Helsingor No. 1 / Helsingør / Elsinor

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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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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: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 16991HEL

Church/Chapel: Helsingør Domkirke (aka Sankt Olai Kirke)

Church Patron Saints: St. Olaf [aka Olaf II Haraldsson, Óláfr Haraldsson, Olav, Olav Haraldsson, Olave, Olof]

Church Location: Sct Anna Gade 12, 3000 Helsingør, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 49 21 04 43, [14]

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Frederiksborg, Sjælland

Directions to Site: Located at the NE tip of Zealand, just 4 km across the Øresund from Sweden

Ecclesiastic Region: Helsingør stift

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery

Date: 1579

Century and Period: 16th century(late),

Church Notes: a parish church in Helsingor documented by 1295

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.035722, 12.614167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 2′ 8.6″ N, 12° 36′ 51″ E

UTM: 33V 351354 6212623

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 Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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"

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1579

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: yes; crane (no longer operational)

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]