Gosmer

Results: 5 records

animal - mammal - lion

design element - motifs - foliage

view of church exterior - southeast portal - tympanum

Scene Description: the door ['priest's door'] opens into the south side of the chancel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2007 by Sommer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gosmer_Kirke_03.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2017]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bococo, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Bococo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:09-06-25-o1-Gosmer_(Odder).JPG] [accessed 30 November 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bococo, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Bococo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:09-06-25-o4-Gosmer_(Odder).JPG] [accessed 30 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 21551GOS
Church/Chapel: Gosmer Kirke [aka Hads Herreds domkirke]
Church Location: Troldbjergvej 10, Gosmer, 8300 Odder, DK -- Tel.: +45 86 55 60 50
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Østjylland, Syddanmark
Directions to Site: Located off (E) 451 road, in the municipality of Odder, and 6 km SW of that town, 30 km S of Aarhus
Ecclesiastic Region: Århus Stift
Historical Region: Hads herred, Århus Amt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Horsenstypen
Cognate Fonts: others in this group (Odder, Torrild, Ut, etc.
Church Notes: present building ca. 1200; probably dedicated to St. Theobaldus; renovated 1866
Listed and illustrated in Danmarks Kirker [http://docplayer.dk/11942642-Gosmer-kirke-hads-herred-fig-1-kirken-set-fra-nordvest-kdefl-fot-1986-the-church-seen-from-north-west.html] [accessed 30 November 2017]: baptismal font of the Romanesque period, of the Horsenstype group; chalice-shaped, its surfaces decorated with lions and foliage in a low relief.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.930139, 10.192222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 55′ 48.5″ N, 10° 11′ 32″ E
UTM: 32U 574488 6198946

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round