[[File:Gloslunde kirke, Lolland 01.jpg|thumb|Gloslunde Church in 2020]]
'''Gloslunde Church''' is a [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] church east of [[Dannemare]], some {{convert|13|km|abbr=on}} southeast of [[Nakskov]] on the Danish island of [[Lolland]]. Now whitewashed, it was built of red brick in the 13th century.<ref name=gp>[http://gloslundepastorat.dk/Hist/Glos1.aspx "Gloslunde kirke"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518184158/http://gloslundepastorat.dk/Hist/Glos1.aspx |date=2015-05-18 }}, Gloslunde Pastorat. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 12 August 2013.</ref><ref name=natmus>[http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Maribo_0353-0363.pdf Kirsten Weber-Andersen, Otto Norn, Aage Roussell, Gertrud Købke Knudsen, "Gloslunde Kirke"], ''Danmarks kirker: Maribo amt, Volume 8'', 1951, Nationalmuseet, pages 353-363. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 10 August 2013.</ref> The [[Listed buildings in Lolland Municipality|heritage listed]] [[Gloslunde Rectory]] is located next to the church.
==Architecture== [[File:Gloslunde kirke 01.jpg|thumb|Gloslunde Church]] Built of red brick but now whitewashed, the church consists of a Romanesque [[chancel]] and [[nave]] and a [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] porch and [[sacristy]]. A 14th-century timber bell tower stands close to the church's northwest corner. There are two small Romanesque windows on the chancel gable, now both bricked up. The east gable is also decorated with a round-arch frieze. The original flat wooden ceiling was replaced in the Gothic period with a star-shaped vault in the chancel and two cross-vaults in the nave.<ref name=natmus/><ref name=gp/>
==Interior== In a Neo-Gothic frame, the [[altarpiece]] contains a painting of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane by [[Frederik Christian Lund]] in 1872. An earlier catechism altarpiece from 1581 in the Renaissance style can be seen in the porch with text from [[Martin Luther]]'s [[catechism]] in its six panels. The [[pulpit]] (c. 1590), also in the Renaissance style, presents the paintings of the [[four Evangelists]] set in rural scenes with hills and hedges.<ref name=natmus/><ref name=gp/>
<gallery mode=packed heights=180px> File:Gloslunde Kirke - interior.jpg|Interior File:Gloslunde kirke - altertavle.jpg|Altarpiece File:Gloslunde Church - organ and votive ship.jpg|Organ and [[votive ship]] </gallery>
==See also== *[[List of churches on Lolland]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
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[[Category:Lolland]] [[Category:Churches in Lolland]] [[Category:Romanesque architecture in Denmark]] [[Category:Lutheran churches converted from Roman Catholicism]] [[Category:Churches in the Diocese of Lolland–Falster]]