Lau
Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Results: 152 records
B01:
New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - journey of the Wise men - departing on horseback
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [orientation is approximate] -- [NB: this scene has also been read as the Flight to Egypt: Virgin and child seated on a horse, mounted, to the right is Joseph carrying a staff with saddle bags / bundle. -- the carving is very worn and the interpretation is tentative]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
B02:
New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - the three Wise Men are warned in a dream by an angel not to return to Herod
Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate] -- Dream of the Magi with an angel to the far left [NB: alternative reading: Annunciation to the Shepherds, although it would be out of narrative sequence].
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
B03:
New Testament - Passion of Christ - Last Supper
Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [orientation is approximate] -- The last supper, four figures behind a table. The one on the right has a crossed halo, Christ, with kneeling Judas in the front. [NB: alternative reading: Adoration of the Magi]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
B04:
New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation
Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate] -- The Flagellation of Christ. In the centre, Christ is tied to a tall column, wearing loin cloth. To each side a figure in the action of whipping Christ with what appear to be branches(?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
B05:
New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [orientation is approximate] -- The Crucifixion scene with the Sun and the Moon present
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
B06:
New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation
Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate] -- Two figures, haloed. Gabriel stands on the left and the Virgin stands on the right.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
B07:
New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [orientation is approximate] -- The Visitation shows Elizabeth and Mary embracing, both haloed.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
B08:
New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity
Scene Description: on the southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate] -- the Nativity with the Virgin lying to the left, Joseph seated to the right. There is an angel above the Virgin, pointing downward or swinging a censer. Above Mary is the manger, with a child, head to the left and above it the heads of two animals.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
B09:
New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings
Scene Description: Adoration of the magi, wearing crowns, in profile, carrying gifts. The Madonna and Child to the right, frontal.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF01:
Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child
Scene Description: on the east side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- enthroned Madonna and Child, full frontal; Madonna with a bare head and long braids; the child is sheltered inside her mantle and wears a 3-point crown.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF01:
Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF01:
Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF01:
Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF02:
Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys
Scene Description: on the northt side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- enthroned St.Peter is holding two keys in his right hand; the left hand is not visible.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF02:
Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF02:
Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF03:
cleric - bishop
Scene Description: on the west side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- Under the Annunciation, a seated bishop holding in the left hand a closed book on his left knee. The hat/mitre is broken, but it appears to have been a bishop's mitre.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF03:
cleric - bishop
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF03:
cleric - bishop - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF04:
Old Testament - Abraham as father of all believers - Father Abraham with the souls
Scene Description: on the south side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- seated/enthroned figure: bearded Father Abraham holds in his lap six heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF04:
Old Testament - Abraham as father of all believers - Father Abraham with the souls
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
LBF04:
Old Testament - Abraham as father of all believers - Father Abraham with the souls - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
blank
Scene Description: the four sides now appear blank, but may have had painted motifs on them -- seen here the northwest side of the base, with Peter to the left, and a seated bishop to the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: all around the top of the base, interrupted by the heads of the figures; seen here: Abraham (left), Mary (centre), St. Peter (right)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: very worn in some areas, but was originally all around the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
information
Scene Description: posted outside the church: the ruins of the old rectory
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI
information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI
information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital images of field notes taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital images of field notes taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital images of field notes taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910819F1] [accessed 21 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910819F1] [accessed 21 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing L-->R: [Crucifixion?] --> Annunciation --> Visittation --> Nativity
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing L-->R: Annunciation --> Visittation --> Nativity --> Adoration of the Magi
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the three shadows ined up vertically might suggest the Adoration of the Shepherds?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: centre right: Annunciation? --> Visitation?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: possibly the Flagellation scene in the centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: perhaps the Flight to Egypt?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of basin - detail - Adoration of the Magi
Scene Description: the three crowned figures and the Madonna and Child are still discernible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
Scene Description: the withered maypole in August
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - lych-gate
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - lych-gate - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - north portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - northeast end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - northeast portal
Scene Description: opens into the nave from the north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - northeast portal
Scene Description: opens into the west end of the nave from the north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - northeast portal - east side - detail
Scene Description: an eagle with its beak and claws around the rol moulding of the column
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - northeast portal - west side - detail
Scene Description: a human overwhelmed between the Lamb of God, to the left of the image, and a troublesome monster, to the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - northwest portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - northwest portal - west side - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - northwest portal - west side - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - northwest portal - west side - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - rectory - ruins
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkan från söder, detalj [...] Två män framför Lau kyrka på Gotland. Den äldsta delen av kyrkan byggdes på1200-talet. Kyrkan är en av de största landskyrkorna på Gotland."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [506-3.TIF] of a 1875 glass plate negative [Kulturmiljöbild: 16000200023054] by Carl Fredrik Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lau_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023104.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior - southeast portal
Scene Description: opens into the chancel from the south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2006 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lau_kyrka_view01.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Shows two portals opening into the nave; the main portal in size and decoration is on the southeast and opens into the chancel, which is the largest space in this building.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church exterior - southwest portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: an old photograph displayed inside the church in June 2018
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Två män framför Lau kyrka på Gotland. Den äldsta delen av kyrkan byggdes på1200-talet. Kyrkan är en av de största landskyrkorna på Gotland."
