Ribe No. 2 / Ripen

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Scene Description: on the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Katarinae_ribe/katarinex33.jpg] [accessed 7 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - west end

Scene Description: The church was historically towerless until the restoration of 1918.

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2015 by Szilas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Catherine_church_in_Ribe_2015-07-27.jpg] [accessed 7 November 2015]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the Agnus Dei carved on the basin underbowl

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2010 by Västgöten

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20108RIB
Church/Chapel: Ribe Kloster / Sankt Katarinæ Kirke
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Siena
Church Location: Sct Catharinæ Pl. 4, 6760 Ribe, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 75 42 05 34
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Sønderjylland, Syddanmark
Directions to Site: Located off the highways 11 and 24 crossroads, 25-30 km SE of Esbjerg, in SW Jutland
Ecclesiastic Region: Ribe Stift
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque
Church Notes: Romanesque Dominican priory founded 1228; reconstructed and expanded 14thC; after the Dissolution became hospital, lunatoc asylum, appartments for the poor; restored 1918
Baptismal font made of granite, the roughly hemispherical basin of reddish granite, the round to square base greyish; the basin has a double falt moulding [torus-scotia-torus] at the upper end, with the names of the four Ecangelists inscribed in the upper moulding; there are symbols carved on the underbowl, on of them an Agnus Dei; the base has a roll moulding atop, with boraching that makes it sqaure below. The font appears modern. No cover present. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 13th-century priory church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.327222, 8.765
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 19′ 38″ N, 8° 45′ 54″ E
UTM: 32U 485090 6131231