Frojel / Fröjel
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Results: 86 records
B01: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
![seen here only in part, at the extreme right of the image; facing right; a lion? a horse? -- on the east side [orientation approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005050_compressed.png)
Scene Description: seen here only in part, at the extreme right of the image; facing right; a lion? a horse? -- on the east side [orientation approximate]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI
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B02: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant - detail
![facing left; a lion? a horse? -- on the northeast side [orientation approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005052_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing left; a lion? a horse? -- on the northeast side [orientation approximate]
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B02: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
![facing left; a lion? a horse? -- on the northeast side [orientation approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005051_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing left; a lion? a horse? -- on the northeast side [orientation approximate]
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B03: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
![facing right; a lion? a horse? -- on the north side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005053_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing right; a lion? a horse? -- on the north side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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B04: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
![facing left; a lion? a horse? -- on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005049_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing left; a lion? a horse? -- on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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B05: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
![facing right; a lion? a horse? -- on the west side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005048_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing right; a lion? a horse? -- on the west side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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B06: animal - mammal - quadruped - horned - passant
![facing left -- on the southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005044_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing left -- on the southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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B07: animal - mammal - quadruped - horned - passant
![facing right [cf. FontNotes] -- on the south side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005042_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing right [cf. FontNotes] -- on the south side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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B08: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
![facing left; a lion? a horse? -- on the southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005043_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing left; a lion? a horse? -- on the southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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LBH01: animal - mammal - ram - head
![on the east side of the base [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the east side of the base [orientation is approximate]
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LBH01: animal - mammal - ram - head
![on the east side of the base [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005035_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the east side of the base [orientation is approximate]
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LBH01: animal - mammal - ram - head
Scene Description: facing approximately east-southeast
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LBH02: human figure - head?
![facing approximately north-northwest; it may have never been fully carved [or, was it broken off?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005038_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing approximately north-northwest; it may have never been fully carved [or, was it broken off?]
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LBH03: human figure - male? - head
![facing approximately west [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005039_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing approximately west [orientation is approximate]
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LBH04: animal - mammal - lion - head
![facing approximately south-southwest [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121005037_compressed.png)
Scene Description: facing approximately south-southwest [orientation is approximate]
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view of font
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view of font
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view of font - south side
Scene Description: orientation is apprximate
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view of font - west and southwest sides
Scene Description: orientation is approximate
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view of font - west and northwest sides
Scene Description: orientation is approximate
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view of font - south and southeast sides
Scene Description: orientation is approximate
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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design element - motifs - nail-head
Scene Description: vertical rows of it separate the different basin sides; also another row at the top
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view of basin - interior - lining or insert
Scene Description: the removable wood-and-metal lining
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: with the liner removed; no evidence of a drain hole
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view of basin - upper view - detail
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: with the wood-and-metal liner in
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Kjellin (1925)
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: a later insert repair to the ashlar wall using cruder stone blocks
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: a later insert repair to the ashlar wall using cruder stone blocks
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
Scene Description: detail of ashlar work on the church exterior, here on the sides of the tower
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: detail of ashlar work on the church exterior, here in the proximity of the southeast portal
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: detail of ashlar work on the church exterior, here in the proximity of the southeast portal
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: detail of ashlar work on the church exterior, here in the proximity of the southeast portal
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: detail of ashlar work on the church exterior
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view of church exterior in context - churchyard, cemetery
Scene Description: taken from the churchyard, showing the proximity of the coastline
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: the tower and the southwest portal
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: the exterior corresponding to the nave, with the tower in the left
