Nordborg / Norburg
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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
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BH01: human figure - head - 4
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Image Source: photograph taken 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nordborg_Kirke]
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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
FontID: 08840NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Nordborg kirke
Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony [medieval dedication]
Church Location: Tontoft 1, 6430 Nordborg
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Sønderjylland, Syddanmark
Directions to Site: Located on Als, at the N end of the 405, in the municipality of Sønderborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Nordborg Pastorat; Sønderborg Provsti
Historical Region: Als Nørre hr., Sønderborg amt, Haderslev stift. Sønderjylland
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:
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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."
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