Borre / Borró

Image copyright © Svend Aage Madsen, 2011

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Borre kirke / Borre church in Horten, Norway "

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Svend Aage Madsen, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2011 by Svend Aage Madsen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middelalderkirken_på_Borre_i_Horten,_Borre_kirke,_med_den_flotte_steinmuren_i_forgrunnen.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Borre kirke, en romansk, hvitkalket middelalderkirke på Kirkebakken i Borre i Horten kommune i Vestfold og Telemark fylke."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfmann, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 8 July 2021 by Wolfmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BORRE_KIRKE_medieval_church_Kirkebakken_HORTEN_Norway_Kirkeg%C3%A5rd_gravlund_cemetery_church_yard_gravminner_gravsteiner_headstones_tombstones_etc_2021-07-08_IMG_8085.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Scene Description: Source caption: " Interiør i Borre kirke, en romansk middelalderkirke i Horten kommune i Vestfold og Telemark fylke: Alter med alterring og barokk altertavle (engelsk: altar piece) skåret av treskjærer Abel Schrøder d.y. 1665 og malt og forgylt i 1741 Tak i koret dekorert med tekster, motiver og rosemaling-lignende ornamenter «Dåpsengel» (baptismal angel); dåpsfatet holdes av en svevende engel som fires ned fra taket Votivskip, skipsmodell, «kirkeskip» Kiste (coffin) før en gravferdsseremoni Lysekroner (chandeliers) Søyler, paneler og annet med malt marmorering, etc."

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Image Source: digital photograph 8 July 2021 by Wolfmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BORRE_KIRKE_medieval_church_Horten_Norway_2021-07-08_Interior_Alterring_Altertavle_Abel_Schr%C3%B8der_1665_Lysekrone_chandeliers_Engel_angel_Rosemalt_tak_painted_ceiling_Kiste_coffin_Kirkeskip_etc_IMG_7978.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: " Interiør i Borre kirke, en romansk middelalderkirke i Horten kommune i Vestfold og Telemark fylke: Alter med alterring og barokk altertavle (engelsk: altar piece) skåret av treskjærer Abel Schrøder d.y. 1665 og malt og forgylt i 1741 Tak i koret dekorert med tekster, motiver og rosemaling-lignende ornamenter «Dåpsengel» (baptismal angel); dåpsfatet holdes av en svevende engel som fires ned fra taket Votivskip, skipsmodell, «kirkeskip» Kiste (coffin) før en gravferdsseremoni Prekestol (pulpit) i renessansestil fra circa 1600, med billedframstillinger av dydene Salmetavle (hymn board) Lysekroner (chandeliers) Kirkebenker, benekerader (wooden pews, church benches) Søyler, paneler og annet med malt marmorering Kopi av Borrekorset (The Borre Cross) fra slutten av 1200-tallet, etc." -- the cross on the south wall is a replica copy; the original is in the KHM, Oslo