Copyright Statement: image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1875 glass plate negative [Kulturmiljöbild: 16000200023054] by Carl Fredrik Lundberg. in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lau_Church,_Gotland,_Sweden.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption; "Lau kyrka [...] Kyrkomiljö"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Norrman / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2021
Image Source: digital image [dbg21055] of a 21 July 1996 photograph by Jan Norrman in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lau_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000300024352.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.5
view of church interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - Holy Rood
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - Holy Rood
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - altar and retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - bell
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - chandelier
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - column - base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - crucifix
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church interior - crucifix - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church interior - crucifix - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - lamp
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - nave - column - base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - nave - column - base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - nave - column - base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church interior - nave - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - nave - looking southeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - nave - west end - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - painting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - painting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - paiting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - reredos
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - reredos - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - reredos - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: made in Lübeck in the early-15th century
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Scene Description: the back of the retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - retable - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of church interior - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of church interior - window - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - window - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of church interior - window - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by BSI
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910819F1] [accessed 21 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of font - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of font - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of font - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font - northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font - south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2023 by BSI
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 July 2002 by BSI
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 April 1993 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 00002LAU
Church/Chapel: Lau kyrka
Church Location: 623 62 Lau, Gotland, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Gotland, Gotllands län
Directions to Site: Located at the I536 and I548 crossroads, S of county road 144, on the SE side of the island, about 35 km ENE of Burgsvik, 40-45 km ESE of Visby
Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- När-Lau församling
Historical Region: Gotlands södra härad, Burs ting, Gotlands län
Font Location in Church: In the centre of the large, four columned nave, towards the W end
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sighraf / Sighrafr / Sigraf
Cognate Fonts: a somewhat smilar base on the font at Knivsta
Church Notes: early-13thC church; may have been raised on the remains of an earlier building; the church is one of the largest parish churches on the island. It is stark and very open. It has a large rood, gothic altarpiece, and ornate wrought iron candelabra. On the western end of the church there is a large wall mural of the Trinity, 14-15th c.?.
Noted in Roosval (1918). Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. VI, hft. 7: 629-632, 654): "the font dates from about 1200, and has been attributed to the workshop of Master Sigraf." This same source reports a limestone object found in the churchyard (ibid.); it is round with a large hole in the centre and measures 72 cm in diameter and 30 cm in height; it is suggested that it may have been the base of another font. Noted in Stenström(1975). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910819F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the last quarter of the 12th century by Sigraf. On-site notes: the font stands on two plinths; the upper basin is badly worn [many years spent in the churchyard, exposed to the elements], but it is still possible to discern most of the images that make up the scenes: Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Flight to Egypt, Last Supper, Flagellation and Crucifixion. The stem of the base has retained its fine carving lines, unlike the basin [is this the original base? if it is not, it would explain the different styles evident between the bowl and base, as well as the obvious miss-match with the round plinth]. The figures on the corners of the base are: Madonna and Child, St. Peter, a Bishop and Abraham; a thick rope moulding adorns the upper part of the base. The pictorial program proceeds from left to right. Two large round plinths are under the font; there is no evidence of drainage on either of them. The different parts of the font appear to be of different stones, limestone and sandstone.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
57.3315,
18.627167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
57° 19′ 53.4″ N,
18° 37′ 37.8″ E
UTM: 34V 357157 6356778
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone [cf. FontNotes]
Number of Pieces: two (plus plinth)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 6-7.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 62-64 cm* / 63 cm**
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 22-25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40-42 cm*
Height of Base: 32-34 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm* [94 cm*] / **
Font Height (with Plinth): 126 cm* (three plinths)
Square Base Dimensions: 37 x 40 cm* [not really square; it has rounded corners]
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: measurements are a composite of several takings by BSI] / ** Sveriges Kyrkor
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal platform with cake-like top; painted wood
REFERENCES
Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974
Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990
Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918
Stenström, Tore, "Problem rörande Gotlands medeltida dopfuntar", Umeå, 1975
Tuulse, Armin, Romansk konst i Norden, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1968