Thingvellir / Þingvellir
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view of church exterior - bell-cote
Scene Description: Source caption: "þíngmannakirkja. Image extracted from page 65 of Alþíngisstaður hinn forni við Öxará …, by GUðMUNDSSON, Sigurñur. Original held and digitised by the British Library HMNTS 10281.h.4."
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Image Source: digital image extracted from page 64 of Alþíngisstaður hinn forni við Öxará … (1878), by GUðMUNDSSON, Sigurñur. Original held and digitised by the British Library [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(9)_þíngmannakirkja.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2024]
view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "þíngmannakirkja. Image extracted from page 66 of Alþíngisstaður hinn forni við Öxará …, by GUðMUNDSSON, Sigurñur. Original held and digitised by the British Library HMNTS 10281.h.4."
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Image Source: digital image extracted from page 66 of Alþíngisstaður hinn forni við Öxará … (1878), by GUðMUNDSSON, Sigurñur. Original held and digitised by the British Library [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(9)_þíngmannakirkja.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2024]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche von Þingvellir"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christian Bickel fingalo, 2006
Image Source: edited detail of a digital phptpgraph 3 June 2006 by Christian Bickel fingalo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thingvellir_05.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2024]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Buildings and surroundings at Lögberg (Þingvellir) in Iceland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jakob Gleby, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2020 by Jakob Gleby [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buildings_and_surroundings_at_Lögberg_(Þingvellir)_in_Iceland.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2024] [accessed 1 February 2024]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Thingvellir, Iceland"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 14 July 2007 by TommyBee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChirchofThingvellir21.JPG] [accessed 1 February 2024]
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view of church interior - east end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Alteret i Þingvallakirkja, Þingvellir i Ísland"
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Image Source: digital photograph August 2012 by Orf3us [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Þingvallakirkja_(alteret).JPG] [accessed 1 February 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Koret i Þingvallakirkja, Þingvellir i Ísland" -- the wooden cylindrical object on the right may be the modern baptismal font
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Image Source: digital photograph August 2012 by Orf3us [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Þingvallakirkja_(koret),_Ísland_2012.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24591THI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Thingvallakirja / Þingvallakirkja
Church Patron Saints: [Jesus Christ?]
Church Location: [NB: present church address & coordinates] 7V4H+WGJ, þingvellir National Park Valhallarvegur, Thingvellir, Iceland -- Tel.: +354 482 2660
Country Name: Iceland
Location: Suðurlandi
Directions to Site: Þingvellir, now a national park, is located off road 36, in the municipality of Bláskógabyggð, about 40 km NE of Reykjavík.
Ecclesiastic Region: Árnesprófastsdæmi
Century and Period: 11th - 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: church ca. 1000; destroyed in 1118 storm; moved 1523; present wooden building 1859; re-built 1907
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the destroyed medieval church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 64.257342, -21.121184
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 64° 15' 26.4" N, 21° 7' 16.3" W