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view of church exterior - southeast portal - door - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast portal - door
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view of church exterior - southeast portal
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view of church exterior - east end
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery and lych-gate
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font in context
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view of church interior - ceiling - painting
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view of church interior - chancel - choir - stalls
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view of church interior - chancel - north wall - detail
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view of church interior - chancel - south wall
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view of church interior - alms box
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view of church interior - west end - detail
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view of church interior - sacristy - doorway
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view of church interior - nave - north side - detail
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship
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view of church interior - retable
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view of church interior - pulpit - detail
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view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail
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view of church interior - Holy Rood
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view of church interior - tombstone
Scene Description: some bearing Runic inscriptions
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view of church interior - tombstone - detail
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view of church interior - tombstone
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view of font in context
Scene Description: beneath the north side of the chancel arch
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: view from inside the chancel; the font can be seen in the foreground,, right (north) side, beneath the chancel arch
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view of base - detail
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information
Scene Description: posted outside the church
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view of base - south side
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view of base - southwest side
Scene Description: orientation is approximate
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view of base - south and southeast sides
Scene Description: orientation is approximate
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information
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information
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information
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information
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00019FRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1997-05-21; 2012-08-21
Font Date: 1166
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [base only] -- 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Romanesque [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Byzantios [base only] / Fröjel group / Fröjelgruppen (basin only)
Cognate Fonts: Other fonts of this group, including the basin from Anseküll (on Ösel, Estonia) and one base at the Gotlands Fornsal [cf. Index entry for Visby No. 2]
Church / Chapel Name: Fröjels Kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the NE end of the chancel arch
Church Notes: late-12thC(?) church; modified ca. 1300, 17thC
Church Address: Fröjels kyrkby 140, 623 55 Klintehamn, Gorland, Sweden
Site Location: Gotland, Gotlands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) county road 140, about 5 km S of Klinteham, on the W coast
Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift
Historical Region: Gotlands södra härad, Hejde ting, Gotlands län
Additional Comments: mixed work / composite font? / recycled base? : no scenes and has a zig-zag (?) edging around the bowl and strange creatures; the font was neither examined further nor photographed.
Font Notes:
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In Roosval (1918) with date 1166 [cf. infra]. Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. III) as a composite font of two parts, basin and base, from different periods: the sandstone base is the usual round pedestal ornamented with four protruding heads, a work attributable to the Byzantios' workshop and dated to 1166 by Roosval [cf. infra for challenged dating]. The basin, however, is dated to the 14th century and a product of the "Fröjelgruppen" [=Fröjel group"] of works exported from Gotland to Scania, the current Danish territory, and other northen destinations (Germany, Estonia, etc.); it is a polygonal basin, its eight (?) sides divided by nail-head bands and ornamented with fabulous animals. A plain flat wooden lid covers the basin. The basin is described and illustrated also in Kjellin (1925). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910504F1] agrees with the SK attribution [cf. supra]: "åttasidig cuppa ur Fröjelgruppen medan foten ursprungligen tillhört en Byzantiosfunt från 1100-talets andra hälft ". On-site notes: in our opinion Roosval's dating of the base is too early, as are most of his datings of the Byzantios' works; the basin has a nail-head edging around the bowl and also strange-looking creatures; the base by Byzantios is typical of his workshop; the basin, however, is not; there is a removable metal (copper?) lining mounted on a wooden frame that is inserted into the stone basin; it has no drain, and there is no draing hole in the stone basin either; there is an open section in the centre-ring section of the base that may have been used as part of the drainage system of the earlier basin. The font's northeast and north sides are very difficult to access, as the font is located against the north side of the chancel arch and the northeast side is almost flush against the west end of the choirstalls. The fanciful animals carved on the basin sides are done in pairs, facing each other; some have horns, some do not; some have elaborate tongues sticking out, others do not; they may represent real animals, perhaps lions, horses and mountain goats of some sort, given the long horns on the horned ones; their tails resemble acanthus plants. [NB: church visited again 23 May 2018]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to professor Øystein Hjort, København Universitet, for the Kjellin reference to this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 34V 330856 6358240
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.335625, 18.189819
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 20′ 8.25″ N, 18° 11′ 23.35″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (base only ) - limestone (basin only)
Number of Pieces: two [+modern plinth]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Rim Thickness: 8.5-11.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 55-57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 74-79 cm* / 74 cm**
Basin Depth: 21-23 cm*
Basin Total Height: 37-40 cm* [includes square lower base]
Height of Base: 47 cm*
Height of Central Column: 30-31 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm* / 68 cm**
Font Height (with Plinth): 101 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910504F1]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain wooden lid present in 1997
REFERENCES
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