Valloby / Valløby
Results: 2 records
B01: symbol - tree
B02: animal - mammal - lion
Scene Description: "heraldic lions" (a/p Berggren)
INFORMATION
FontID: 09159VAL
Church/Chapel: Valløby kirke
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Roskilde, Syddanmark
Directions to Site: Located 10 SE of Køge, about 40-45 km SW of Copenhagen
Historical Region: Sjælland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Group 7) [Berggren]
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Roholte and Stralsund
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Berggren (2002: 171 fn38) as a baptismal font of the Paradise type (group 7 or "lily-tree" fonts), one of three -with the fonts at Roholte and Stralsund [cf. corresponding Index entries]- "made with the same template" of ornamental "trees and heraldic lions".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (from Gotland)
REFERENCES
Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002