Skellerup

CC-BY-SA-2.5

Results: 21 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

B01: Old Testament - Genesis - the Flood and destruction of mankind - story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17)

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

B02: Old Testament - Genesis - the Flood and destruction of mankind - story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17) - thanksgiving

Scene Description: Noah and his family; a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

B03: Old Testament - Genesis - the Flood and destruction of mankind - story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17) - rainbow over the waters

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(16).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

B04: Old Testament - Genesis - the Flood and destruction of mankind - story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17) - God sends a dove

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(16).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

B05: Old Testament - Genesis - the Flood and destruction of mankind - story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17) - dove carrying an olive branch

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

B06: Old Testament - story of Elijah (Elias) - the ascension of Elijah (2 Kings 2:1-18)

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

BU01: Old Testament - Deuteronomy? - aumbry

Scene Description: [Deut. 10:2-5?] - a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

BU02: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Exodus - crossing of the Red Sea - Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea - Pharaoh and his army drown

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

BU03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Circumcision of Christ

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(16).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

BU04: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(16).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

BU05: Old Testament - Genesis - the Flood and destruction of mankind - story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17) - Noah and the ark

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

BU06: Old Testament - the book of Joshua (Josue) - Joshua parts the waters of the Jordan?

Scene Description: unchecked reference - a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

design element - motifs - scroll

Scene Description: gilded, on the arrises

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(16).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

head - grotesque or fantastic

Scene Description: several (3?), mascaron-like, on the upper curves of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(16).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

human figure - head - 6

Scene Description: putti? cherubs?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(16).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

symbol - heart - Sacred Heart

Scene Description: crossed by a sword (?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(16).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(06).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(01).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(09).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: medieval

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(10).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2009 by Hideko Bondesen; in Nordenskirker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Skellerup(16).jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

INFORMATION

FontID: 05412SKE

Church/Chapel: Skellerup kirke

Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine]

Church Location: Skellerup Byvej 46, 5540 Ullerslev, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 65 35 11 18

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Fyn, Syddanmark

Directions to Site: Located about 10 km W of Nyborg; in the municipality of Ullerslev until 2007; after 2007 in the municipality of Nyborg; on the island of Fyn

Ecclesiastic Region: Fyens Stift

Historical Region: Vindinge hd., Svendborg amt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave

Date: 1666

Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Baroque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Fynsk-gruppe font

Cognate Fonts: The font at Odense No. 2 (Vor Frue kirke) is similar, though not identical

Church Notes: church ca. 1150; expanded 16thC; restored in 1923

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Bach-Nielsen (1998: 108-109) as one of a group of mid-17th century hexagonal mounted baptismal fonts; they are shaped like an hour-glass, both basin and base approximately even in size and ornamentation; the font at Skellerup has no distinguishable basin vs. underbowl, all being one from the upper rim; the painted scenes on these sides are identified in Bach-Nielsen as: 1)the Ark of the Covenant; 2)Noah and his family give thanks to God; 3)the Rainbow after the Flood/Deluge ; 4)God sends a dove (+inscription); 5)a dove carrying an olive branch in its beak over the Flood waters; 6)the prophet Elijah is carried away to heaven. Thick ornate mouldings with putto (?, cherub?) heads and gilded foliage form the arrises of both the basin and the base. There is a centre ring with the Sacred Heart symbol. On the upper curves of the base there are three (?) "mascaron" heads. The sides of the base are ornamented with painted scenes [the numbers match the location of the basin scenes]: 1b)Ark of the Covenant; 2b)the Pharaoh and his army drown in the Red Sea; 3b)the circumcision of child Christ; 4b)the baptism of Christ; 5b)the Flood with Noah and the ark; 6b)Joshua parts the waters of the Jordan. Bach-Nielsen (ibid., 101-118) states that the iconography of these Reformation and Post-Reformation fonts reflects the use of "Luther's christening ritual [that] was introduced from the Taufbüchlein with its three main parts: Matt. 7:7-8, Mark 10:13-16 and Luther's Prayer at the Flood" (ibid., p. 118); he also points out the depiction of "the perilous water" as a "threatening element" in the iconography on these fonts. The font is raised on several (3?, 4?) rounded stumps.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 20' 29.63" N, 10° 39' 30.59" E

UTM: 32U 605187 6133478

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, oak

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Danish

Inscription Location: on one of the sides of the basin

Inscription Text: "Denne er min elskelige Søn i huilcken jeg hafver Behagelighed. Hannem skulle I høre"

Inscription Source: Bach-Nielsen (1998: 108)

REFERENCES

Bach-Nielsen, Carsten, "Efterreformatoriske døbefonte", 1995-1996, 1998, pp. 101-118; r["References"]