Grundhof / Grumtoft
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view of font
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: all around
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: a very thin pair, separating the upper vine from the circles containing mostly human heads below
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view of basin - upper view
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - opposed thread directions
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view of basin and baptismal dish - upper view
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human figure - face, head or mask? - 7
Scene Description: inside a set of linked circles, one in each space; one of them crowned
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view of basin - underbowl - detail
Scene Description: showing three of the heads, faces or masks
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design element - motifs - foliage
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design element - motifs - leaf or petal
Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the underbowl
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view of basin - underbowl - detail
Scene Description: showing three of the heads, faces or masks
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: inside the south porch or armoury
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child
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view of church interior - altar and retable
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board
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view of font in context
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rote Fingur, 2005
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: delineating the side panels of the base
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view of base
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: one of the varied heads, faces or masks on the underbowl
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06473GRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2023-06-14
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Horder [aka Horderus] workshop
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Marienkirche zu Grundfof / Dorfkirche St. Marien
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the altar railing, on th N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 12thC late-Romanesque church
Church Address: Holnisser Weg 3, 24977 Grundhof, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4636 261
Site Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road L270, 3-4 km SSE of Langballig, about 16 km E of Flensburg
Historical Region: Langballig Amt
Additional Comments: moved font? not its original position?
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Hein (1966) as a roughly hemispherical mounted baptismal font of the Horder workshop; the upper rim has a rope moulding motif; the basin side below it has an acanthus vine forming ringlets; a thin double roll moulding separates this side from the underbowl; the decoration of the underbowl is rather unusual for Horder in that it includes several human heads of different kinds, some rather grotesque, as well as vegetal motifs, in the sort-of-arcade that adorns it; at the bottom of the underbowl is another rope moulding. As Hein records (ibid.), there are seven human heads, one of them crowned, in a total of ten spaces; the others are filled with acanthus leaves. The base is also unusual for this workshop: it is round at the upper end, then almost square, with vertical sides, and it has the side panels delineated with a very flat moulding rather than the common rope moulding that is found in most of the bases of this workshop. On-site notes: the font is located inside the church, at the east end of the nave, to the left/north side of the altar railing, obviously not its original position.
Credit and Acknowledgements: ue,
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 542067 6069807
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.773711, 9.653947
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 46′ 25.36″ N, 9° 39′ 14.21″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 9 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Basin Depth: 31 cm*
Basin Total Height: 51 cm*
Height of Base: 24 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 43 x 45 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site
REFERENCES
- Hein, H. K., Horder: en Romansk Stenmester, Århus: Århus Kunstforening, 1966, p. 32-33 and fig. 33