Gronbaek / Grønbæk

INFORMATION

FontID: 08837GRO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Grønbæk kirke

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Viborg, Midtjylland

Directions to Site: Located on road 46, about 6 km SE of Ans, 20 km N of Silkeborg

Historical Region: Viborg amt, Jylland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Visby type - quatrefoil bowl)

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Drake (2002: 144, 183) as a baptismal font of the Paradise group (Visby type - quatrefoil bowl), "an interesting hybrid, the quatrefoil form of the bowl being complemented by a quadri-partite base of truncated colonnettes analogous to the font at Gistad".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: five?

Font Shape: chalice-shaped -- quatrefoil (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil

Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002