Gronbaek / Grønbæk

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08837GRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Visby type - quatrefoil bowl)
Church / Chapel Name: Grønbæk kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: church ca. 1200
Church Address: Præstevangen 41, Grønbæk, 8643 Silkeborg, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 86 87 01 05
Site Location: Viborg, Midtjylland, Denmark, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 46, about 6 km SE of Ans, 20 km N of Silkeborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Viborg Stift
Historical Region: Viborg amt, Jylland
Font Notes:
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". The material of the font is dentified as "Hoburgmarmor fra Gotland" in the caption to a 1 September 2007 digital photograph by Nico-dk / Nils Jepsen:"Døbefonten er Danmarks største, fremstillet i kløverform af poleret Hoburgmarmor fra Gotland" [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groenbaek_Kirke_Døbefont.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2025]

COORDINATES

UTM: 32V 538291 6236918
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.275533, 9.618369
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 16′ 31.92″ N, 9° 37′ 6.13″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: five?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, quatrefoil, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: quatrefoiled, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

  • Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 144, 183