Svenstrup / Svendstrup

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - gardant - bi-corporate

Scene Description: with a smiling almost-human head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - bi-corporate

Scene Description: smiling?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

human figure - female - exposed breasts - being devoured by a dragon

Scene Description: the tail of the dragon runs left-to-right under the pilgrim`s feet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

human figure - male - pilgrim - with staff in his right hand - wearing pilgrim shell

Scene Description: on the west side of the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the head of one of the bi-corporal lions

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the head of the pilgrim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the pilgrim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the hand hlding the staff and the pilgrim shells

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the pilgrim; note the tail of the snake under his feet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the head of the seonc bi-corporal lion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the woman being devoured by a dragon

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: legs of one of the bi-corporal lions on the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: pilgrim's feet, lions's paws and tail, dragon's tail converge on the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the rump and tail of one of the bi-corporal lions, and the head of the dragon swallowing the bare-breasted woman

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: body, legs, tail and the odd pendant-like object of one of the bi-corporal lions

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - northwest side

Scene Description: the body of one of the bi-corporal lions and the pilgrim next to it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel

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view of church interior - monument

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - window

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the northweast corner of the nave, by the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of iconographic program

Scene Description: the drawing shows the lower underbowl details that tend to get lost in the photographs

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Slomann (1967)

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 06429SVE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Svenstrup kirke [originally Sankt Morten Kirke

Church Patron Saints: St. Morten

Church Location: Skipper Clements Vej 48, 9230 Svenstrup J, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 98 38 36 05

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Århus / Aarhus, Midtjylland

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the E20, about 15 km NNE of Randers

Ecclesiastic Region: Ålborg Stift

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Himmerland-Mariagertypen, Mariagergruppen-A [Mackeprang] / Hov family [Slomann]

Cognate Fonts: Hov, Gassum, Vester Tørslev, etc.

Church Notes: church here ca.1150-1200

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Solmann (1967) as a granite font of the Hov group. On-site notes: granite baptismal font probably of the Romanesque peroid, consisting of a roughly hemispheric basin raised on a small plain and round pedestal base; the basin sides are ornamented with a programme of human figures and lions not dissimilar in style with those on the fonts at nearby Gassum and Vester Tørslev; the subjects, however, are different: the two bi-corporal passant-gardant lions are standard; the male mustachioed figure between two of the lions, is a pilgrim, decked with staff, shell insignia, etc.; on the opposite side a bare-breasted woman is bein swallowed by a dragon, the tail of which runs along the right side under the lion and the pilgrims feet; the body of the dragon is feathered.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.978333, 9.837222

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 58′ 42″ N, 9° 50′ 14″ E

UTM: 32V 550888 6315286

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (moubted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 9.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 89 cm

Basin Depth: 41 cm

Basin Total Height: 60-61 cm

Height of Base: 30-33 cm [includes the thickness of the joint]

Font Height (less Plinth): 93-95 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on site

REFERENCES

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

Slomann, Vilhelm, Bicorporates: Studies in Revivals and Migrations of Arts Motifs, Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1967