between the other two, like a chick; the tails of the larger birds quite ornate, which suggests identification as peacocks.

Image Source: digital image of a NE fot. 1986 in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2631-2670.pdf] [accessed 8 December 2021]

Copyright Instructions: No known copryght restriction / Fair Dealing

animal - mammal - 2 - goat - deer - passant

Scene Description: seen here on the right -- the two quadrupeds passant to the rightt; the horned goat follows the antlered deer

Image Source: digital image of a NE fot. 1986 in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2631-2670.pdf] [accessed 8 December 2021]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 10 - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: all around the basin sides, with well-defined capitals and bases

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a NE fot. 1992 in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2631-2670.pdf] [accessed 8 December 2021]

Copyright Instructions: No known copryght restriction / Fair Dealing

design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Scene Description: in one of the spandrels here

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a NE fot. 1992 in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2631-2670.pdf] [accessed 8 December 2021]

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design element - motifs - floral - lily

Scene Description: several of them; in some of the spandrels (one in each)

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: around the upper rim edge

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a NE fot. 1992 in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2631-2670.pdf] [accessed 8 December 2021]

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design element or symbol - unidentified

Scene Description: in the spandrel to the left of St Peter: a scroll?

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a NE fot. 1992 in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2631-2670.pdf] [accessed 8 December 2021]

Copyright Instructions: No known copryght restriction / Fair Dealing

human figure - female - standing - with braided hair - hands on her stomach - Eve?

Scene Description: female figure in the second arch from the right wearing a long pleated skirt; breasts noticeable; hair braided on her left side; Mackeprang suggests identification as Eve.

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human figure - female - standing - with long hair - wearing necklace - holding horn ; left hand on chest/stomach

Scene Description: female figure in the second arch from the left, wearing long pleated skirt; the right hand holds a [drinking?] horn; the necklace could be the V-neck of her upper garment, but it is too obvious

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human figure - female? - standing - long braided hair - wearing cape and hat?

Scene Description: in the rightmost arch; the body of the figure is totally wrapped in the cape, except for the lower edge of the pleated skirt and the feet; a hat or cap appears to be on her head, similar to the "puldet hat" worn by the axman

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human figure - male - long hair - standing - holding lilly sceptre - left hand on the stomach - Adam?

Scene Description: male figure in the rightmost arch; his hair is long but not hanging down; the lilly has a noticeable round end; Mackeprang suggests identification as Adam.

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human figure - male - standing - holding ax - wearing hat - wearing cape - St. Olav?

Scene Description: standing human figure in the centre arch; the cape hides the left arm but shows ther bottom of a pleated skirt underneath; appears to wear a hat; is it St. Olv? [cf. font notes regarding Mackeprang's identification versus Lidén's rejection of same]

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human figure - male - standing - holding key - with padlock? - St. Peter?

Scene Description: short haired figure on the left wearing a long dress; holds a large key in his right hand while the left carries what appears to be a padlock or a pouch; short hair

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human figure - male? - standing - orant pose - wearing chasuble - with curly hair - priest?

Scene Description: in the second arch from the right; Mackeprang and DK suggest identification as spriest, which matches both the pose and the dress; note the visual emphasis on the hair (a statement?)

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symbol - cross

Scene Description: in one of the psandrels here

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symbol - cross - swastika - right-handed

Scene Description: in one of the spandrels

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symbol - plant - acanthus plant - Tree of life? - with 2 birds - doves?

Scene Description: in the centre arch; the two birds (doves?) at the bottom, one on each side, but holding to the trunk of the plant/tree; three levels of branches

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symbol - plant - acanthus plant - Tree of life? - with 3 birds - doves?

Scene Description: in the left arch; a bird (dove?) to either side of the stalk, the third perched on the upper leaves picking (fruit?)

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symbol - plant - acanthus plant? - Tree of life - with 2 animals - goat - deer?

Scene Description: the goat on the right of the tree/plant; the animal on the left too worn to be identified

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a NE fot. 1992 in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2631-2670.pdf] [accessed 8 December 2021]

Copyright Instructions: No known copryght restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vamdrup Kirke."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 September 2020 by Hjart [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vamdrup_Kirke_03.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vamdrup Kirke."

Image Source: digital photograph 22 September 2020 by Hjart [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vamdrup_Kirke_02.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2021]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2015 by BillyDK [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vamdrup_Kirke_alter.JPG] [accessed 8 December 2021]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vamdrup Kirke, skibet set fra koret, 2015"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 30 July 2015 by BillyDK [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vamdrup_Kirke_2015.JPG] [accessed 8 December 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Granit Døbefunt i Vamdrup Kirke 1875 [...] Tegningen sidder i: Dr. I. G. Burman Beckers antiqvarisk-topografiske Samling, Supplement Profileret Gesims i Chorbuen."

