Lutheran
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...
church in
Aars
Aars or Års, () is a Danish town with a population of 8,474 (1 January 2022)Vesthimmerland Municipality
Vesthimmerland Municipality or Vesthimmerlandøs Municipality is a municipality ( da, kommune) in the North Jutland Region in Denmark. It covers an area of 768,08 km² (2013) and has a total population of 38,277 inhabitants (2008). The Munici ...
,
North Denmark Region
The North Jutland Region ( da, Region Nordjylland), or in some official sources, the North Denmark Region, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish municipal reform, which abolished the tra ...
, Denmark.
History and description
The original church on the site, the church of the mediaeval
Aars parish
Aars or Års, () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 8,474 (1 January 2022)Romanesque granite building dating from the first half of the 13th century. By the 20th century the town of Aars which had grown up round it was much larger and it was necessary to expand it. In 1921 it was enlarged and extensively re-built on a cruciform plan; the re-build included the construction of a new nave. At the same time it was painted white.VisitNordjylland.com: Aars Church /ref>
The
baptismal font
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Aspersion and affusion fonts
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was made by Christian Andersen in 1937 from a re-cycled
steam roller
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; it includes the symbols of the four evangelists. The church also contains a large 18th-century crucifix and an altarpiece by Rudolf Petersen dated 1923 representing the
Lord's Supper
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. The top of the communion table is a tombstone of blue slate.
The churchyard contains a
runestone
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