Monday, July 27, 2009  Durup church / Durup kirke, Gislum
herred, Aalborg amt.  Durup Church, ca. 12 km northwest of Hobro
Durup sogn, Gislum herred, Aalborg amt.  The large free-standing
church in Durup is a longhouse building with a slender tower to
the west and a porch to the north. The church was originally a
Romanesque nave with a narrow choir and possibly an apse in
granite ashlars. In the re-worked ashlar-walls is only one
original window left on the north side , but in the wall-work
are placed three smooth monolit cover stones from other
Romanesque windows The original north door has a thympanum with
a cross in high relief. The longhouse has four flat-stretched
star vaults ; they are probably from the second half of the
1500s. The Gothic tower is in granite ashlars in the bottom
section, above this in boulder and monk bricks; it seems that it
was heightened just before the reformation. To the north of the
tower is a free stairway to the upper storey. The tower room
with a flat plaster loft is connecte