Image Source: digital image [BB_62_0094.tif] of a 1875 drawing in Dr. I. G. Burman Beckers antiqvarisk-topografiske Samling, Supplement Profileret Gesims i Chorbuen, in the Det Kgl. Biblioteks billedsamling [Billedsamlingen. Album 62, 2+°] [http://www5.kb.dk/images/billed/2010/okt/billeder/object566296/en/] [accessed 8 December 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05405VAM

Church/Chapel: Vamdrup kirke

Church Patron Saints: [originally dedicated to St. Gregory?]

Church Location: Vestergade 57, 6580 Vamdrup, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 75 58 10 85

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Sønderjylland, Syddanmark

Directions to Site: Located off (W) county road 25, about 10 km WSW of Kolding

Ecclesiastic Region: Ribe Stift

Historical Region: Ribe amt, Anst herred, Sydjylland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, In the centre of the nave, under tha chancel arch (ca. 1900 it was on the north side of the nave, just west of the chancel arch)

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Arkadenfontene [Mackeprang]

Cognate Fonts: Similar, though not identical, to the font at Trinitatis kirke, in Fredericia, and to the font at nearby Anst

Church Notes: late-12thC church; modified late-18thC and 1919;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Danmarks kirker: Ribe amt (Bd. 4, hft. 26: 2653, 2656- 2659, 2665) as a Romanesque baptismal font in reddish granite dated to ca. 1200, probably the work of the same stonemaster who carried out other sculptural work in this same church, since the motifs are similar; cylindrical basin ornamented with a rope moulding at the upper rim; all around the basin sides an arcade of ten round arches with distinct capitals and bases, and a variety of individual motifs in the spandrels (cross, bird, several lillies/fleurs-de-lis, right-handed swastika, etc.); the figures in the arcade are identified as: 1)male figure with large key in his right hand [cf. below for Mackeprang's identification]; 2)acanthus tree / Tree of Life; 3)male figure wearing cape under which a pleated skirt shows; his left hand is hidden; his right hand holds an ax; the source mentions a "puldet hat" [=crown hat] on his head [cf. below for Mackeprang's identification]; 4)female figure with both hands to her stomach; her breasts are noticeable and her hair is braided on her left side; 5)male figure with "full" hair, left hand to his stomach, right hand holds a lilly sceptre; pleated skirt [cf. below for Mackeprang's identification]; 6)plant / Tree of life, with a bird on either side of the stalk and a third one above, picking on the leaves/fruit; the birds resemble doves; 7)female figure with long hair, necklace and long pleated skirt, has left hand to her stomach while the right holds a horn; 8)acanthus plant / Tree of Life with two birds (doves?) on the lower part; 9)male (?) figure wearing alba and chasuble has "wild" curly hair and hands in orant position; 10)female (?) figure with long braided hair on both sides wears locket at her neck and a long cape that hides her arms; under the cape a pleated skirt shows; she may be wearing the same type of hat as the figure no. 3. The program is reported inis same source as being similar to the font now at St. Tinitatis kirke in Fredericia, which was originally from the town of Ullerop in the Vejle amt. The underbowl apears plain, ending in a cylindrical upper base [though this part actually belongs to the same stone block as the basin]. The lower base looks like an upside-down cushion capital: square with rounded upper corners leaving four semicircular sides; of these one is blank, while the other three contain: 1)two stork-like birds facing each other, with a smaller one in between [the shape of the tails suggests peacocks]; 2)acanthus plant / Tree of Life with two quadrupeds, the one on the left is too damaged for identification purposes, but the one on the right is clearly a goat; 3)two animals passant: a deer on the right is followed by a goat on the right, both facing right. Mackeprang (1941: 56ff, 316ff) suggests the folowing identifications for three of the figures: the man with the key, as St. Peter; the man with ax as St. Olav; the female and male to the right of St. Olav, as Eve and Adam. His identification of St. Olav is challenged in Lidén (1998: 66-81), who argues that "on 12th century baptismal fonts there are thus no pictures of Olaf, which are not met with until the early 15th century" (ibid., p. 81). The present location of the font at the centre of the nave, beneath the chancel arch dates, according to DK... [cf. supra], only to 1966; in 1751 the font was located at the est end of the nave; in 1797 it was moved to the northeast corner; the font underwent restoration in 1919-1920, at which time it was moved farther north into the apse; from this location it was moved to the present one, as indicated above.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.42819, 9.27291

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 25′ 41.48″ N, 9° 16′ 22.48″ E

UTM: 32U 517271 6142476

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (reddish)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Danmarks kirker: Ribe amt (Bd. 4, hft. 26: 2658)

REFERENCES

Lidén, Anne, "Nordisk stenskulptur med Olavsmotiv: Kritik och tolkning kring dopfunten i Löderup", 1995-1996, 1998, pp. 66-81; r["References"]

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941

Møller, Elna, Danmarks kirker: Ribe Amt, København: Nationalmuseet - Poul Kristensens Forlag, 1979-