Skellerup
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Results: 21 records
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker, 2014
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]
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker, 2014
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker, 2014
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]
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BU04: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker, 2014
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker, 2014
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]
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head - grotesque or fantastic
Scene Description: several (3?), mascaron-like, on the upper curves of the base
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human figure - head - 6
Scene Description: putti? cherubs?
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symbol - heart - Sacred Heart
Scene Description: crossed by a sword (?)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: medieval
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view of font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05412SKE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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:
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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; p. 101-118