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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Last Supper
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2011 by Helga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Botne_kirke_døpefont.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2017]
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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
Scene Description: seen here in the left panel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2011 by Helga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Botne_kirke_døpefont.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2017]
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New Testament - scene
Scene Description: unidentified / not accessible
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helga, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2011 by Helga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Botne_kirke_døpefont.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2017]
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inscription
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2011 by Helga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Botne_kirke_døpefont.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2017]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trond Strandsberg, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2007 by Trond Strandsberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Botne_kirke_TRS.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital image of a Illustrasjon hentet fra boken "Holmestrand og omegn" av Graarud, G. og utgitt av Forlaget NorgeKristiania : Forlaget Norge, 1906-1929 (Kristiania, [1907]) [https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/index.php/Fil:No-nb_digibok_2008040300053_0023_1.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2017]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helga, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2011 by Helga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Botne_kirke_døpefont.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20823BOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Botne Kirke
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Kirkeveien 19, Botne, Holmestrand, Norway
Country Name: Norway
Location: Vestfold
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Holmestrand, about 4 km from it
Ecclesiastic Region: Tunsberg Bispedømme
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1648
Century and Period: 17th century(mid)
Church Notes: original stone church ca. 1200; expanded 1865; restored 1947
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font is made of wood and dated 1648, a gift from Hans Simensøn, of Holmestrand; it consists of an octagonal basin with a pronounced upper rim, and a painted inscription in the scotia below; the sides are framed panels depicting Biblical scenes, including one of the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan; the lower end of the basin is trimmed in a pattern; the short base is also octagonal, with eight vertical ribs, on a flat square lower base. The whole basin is painted and gilded, the base in a dark brown even colour. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.481064, 10.277324
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 28′ 51.83″ N, 10° 16′ 38.36″ E
UTM: 32V 572356 6594316
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Norwegian
Inscription Notes: painted
Inscription Location: around the scotia below the upper rim
Inscription Text: [full text not available -- records the gift of this font in 1648 by Hans Simensøn, a shopkeeper of Holmestrand]
Inscription Source: Images Area