Helsingor No. 1 / Helsingør / Elsinor
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Scene Description: one of the three fonts in this chapel
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Scene Description: one of the three fonts in this chapel
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Scene Description: not clear to us whether it was used with the wooden font/stoup or not
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Scene Description: general view of the baptistery with the metal font in it
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant - 4
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16991HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2002-08-03
Font Date: 1579
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late)
Church / Chapel Name: Helsingør Domkirke (aka Sankt Olai Kirke)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Olaf [aka Olaf II Haraldsson, Óláfr Haraldsson, Olav, Olav Haraldsson, Olave, Olof]
Church Notes: a parish church in Helsingor documented by 1295
Church Address: Sct Anna Gade 12, 3000 Helsingør, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 49 21 04 43, [14]
Site Location: Frederiksborg, Sjælland, Denmark, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the NE tip of Zealand, just 4 km across the Øresund from Sweden
Ecclesiastic Region: Helsingør stift
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original late-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font here made of brass and dating from 1579 is described and illustrated in Denmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Frederiksborg_0039-0289.pdf] [accessed 17 November 2016] as having replaced an earlier font here ["den gamle, os ukendte, døbefont afløstes af den nuværende, af messing."]; the present font in the Baroque baptistery is described as a font donated to the church in 1579 by writer and politician Frantz Lauritzen, of Kronenborg, and his wife; the font consists of a round tapering basin raised on a round pedestal decorated with multiple mouldings, and a splaying lower base raised on four small couchant lions. DK (ibid.) records an inscription on the sides of the basin: "Anno Christi 1579 lod Frantz Lavritzen oc hans kiere hustru Bente Pofvels daater bekaaste denne daabfunt, oc giffvet hannem til S. Olai kircke udi Helsingør. Soli deo gloria", followed by a charged shield; on the base is another inscription: "Vecten er XII hondrit pond". The font cover is domed in shape decorated with stylised floral motifs; it hangs from a hoist that is no longer operational; it bears an inscription, also recorded in DK (ibid.): "Frantz Lavritzen 1579 sit nomen domini benedictum" with Christ's monogram inserted mid-phrase. One other font is present in this cathedral church: an extremely ornate object made of wood, of the type which is used in combination with a removable nasin or baptismal dish; the sides of the 'basin' are decorated with large cherub heads facing out; local information dated the font 1929; there is baptismal dish in the treasure museum of the cathedral which may have been used with this wooden font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 351354 6212623
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.035722, 12.614167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 2′ 8.6″ N, 12° 36′ 51″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, brass
Font Shape: round, mounted -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 129 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Danmarks Kirker [cf. FontNotes]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Danish and Latin
Inscription Text: 1. (basin) "Anno Christi 1579 lod Frantz Lavritzen oc hans kiere hustru Bente Pofvels daater bekaaste denne daabfunt, oc giffvet hannem til S. Olai kircke udi Helsingør. Soli deo gloria"
2. (base) "Vecten er XII hondrit pond"
3. (cover) "Frantz Lavritzen 1579 sit nomen domini benedictum"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1579
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: yes; crane (no longer operational)
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]