Andebu / Andabu / Andabú / Andebo
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trond Strandsberg, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2007 by Trond Strandsberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andebu_kirke_TRS.jpg] [accessed 13 November 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: with the baptismal dish on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stig Anfinsen, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken by Stig Anfinsen [http://andebu.info/tema/bygdebok/andebu_hovedkirke.htm] [accessed 13 November 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 20796AND
Church/Chapel: Andebo Kirkje [Andebu Sta. Maria og St. Nicolai (hovedkirke) / Andabùs Kirkja]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Håskenveien, 3158 Andebu, Norway
Country Name: Norway
Location: Østlandet, Østlandet
Directions to Site: Located off road 305, WNW of Tønsberg, on the W side of Oslofjord, SW of Oslo
Historical Region: Jarlsberg og Larvik Amt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Church Notes: original church ca. 1100; first documented 1314; restored 1686;
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Reported as a soapstone font in the Gothic style in the munipality web site [www.andebu.kommune.no/Om-Andebu/Kirken-2/] [accessed 13 November 2016]. Described and illustrated in [http://andebu.info/tema/bygdebok/andebu_hovedkirke.htm] [accessed 13 November 2016]. Chalice-shaped baptismal font consisting a a basin of quatrefoild shape with veryical sides decorated with pairs of trefoiled windows, one (?) of which has a six-petal flower in a circle in the spandrel; the angled sides of the quatrefoil have vertical piping or buttresses in them; on a quatrefoiled pedestal base with a large cnrtre ring mouldings and a splaying base below; short pentagonal (!) plinth. No font cover present but the font has a metal baptismal dish on it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
59.308873,
10.177041
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
59° 18′ 31.94″ N,
10° 10′ 37.35″ E
UTM: 32V 567015 6575038
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, soapstone
Font Shape: quatre-foiled (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled