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P.V. Jensen Klint
Grundtvig's Church
Copenhagen
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Although the architect and engineer P.V. Jensen Klint only won second price in a 1913 competition for a Grundtvig Memorial, which he had designed as a tower rich with decorative blindings, he was chosen to built the monument as he had included a church in his project. It was not until 1921 that the site was designated on Bispebjerg Hill and in 1927, the tower was completed. In 1930, Jensen Klint died and his son, Kaare Klint, completed the church nave and crypt with the final consecration taking place in 1940.
Grundtvig's Church is a three-isle, vaulted church with a tower of the same width as the nave. There is also a low, wide porch in the front. The material is light yellow, hand-molded brick laid in a cleverly designed bond, in which the headers coincide every fifth course. Combined with the high quality brick-work, this bond give a calm and distinctive wall surface. Architecturally, the church is a magnified restatement of the Danish village church. With its strong inspiration from the late Gothic, market-town churches, it is one of the final examples of National Romanticism, but with many original features in both combination and detail.
Guide to Danish Architecture 1000 -1960
Arkitektens Forlag
