Grundhof / Grumtoft

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design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - leaf or petal

Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the underbowl

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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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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: delineating the side panels of the base

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - opposed thread directions

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: all around

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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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information

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information

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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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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 basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: showing three of the heads, faces or masks

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: showing three of the heads, faces or masks

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view of basin - upper view

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view of basin and baptismal dish - upper view

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view of church exterior - 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 - south view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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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 church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2005 by Rote Fingur [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Grundhof.JPG] [accessed 28 March 2010] Reproduced under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06473GRU

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Marienkirche zu Grundfof / Dorfkirche St. Marien

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Holnisser Weg 3, 24977 Grundhof, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4636 261

Country Name: Germany

Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located off (E) road L270, 3-4 km SSE of Langballig, about 16 km E of Flensburg

Historical Region: Langballig Amt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the altar railing, on th N side

Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Horder [aka Horderus] workshop

Credit and Acknowledgements: ue,

Church Notes: 12thC late-Romanesque church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.773711, 9.653947

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 46′ 25.36″ N, 9° 39′ 14.21″ E

UTM: 32U 542067 6069807

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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