Kallundborg Kirke

^.1±*‘ -.^^»i^^ Fig. 28. Døbefonten. — Baptismal font. Kummen er hugget af een Sten, som det er almindeligt, og har langs den øvre Kant en kraftig Tovsnoning. Paa Siden er i Relief et Palmetmotiv af lombardisk Oprindelse 2". Foden er dannet som et omvendt Trapezkapitæl, der i Form ganske svarer til de fire Granitkapitæler paa Søjlerne i Skibet. Vub sten mellem Kumme og Fod bestaar af en Snoning af Hulkehl- baand, og paa Fodens trapezformede Sider er et Palmetmotiv i Slægt med Kummens. Døbefonten staar nu i Koret. — Nedenstaaende lille romanske Krucifixdigur af Bronce fins des nu paa Alteret. -^- C/. These have round^arched doorways with half=brick scheme arches and flat courses toward the roof of the nave. Toward the interior of the tower the doors have oblique bevels on the sides and arch, but no holes for bars and no traces of hinges. The bevehangle of the arch is plastered until within about 12 cm from the edge of the arch, showing that the walls then, in contrast to now, were unplastered. Under the plaster the masonry shows the original red paint on the bricks with the courses outlined in white both inside the towers and toward the loft of the nave. The tiers of beams in the towers are all new, from 1870. All parts of the roof and spire are like= wise modern. Only one single centrabbeam or »King« of oak is preserved from one of the old spires25. It is beautifully made with bevels and profiled protuberances as support for the props toward the spars. The original proportions of the cens tral tower can only be approximated from the old drawings (Fig. 17). These have, on the whole, been followed in the new tower, but it has also been given solid buttresses to the outer walls to divide the weight of the tower on to these. The oris ginal walls of the tower were thicker than the new. Contemporary with the church is its baptismal font of granite (Fig. 28). The basin is hewn from a solid block, as was customary and along the upper edge a bold rope outline is corved. On the sides is a relief showing a palmetto motive of Lombardian origin 26. The base is formed like an inverted trapezente capital, in form corresponding exactly to the four granite capitals above the columns of the nave. The cushion between the basin and the base consists of an intertwining of fluted bands, and on the trapezate sides of the base is a palmetto motive similar to that on the basin. The baptismal font now stands in the choir. — The small Romanesque crucifix=figure shown below is now to be found on the altar. M. Cl. 24