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfmann, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 8 July 2021 by Wolfmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BORRE_KIRKE_medieval_church_Horten_Norway_2021-07-08_Interior_Altertavle_Abel_Schr%C3%B8der_1665_Lysekrone_chandeliers_Prekestol_pulpit_c_1600_Borrekorset_Borre_Cross_Benkerader_pews_Kiste_coffin_etc_IMG_7972.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption" Interiør i Borre kirke, en romansk middelalderkirke i Horten kommune i Vestfold og Telemark fylke: Kirkebenker, benkerader (wooden pews, church benches) Lysekroner (chandeliers) Søyler, paneler og annet med malt marmorering Kirkeorgel (organ) på galleriet over inngangen, etc."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfmann, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 8 July 2021 by Wolfmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BORRE_KIRKE_medieval_church_Horten_Norway_2021-07-08_Interior_Lysekrone_chandeliers_Malte_s%C3%B8yler_Painted_coloumns_Benkerader_pews_Orgel_organ_etc_IMG_7987.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of cross - base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Borre, Cross. Detalj av kors 'Kristus i dødsriket'. Kors, kristusfiguren mangler. Korset er dekket av vinranker. Korsarmene er dekorert med treflikede medaljonger. De tre øverste inneholder utskjærte symbolder for evangelistene, det nederste viser Kristus i limbus. Korset har ingen naglehull etter en festet kristusfigur."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eirik Irgens Johnsen / Kulturhistorisk museum, UiO, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph 8 December 2014 by Eirik Irgens Johnsen / Kulturhistorisk museum, UiO [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cf24959_A_C6130_Borre_Cross_Borrekorset_Medieval_Sculpture_Collection,_Museum_of_Cultural_History,_Oslo,_Norway-_Photo_Eirik_Irgens_Johnsen,_Kulturhistorisk_museum,_UiO_CC_BY-SA_4.0.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of cross in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "«Borrekorset» («Det hellige korset i Borre») fra slutten av 1200-tallet. Opprinnelig fra Borre kirke, en middelalderkirke fra 1100-tallet utenfor Horten i Vestfold. Kors av furu, med utskjæringer. krusifiks der trolig kristusfiguren mangler, selv om det ikke er naglehull etter en festet figur. Korset er dekket av vinranker, Korsarmene er dekorert med treflikede medaljonger. De tre øverste viser symboler for evangelistene (ørn for Johannes, bevinget okse for Johannes og bevinget løve for Markus), det nederste viser Kristus i limbus. Foto tatt 26. februar 2020 i Middelaldersalen i Kulturhistorisk museum i Oslo."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfmann, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 16 February 2020 by Wolfmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_13c._3x2_m_wooden_Borre_church_cross_Borrekorset_Kristusfigur_mangler_Middelaldersalen_UiO_Kulturhistorisk_Museum_of_Cultural_History_Oslo_Norway_2020-02-26_4540.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24332BOR
Museum and Inventory Number: Universitetets Oldsaksamling, Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo
Church/Chapel: Borre kirke / kyrkje
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for the parish church of Borre] Kirkebakken 4, 3184 Borre, Norway
Country Name: Norway
Location: Vestfold
Directions to Site: Located off road 325, just S of highway 19, in the municipality and 3 km S of Horten, 12-13 km N of Tønsberg
Ecclesiastic Region: Tungsberg Bispedømme
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1200-1250?
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mona Bramer Solhaug for sharing her baptismal font information with BSI
Listed and illustrated in Solhaug (2001) as fragments of a medieval Gotland font of ca. 1200-1250 imported into Norway; the fragments were discovered by the preiest E. Diesen built into the cemetery wall in 1891; further fragments were also rescued in the same area in 1934; the larger fragment shows a round base of the typical truncated-cone shape with one head still attached to it, as well as part of the original roll moulding that decorated its top; three other human heads are also noted and illustrated in Solhaug (ibid.), two of them with beards and two wearing headdress. Mentioned in Gravgaver [https://www.gravgaver.no/gotland-dopefonter.htm] [accessed 2 October 2022] as fragments of one of twelve medieval fonts imported from Gotland into Norway: "Borre (av kummen er kun fragmenter bevart), Eidanger (kun fot), Fon (nederste del av kummen), Hidra (skaft og fot), Holmedal (skaft og fot), Hvaler, Nøtterøy (kun underdel), Ramnes (skaft og fot, fire hoder skyter ut fra vulsten), Sannidal, Sæbø, Tanum, Våle." The entry for this church in Norske Kirker [https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/vestfold/borre-kirke/] [accessed 2 October 2022] informs of the medieval font fragments, a a later wooden font, painted and gilded, was reported in the sacristy in the 1890s, but was later moved to the Norsk folkemuseum, in which catalogue appears in 1901; also noted in Norske Kirker is a hanging 'dåpsengelen' [baptismal angel] and of later modern font; the baptismal angel appears to have predominated and is still hanging in the chancel now [2022].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.38235, 10.45988
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 22′ 56.46″ N, 10° 27′ 35.57″ E
UTM: 32V 582937 6583538

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: [missing]

REFERENCES

Solhaug, Mona Bramer, Middelalderens døpefonter i Norge, Oslo: Unipub forlag -- Det historisk filosofiske fakultetet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001