Veggerby
Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
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animal - mammal - lion - 2
Scene Description: on the left is the rump of one of the two lions that are set to the sides of the human head; notice the artistic tuft of the tail end; on the far right the head of the third lion is discernible
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/dobefont/galleri/3343] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: passant to the right; canine head; long and thick tongue hanging out
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/dobefont/galleri/3343] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left; canine head; long and thick tongue hanging out
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/dobefont/galleri/3343] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant - 2
Scene Description: the rumps of the two lions that are set to the sides of the human head; notice the artistic tuft of the tail end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/dobefont/galleri/3343] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant
Scene Description: the head and front part of the third lion; the head is not feline and the face is definitely humanised with a mean sort of mien; notice the elaborate mane with the curled ends
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/dobefont/galleri/3343] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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human figure - male - head - long hair - with moustache
Scene Description: the moustache is, though thin, apparent; what is not clear is the detail right below his chin; is it a wispy beard? clothing?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/dobefont/galleri/3343] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/historie/] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/skib/#_] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east - chancel arch and chancel
![with the old font in the foreground, left [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160808044_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the old font in the foreground, left [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/skib/#_] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/skib/#_] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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view of font - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aalborg Stift, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Niels Clemmesen, in the Aalborg Stift web site [http://aalborgstift.dk/kirker/rebild/veggerby-kirke/dobefont/galleri/3343] [accessed 8 August 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20698BEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Church Location: Kirketerpvej 83, Veggerby, Nibe, Aalborg 9240, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 98 38 71 22
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Nordjylland, Syddanmark
Directions to Site: Located off road 519, in the municipality of Rebild, S of Nibe, 24 km SE of Aalborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Ålborg Stift
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the NE of the nave [not its original position]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Himmerland-Mariagertypen, related [Mackeprang]
Cognate Fonts: fonts at Siem, Torup, Ullits
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of granite listed in Mackeprang (1941) as one of a small group related to the Himmerland-Mariagertypen, made up of those at Siem, Torup, Ullits and Viggerby. The font consists of a hemispherical basin, a short round stem and a squat square lower base; there are three lions on the sides of the basin, two rendered in profile, passant, with elaborate manes and twisting tails that end in floral tufts; the rather canine heads have long arm-thick tongues the lions face each other across a human face in their middle, on the south side of the basin; it is part of a long-haired head that has a moustache and appears to have a forked beard or some decoration (?) below, but not a body; the third lion is rendered also in a passant-gardant pose, its head somewhat humanised with sharp propped-up ears; the carving is low-relief, kept very close to the overall plane; the square lower base has a thick moulding all around. No cover present. The baptismal dish ['fadet'] is noted in this same source as being late-16th century, from southern Germany.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941