Skjellerup

Results: 25 records

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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - bi-corporate

Scene Description: on the south side: one of two

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - bi-corporate

Scene Description: northeast side: the second of two

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

human figure - male - standing - frontal - with moustache - holding lion's tail

Scene Description: on the west side of the font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

information

Image Source: field notes taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 24 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the west side: the crossed tails of the lions, with the paws below

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: west side: the arms of the man are almost hidden by the rumps of the lions

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: west side: the hind claws of the lions appear to be holding the man's legs

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: west side: the man's head

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church exterior - north porch - detail

Scene Description: one of two tomb stones kept inside the north porch or 'våbenhus'

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church exterior - north porch - detail

Scene Description: one of two tomb stones kept inside the north porch or 'våbenhus'

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church exterior - north porch - tympanum

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church interior - bench-end

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: dated 1750

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church interior - painting

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church interior - pulpit

Scene Description: dated 1671 at the bottom of the west panel

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of church interior - window

Scene Description: on the north wall of the nave

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of font - northeast side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of font - upper view

Scene Description: notice the pebbles supporting the brass baptismal insert

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of font - west side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of font - west side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

view of font in context

Scene Description: the northeast corner of the nave

Image Source: BSI - Photographed August 24, 2010

INFORMATION

FontID: 16909SKJ

Church/Chapel: Skjellerup Kirke

Church Location: Mariagervej 82A, Skjellerup, 9500 Hobro, Denmark

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Århus / Aarhus, Midtjylland

Directions to Site: Located on Mariagervej/Road 555, 5 km ESE of Hobro

Ecclesiastic Region: Århus Stift

Historical Region: Onsild Herred, Randers Amt, Østjylland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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

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

Cognate Fonts: Gassum, Hov, Svenstrup, Vester Tørslev, etc.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Slomann (1967). On-site notes: baptismal font made of granite, consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round base. This font is somewhat smaller in size than its sister fonts at nearby Gassum, Svenstrup, Vester Tørslev, etc., and rates only one human figure between the rumps of bi-corporeal lions; the figure here is male, wearing a droopy moustache, but no beard; unlike the figures on the other fonts of this group, the arms of the man are almost hidden behind the rumps of the lions; they do, nonetheless hold the tips of the tails; the hanging back paws of the lions appear to hold his legs, but the carving on coarse granite does not lend itself to subtle details. The font is now located at the east end of the nave, on the north corner, just west of the chancel arch. The inner basin well is now filled with pebbles which serve as support for the brass baptismal insert.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 37' 37.26" N, 9° 51' 53.01" E

UTM: 32V 552760 6276531

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: [the basin interior is now filled with pebbles]

Rim Thickness: 8 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm

Basin Depth: [filled with pebbles]

Basin Total Height: 50 cm

Height of Base: 28 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on site

REFERENCES

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