Tanum in Randers / Tånum
Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2010
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tånum Kirke, Randers Kommune, døbefont"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 17 February 2010 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taanum28Doebefont.JPG] [accessed 16 December 2024]
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "In Tånum church porch's eastwall is there a relief ashlar with head / I Tånum Kirkes våbenhus' østmur ses en reliefkvader med hoved"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Villy Fink Isaksen, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 October 2014 by Villy Fink Isaksen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tånum_Kirkes_våbenhus'_østmur_reliefkvader_med_hoved.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2024]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: 'Tånum kirke, Randers, fra nordvest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bococo, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 12 April 2006 by Bococo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tånum_kirke_(Randers).JPG] [accessed 16 December 2024]
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - Adoration of Magi - Flight to Egypt - similarities with Semi-Byzantios Workshop
Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi and Flight to Egypt
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2023 by BSI
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2023 by BSI
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2023 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tånum Kirke, Randers Kommune, kirkerummet set mod øst"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 17 February 2010 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taanum18Kirkerummet.JPG] [accessed 16 December 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25762TAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2023-05-06
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century (?) [basin only?], Romanesque [basin only?]
Church / Chapel Name: Tånum Kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave
Church Notes: church ca. 1150; south side portal opening to chancel (now blocked): tympanum with Adoration of the Magi and Flight to Egypt; church underwent a major renovation in 1950s
Church Address: Tånum Bygade 39, Tånum, 8920 Randers, Denmark
Site Location: Midtjylland, Jylland, Denmark, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 503, W of the E45, 6-7 km E of Randers
Ecclesiastic Region: Århus Stift
Historical Region: Sønderlyng Herred, Viborg Amt
Additional Comments: font could be either re-tooled or otherwise altered version of a medieval one -- church closed; no entry on our visit 6 May 2023
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of granite consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round pedestal stem and a square lower base; the basin, which has a single moulding at the upper rim and is otherwise plain, appears to have been re-tooled; the two elements of the base could be a modern replacement. [NB: the font is not listed in Mackeprang (1941) which may mean that it is not medieval]. Exterior tympanum on church depicts Adoration of Magi and Flight to Egypt - compositions similar to those used by Semi-Byzantios workshop on Gotland (see H. Sonne de Torrens, Crusader Rhetoric, p. 221).
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 556743 6257742
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.46075, 9.92082
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 27′ 38.7″ N, 9° 55′ 14.95″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Sonne de Torrens, Harriet M., Crusader Rhetoric and the Infancy Cycles on Medieval Baptismal Fonts in the Baltic Region, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2024, p. 221