Pedersker / Peders

INFORMATION

FontID: 09015PED
Church/Chapel: Sankt Peders Kirke
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Søndre Landevej 212, 3720 Aakirkeby, Denmark
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Hovedstaden, Sjælland
Directions to Site: Located S of county road 38, in the S of the island, 5-6 km SE of Åkirkeby, about 20 km ESE of Rønne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Østermarie and Rønne
Church Notes: 11thC(?) church; much modified
Described in Heales (1889: 39) as a baptismal font of approximately the same period and style as those at Rønne and Østermarie [cf. Index entries under these names], also on the island of Bornholm. The period would be "Decorated" [i.e., Gothic] and the dating in the late 13th to early 15th century. The shape of the font is stated in Heales (ibid.) as "quite of the hock-glass form".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.025079, 14.976527
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 1′ 30.28″ N, 14° 58′ 35.5″ E
UTM: 33U 498499 6097582

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Heales, Alfred, The Ecclesiology of Gotland, Other than Wisby ; and the Churches of Bornholm, London: Printed in Roworth & Co., Newton Street, High Holborn, 1889