Haderslev No. 1

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - Christ naked

Scene Description: Christ appears to be totally naked, his feet in a graded moulding that presumably symbolises the waters of the Jordan; the Baptist's right hand appears to lean on Christ's head; no one in attendance

Image Source: digital photograph 12 December 2010 by Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker.dk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev(58)Døbefont.JPG] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Scene Description: to the right of the Baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph 12 December 2010 by Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker.dk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev(58)Døbefont.JPG] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Scene Description: in the arch to the left of the Crucifixion, two arches to the right of the Baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph 12 December 2010 by Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker.dk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev(58)Døbefont.JPG] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Scene Description: scene spread over three arches,missing two columns; Mary to the left, John to the right; Christ has nails through the hands and fet but there is no cross evident

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - wearing pilgrim garb

Scene Description: in the arch to the right of the Crucifixion -- it is possible James may have had a staff in his left hand originally, given the position of the hand

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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B06: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys

Scene Description: in the first arch to the left of the Last Judgement, second arch to the right of the Crucifixion -- the lily to the left of Christ in Judgement is visible here

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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B07: New Testament - Apocalypse - Last Judgment - Christ in Majesty - with lily on the left and sword on the right - feet on the orb

Scene Description: no rainbow in this representation; the scene is spread over two arches, without a middle column

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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B08: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Less - holding fuller's club

Scene Description: to the right of the Last Judgement -- tentative identification; his right hand holds other objects [perhaps the toy mill usually associated with this Apostle?]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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B09: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. John the Evangelist

Scene Description: in the second arch to the right of the Last Judgement -- tentative identification; no facial hair [could the objects held be a pen and book?]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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B10: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child - Virgin crowned - enthroned

Scene Description: the figure on the right, with his right hand towards Mary's head, the left hand holding an orb is probably either Christ or God the Father

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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B11: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Scene Description: in the arch to the right of the Coronation of the Virgin, two arches to the left of the Baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph 12 December 2010 by Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker.dk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev(58)Døbefont.JPG] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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B12: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Scene Description: in the arch to the left of the Baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph 12 December 2010 by Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker.dk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev(58)Døbefont.JPG] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - holding book

Scene Description: Not the usual representation of John the Evangelist; seen here on the left, it consists of a human figure with an eagle head, holding a book (?) in the left hand -- the inscription on the lower end of the basin, between the heads, identifies Matthew, the next Evangelist to the right.

Image Source: digital photograph 12 December 2010 by Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker.dk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev(58)Døbefont.JPG] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - holding book

Scene Description: not the usual representation of Matthew, the Evangelist; seen here on the left, it consists of a human figure holding an open book in the left hand; since the other three standing figures have as heads those of their synbols, this one must therefore be an angel's head -- the inscription on the lower end of the basin, between the heads, identifies Luke, the Apostle on the right

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - with cup

Scene Description: not the usual representation of Luke, the Evangelist; seen here on the right, it consists of a human figure with an ox head, holding a cup (?) in the left hand -- the inscription on the lower end of the basin identifies Luke -- notice the basin underbowl: was there a drain there?

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - with bag

Scene Description: not the usual representation of Mark, the Evangelist; seen here on the right, it consists of a human figure with an lion head, holding a bag or pouch with a bell (?) on it in the left hand -- the inscription on the lower end of the basin, between the heads, identifies Mark

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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angel - standing - holding processional cross

Scene Description: one on each of the capitals of the arcade; the processional cros is held diagonally down from the angel's left shoulder

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed and pinnacled arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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inscription

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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inscription

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Marienkirche (Domkirche) in Hardersleben, Zeichnung von Fritz Stoltenberg ca. 1895"

Image Source: Scan aus dem Buch: Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen in Wort und Bild von Hippolst Haas, Hermann Krumm u. Fritz Stoltenberg (1896) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marienkirche_Hardersleben_01.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2006 by Søren Møller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2010 by Hubertus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke1.JPG] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2009 by JEK [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HadDomkInterioer.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph 12 December 2010 by Hideko Bondesen, Nordenskirker.dk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev(58)Døbefont.JPG] [accessed 5 November 2015]

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view of font - south side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bronzefünte von 1485 im Dom zu Haderslev, Jütland, Dänemark, Ansicht der Südseite".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_S.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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view of font - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haderslev_Domkirke_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09389HAD

Church/Chapel: Haderslev domkirke

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Domkirkepladsen 2, 6100 Haderslev, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 74 52 36 33

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Sønderjylland, Syddanmark

Directions to Site: Located on road 47, on the N side of the Haderslev Indre Dam, in Jutland, about 60 km WSW of Odense

Ecclesiastic Region: Haderslev Stift

Historical Region: Haderslev hr., Haderslev amt, Haderslev stift

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, S side

Date: 1485

Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Peter Hansen [aka Hanssen]

Cognate Fonts: made related fonts at Flensborg and Aarhus dom

Church Notes: original stone church mid-12thC; destroyed [demolished?] mid-13thC, the granite of the old church used for the foundations of the new one; damaged in 1627 fire; re-built 1650; restored 1941-1951;

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In Bompus (1908: 35ff): medieval baptismal font of the late 15th century; the basin is supported by four human figures whose heads are the Evengelists' symbols. The baptismal font was cast in bronze by Peter Hansen, of Flensburg, in 1485; it consists of the characteristic bucket-shaped basin produced by workshops traditionally involved in the making of church bells; the upper side just below the rim has an inscription that gives the names of canons Detlev Wulf and Gegor Smit, as well as Peter Hansen's Flensborg bell foundry; the sides are decorated with an arcade of seventeen pointed arch-heads, twelve of which on columns with elaborate capitals and simple bases; the columns themselves are also decorated; the arches containing the most important scenes (Baptism of Christ, Last Judgement, Crucifixion and the Coronation of the Virgin in Heaven) are double, triple in the case of the Crucifixion, the central columns missing; the arch-heads are crocketed and the tops of the columns pinnacled and crocketed; the 'capitals' of the columns are actually full-figure angels holding processional crosses; each of the eight single arches contain a figure holding objects that ought to help in their identification as Apostles [we tentatively identified James the Greater, James the Less, Peter and John]; the basin is raised on four figures at 90-degree angles; the figures are human, wearing long robes and holding a book in the left hand; the heads, however, are those of the symbols of the Evangelists: one human, Matthew's angel; the others an ox' head, a lion's and an eagle's; the names of the Evangelists are spelled out in Latin on the lower end of the basin, in the correspondin area between the heads of the figures. There is no cover present; the inner basin is fitted with a metal support on which the small baptismal dish rests for the infant baptisms, as it is common in the northern churches. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original mid-12thC church here, but the is a granite font at the nearby Hertug Hans Hospitalskirke that is said to be Romanesque and have originally belonged to this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.249777, 9.487711

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 14′ 59.2″ N, 9° 29′ 15.76″ E

UTM: 32U 531004 6122695

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: 1. around the upper side of the basin, below the rim; 2. around the bottom side of the basin

Inscription Text: 1. [transcription not available -- it gives the names of canons Detlev Wulf and Gegor Smit, as well as Peter Hansen's Flensborg bell foundry] 2. "[...] santus / marcus santus - mat/teus - / santus lucas - santus / [...]"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bumpus, Thomas Francis, The Cathedrals and Churches of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, London: T.W. Laurie, 1908

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962