Kallundborg Kirke

Fig. 26. Vestre Halvsøjlebase. — Base of western half=column. foroven, medens alle Kapitælerne var borthuggede ved Res staureringen i 1870 og erstattede med store cementpudsede Kapitæler af moderne gule Sten. Dog var Rundstaven under Kapitælet bevaret paa den nordre Søjle ved Vestbuen, men afhugget paa alle de øvrige Søjler. Kapitælets Sidelinje var be« varet i 5 Skifters Højde ved nordre Søjle ved Østbuen, og af selve Kapitælet var det nederste Skifte bevaret paa vestre Søj« le ved Nordbuen, hvor det dannede en Halvcirkel svarende til Halvsøjlens Skaft. At Kapitælerne imidlertid har haft den i den danske, romanske Teglstensarkitektur almindelige Form med mere eller mindre trapezformede Sider og skraat affasede Hjørner fremgaar dels af ældre Opmaalingstegninger fra Ti« den før 1870, dels af det førnævnte Præsteepitafium, hvor Ka« pitælerne foroven er firkantede og afsluttes med en Rundstav. Det nederste Kapitælskiftes runde Form viser, at de trapezfor« mede Sider forneden er gaaet blødere over i de affasede Hjør« ner, end det senere blev almindeligt, hvilket muligvis er en lidt ældre Form af disse primitive Murstenskapitæler, hvis Lighed med Midtsøjlernes Granitkapitæler tyder paa, at de har udvik« let sig af det i den ældre Middelalder benyttede degenererede »korintiske« Kapitæl. — Afhuggede Hulkehlprofiler paa Pila« stre og False viste endvidere, at Kapitælerne over Rundstaven maa antages at have haft en tilsvarende fremspringende Hul« kehl, hvis de skulde naa den rette Højde som Vederlag for Gjordbuerne. Dette Vederlag ligger forøvrigt i lidt forskellig Højde paa de forskellige Korsarmsbuer. Hulkehlprofilet ven« der kun ind mod Buen og er ikke forkrøbbet om Hjørnerne i Falsene; det mangler helt paa de Halvstensfalse, som fortsæt« ter sig i Hvælvingsgraterne. Rundstavene paa Halvsøjlerne var oprindelig baade ved Kapitæl og Base dannet af store kvartcirkel«formede Formsten. Korsarmenes Buer ind mod Midtpartiet bæres, som foran be« rørt, af fremspringende Pilastre med Sokkelprofiler og Veder« lagsprofil i Tilslutning til Halvsøjlerne og disses Pilastre. Pila« strene i vestre og østre Korsarm er prydede med Halvsøjler, liggende forsænkede i Pilasterfladen, een Halvsøjle med run« det Base i Vestbuens Pilastre og to tætstillede uden Baser i Østbuens (Pl. V, Fig. 26 og 27). Halvsøjlerne løber lige op un« der Vederlagets Hulkehl uden nogen Art af Kapitæler 24. Kors« armsbuerne, der overalt er de oprindelige for de nederste Par« tiers Vedkommende, har oprindelig staaet pudsede og hvid« the plinth of a column of the same kind as the plinths in Sorø Church (Fig. 29). When the column was placed on the plinths of the east columns at the corners, the solution of the bond of the plinths was found, for every single brick in both plinths could now be fitted exactly into the impression of the bricks that had been partially or entirely hewn away. Even though the plinth is entirely reconstructed, there is every probability that its present form corresponds to the original. Although in some places the shafts of the semi«columns were hewn away and destroyed, the upper portions were for the most part preserved. All the capitals were cut away under the restoration in 1870 and replaced by large plastered capi« tals of modern yellow bricks. However the astragal below the capital of the north column by the west arch was preserved, though that of all the other columns had perished. The side line of the capital on the north column by the east arch was preserved to a height of 5 courses, and of the capital itself, the lowest course was preserved on the west column by the north arch where it formed a semi«circle corresponding to the shaft of the semiscolumn. That the capital possessed the form quite common to the Danish Romanesque brick architecture, witli more or less trapezate sides and obliquely bevelled corners, is seen partly from the old plans prior to 1870, partly from the memorial tablet to the priest to which reference has already been made, and in which the capitals are square above and end in an astragal. The round form of the lowest course of the capital shows that the trapezate sides passed less sharply over to the corners than was the custom later, perhaps a slightly older form of these primitive brick capitals whose resemblance to the granite capitals of the central columns would indicate that they have developed from the degene« rated »Corinthian« capitals so much used in the early Middle Ages.—Traces of flutings on the plasters and grooves showed, moreover, that above the astragal the capitals must have had a corresponding fluting if they were to reacli the height ne« cessary to serve as abutment for transverse arches. This abut« ment lies at a different height on the different arches of the transepts. The profile of the flutings turns only toward the arches and is not hidden around the corners in the groves. On the half«brick groove which continues into the arrises of the vaultings it is lacking. The astragals of the semi«columns were originally both at the capital and the base formed from large quartercircle moulded briciks. The arches of the transepts toward the nave are borne, as indicated earlier, by projecting pilasters, with the profiles of the socle and the profile of the abutment adhering to the semi« columns and their pilasters. The pilasters in the west and east transepts are decorated with semi«columns sunk in the surface of the pilaster, one semiscolumn with rounded base in the pilasters of the west arch and two placed close together without bases in the east arch (Pl. V, Fig. 26 og 27) 24. The semi«columns rise straight up to the fluting of the abutment without any capital whatever. The lower sections of the arches of the transepts, which are everywhere original, were originally plastered and white«washed on the underneath side to within a half«brick from the edge. Toward the nave the arch has a half«brick groove as a continuation of the single 22