Nordborg / Norburg
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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
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BH01: human figure - head - 4
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2011
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Berggren, 2002
Image Source: Berggren (2002: pl 11 on p. 157)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 08840NOR
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: Nordborg kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Anthony [medieval dedication]
Church Address: Pøl, Tontoft 1, 6430 Nordborg, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 23 61 37 29
Site Location: Sønderjylland, Syddanmark, Denmark, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on Als, at the N end of road 405, in the municipality and about 20 km N of Sønderborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Haderslev Stift
Historical Region: Als Nørre hr., Sønderborg amt, Haderslev stift. Sønderjylland
Font Notes:
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Listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Paradise group (Visby type - quatrefoil bowl), made of Gotland limestone. Described and illustrated in Berggren (2002). The quatrefoil basin is decorated with a broad-ribbed pattern on the sides and underbowl; the upper basin side has a thin scotia just below the rim; this font is also decorated with humand heads at the basin side. Noted and illustrated in Nordenskirker [www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Nordborg_kirke/Nordborgals_kirke.htm]: "Døbefonten er en senromansk kalkstensfont fra Gotland, på kummen ses hoveder og rundbuede bægerblade. Fonten er registreret i Mackeprang - Importerede kalk og sandstensfonte - Østlig import - Rundbuede bægerbladsfonte."
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 547264 6101697
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 55.05981, 9.73997
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 55° 3′ 35.32″ N, 9° 44′ 23.89″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Gotlandic limestone)
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, quatrefoil, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
REFERENCES
- Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 183