Vistoft

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vistoft Kirke in the village of Vistoft at the peninsula Mols - nearby Knebel."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2017 by Peter Grosen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vistoft_Kirke_-_first_picture.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the font is partially visible in the chancel, left [north] side

Image Source: digital photograph 2003/2007 by Grethe Bachmann, in Church and Manor in Denmark [http://thyrashm.blogspot.com/2009/10/vistoft-church-mols-east-jutland.html] [accessed 20 March 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16903VIS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Vistoft Kirke

Church Location: Vistoft kirke, Søndre Molsvej 25, 8420 Knebel, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 86 35 21 44

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Midtjylland, Jylland

Directions to Site: Located N of Begtrup, SE of Knebel, in the municipality of Syddjurs, 20 km W across the bay from Ebeltoft. The church is located a few hundred meters S of Vistoft itself

Ecclesiastic Region: Århus Stift

Historical Region: formerly Mols herred, Randers Amt, Østjylland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: mid-12thC(?) church; expanded and modified 16thC; renovated 1774;

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font made of granite with a round plain basin.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining