Voer
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B01: design element - motifs - medallion
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BS01: design element - motifs - floral or foliage
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - passant-regardant
Scene Description: at least one, inscribed in a semi-circle on the side of the lower base
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LBH01: human figure - head - 4
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font is partially visible near the chancel, behind the bank of pews on the left (north) side
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view of font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16904VOE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Voer Kirke
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Midtjylland, Jylland
Directions to Site: Located 12 km NE of Randers
Historical Region: formerly Voer Sogn, Rougsø herred, Randers amt, Østjylland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, N side, by the left side of the chancel arch
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Thyra's 'Church and manor in Denmark' [http://thyrashm.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html] [accessed 26 September 2010]: "Romanesque font with lion figures ; two baptismal bowls 1) south German from the end of the 1500s, 2) a larger bowl with engraved ornaments and inscription:" C I F. A I D. 1720"." [NB: the 'bowls' are the metal inserts used on top of the font for baptism]. Hemispherical basin decorated with four (?) medallion-like roundels with inscribed motifs, motifs also in the spandrels; roll moulding at the upper rim; the base is round to square, with a roll moulding at the neck, human heads at the spandrels/angles, and semi-circles with inscribed lions in them. [to be completed]. The font is now located at the east end of the nave, by the left (north) side of the chancel arch, not its original position.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round