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B01: design element - motifs - vine
CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
LB01: design element - motifs - foliage
R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vor Frue Sogn, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish website [http://vorfruesogn.folkekirken.dk/index.php?id=13609] [accessed 10 April 2010]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [National Museum?], 2010
Image Source: digital scan by BSI of a B&W photograph at the National Museum (?) archives [part of a test to digitise their collection]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16334KAL
Church/Chapel: Vor Frue kirke
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Sjælland, Sjælland
Directions to Site: Located on Adelgade 19
Historical Region: Holbæk amt, Sjælland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1170?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: Cruciform five-tower church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted and illustrated in the Parish website [http://vorfruesogn.folkekirken.dk/index.php?id=18086] [accessed 10 April 2010]: "The church is situated on a mound whose low western spur was fortified by the powerful nobleman Esbern Snare c. 1170 against attacks by Wendic pirates [...] The granite font, carved by a stone mason who worked for other members of the Esbern Snare family, dates from the time the church was built." The font consists of a hemispherical basin decorated with a rope moulding at the upper rim, and an ondulating vine with palmette-like designs and dots; the round-to-square pedestal base has a rope moulding at the upper end, and foliage motifs on the sides. The glass (?) cover is modern.