SKALLERUP KIRKE

 In a little over a month Peter and Maria will be married in this church,
It has an amazing history is is much older than the country in which we live....
Both Maria's grandparents and parents were married in this church.  I was keen to learn a little more about it so did some research.
Here is what I found out.....

Skallerup Kirke in Hjorring Denmark...

The church was built in the beginning of the 12th century. The tower 3 centuries later.

Skallerup church is situated a few km from the north sea behind the inland dunes. North of the church was the village Skallerup, which has disappeared like many other villages in the area caused by the sand drift. The church has a Romanesque choir and nave, a western tower, sacristi and porch from the late Gothic period. The Romanesque building is in granite ashlars, the north door is walled-in while the extended south door is still in use. Two round-curved monolit-cover stones from two original windows are placed in the south wall of the choir. A chessboard pattern in the wall of the nave.The round choir arch inside is preserved. The cross vaulted sacristi in monk bricks and ashlars was added in the late Gothic period and at almost at the same time the tower was built to the west. Its bottom room opens to the nave in a pointed arch.The church bells han g in a bell frame. the whole building was restored in 1942. On several occassions , latest in 1910 and 1939, were found badly preserved late Gothic frescoes which were covered in white-wash again.

The communion table in ashlars has a niche for hiding and a reliquary in the top plate. The altar piece is a Lutheranian triptychon from 1600 is placed by Hans Rosenberg like the pulpit from 1605, both probaby from Niels Ibsen's workshop. A half-circular basin upon a round foot. (baptismal font). A fine late Gothic choir arch crucifix, repaired in 1914. A pretty late Gothic cupboard from 1529 with a minuskel-inscription stands in the choir, where is also a large painted anetavle (genealogical table) with 62 coat of arms for the ancestors of Hans Wulf Unger of Villerup and his wife Berete Kaas, who with other members of the family were buried under the choir. Some coffin plates are preserved from the 1600s and 1700s. At the church yard a Romanesque grave stone with a curved top. Bell 1) 1562 2) 1789 from Bakker, Rotterdam, saved in 1875 from the wreck "The Crescent".

Bell Tower

Beautiful Gardens around the Kirke

The tower was added a couple of centuries after the original building.

 Keen to see it in real life.
Not much longer to wait....
It has a rich history....
If you would have told me that my son would married a beautiful Danish woman in a very old church on the other side of the world when he was younger I would have found it hard to beleive...
Even more so since he met Maria in Peru in the midde of the Amazon Jungle.....
Some things are just meant to be....