Gassum

Results: 23 records

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B01: human figure - head - floating head

Scene Description: a device also found on other Romanesque fonts [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

B02: animal - mammal - lion - gardant - bi-corporate

Scene Description: the bodies are skillfully rendered, but the shared head is rather sheepish

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

B03: animal - mammal - lion - passant - with prey - human - 2

Scene Description: one at each side of the human; they appear to be devouring the human's arms

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Døbefonten i Gassum kirke, kvinde mellem to løver, der har opslugt hendes arme."

Image Source: digital photograph in Søren Kaspersen's Jyske fonte med modstillede løver.[1] Et præliminært studie, 17.8.2016 klo 23.15 | Tieteelliset artikkelit | TAHITI 04/2016 [https://tahiti.journal.fi/article/view/85640/44590] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - gate

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - crucifix

Scene Description: in the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the font just west of the altar

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit - north side

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph August 23, 2010 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 16901GAS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Gassum Kirke

Church Location: Amtsvejen 8A, Gassum, 8981 Spentrup, Denmark

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Århus / Aarhus, Midtjylland

Directions to Site: Located on Amtsvejen, nr. Spentrup, 13 km NNW of Randers

Ecclesiastic Region: Århus Stift

Historical Region: Nørhald Herred, Randers Amt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the communion railing

Date: ca. 1150?

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Himmerland-Mariagertypen, Mariagergruppen-C [Mackeprang] / Hov family [Slomann]

Cognate Fonts: Hov, Skjellerup, Svenstrup, Vester Tørslev, etc.; more specifically the fonts at Øster Hornum and Stenild

Church Notes: present church ca.1150

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Mackeprang (1941) as a baptismal font of the Himmerland-Mariagertypen, Mariagergruppen-C, to with he fonts at Øster Hornum and Stenild. Described and illustrated in Slomann (1967). Noted and illustrated in Søren Kaspersen's Jyske fonte med modstillede løver.[1] Et præliminært studie, 17.8.2016 klo 23.15 | Tieteelliset artikkelit | TAHITI 04/2016 [https://tahiti.journal.fi/article/view/85640/44590] [accessed 21 November 2023] as a noteworthy font on which the armas of a large-breasted women are into the mouths of a pair of lions on the sides of her; Kaspersen (ibid) recalls a somewhar similar occurence on the fonts at Svenstrup and Kastbjerg, although the two swallowing beasts are dragons in these cases; Kaspersen (ibid.) further notes that this font somewhat reminds those in the so-called Aalborg-group, the bi-corporates replaced here by pairs of lions. On-site notes: baptismal font made of granite; it consists of a large roughly hemispherical basin raised on a small round-to-square base without ornament; the basin has a pair of lions that appear to devouring a human figure that stands between them; there is also a bi-corporal lion whose head is rather sheepish-looking, in contrast with the beautifully rendered bodies and floriated tails; between the rumps of two of the lions is one of the strange floating heads that appear on many of these Jutland granite fonts [NB: also on French and Spanish fonts of this period (Pyrenees, Castilla-Leon and Navarre)]. The basin well is bucket-shaped on the inside, unlined, and bears a central drain hole. There is no cover present, nor are there any traces of mounting hardware on the basin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.575367, 9.9966

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 34′ 31.32″ N, 9° 59′ 47.76″ E

UTM: 32V 561228 6270564

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*

Basin Depth: 34 cm

Basin Total Height: 55 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 25 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on site

REFERENCES

Slomann, Vilhelm, Bicorporates: Studies in Revivals and Migrations of Arts Motifs, Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1967