Garde / Garda

Results: 107 records

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B01: symbol - tree - Tree of life

Scene Description: a large acanthus plant, similar to the one on the southwest side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

B02: animal - mammal - stag - at a plant or tree

Scene Description: a hart bites a branch of a large acanthus plant or tree

B03: animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant

Scene Description: Lion with mane only around neck; this "mane" could be a nimbus

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

B04: Christ - Agnus Dei - haloed - cruciferous halo - with cross and banner - passant

Scene Description: facing left; appears to be a ram

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

B04: Christ - Agnus Dei - haloed - cruciferous halo - with cross and banner - passant - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

B05: Christ - Etimasia? - holy mass?

Scene Description: The Virgin stands to the left, in profile next to the altar. On the altar is a cross over a chalice. The Virgin (or maybe Simeon?) has raised hands. The figure is haloed and wears a robe tied with a knotted robe. It has long hair perhaps braids which fall down the back. It looks like a female figure.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

B05: Christ - Etimasia? - holy mass?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 May 2016 by BSI

B05: Christ - Etimasia? - holy mass? - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

B06: symbol - tree - Tree of life

Scene Description: the second large acanthus plant; similar to the one on the east side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

B07: animal - mammal - lion - winged lion - haloed - symbol of Mark?

Scene Description: the body facing left, the head turned to the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

B08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged lion - passant

Scene Description: Winged beast, much like the lion on the left but it is not haloed and the head is not very feline-looking [whatever the carver intended]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

LBH01: human figure - head - male - long-haired - bearded

Scene Description: on the east side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: on the north side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: human figure - head - male - long-haired

Scene Description: on the west side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: animal - mammal - ram - head

Scene Description: on the south side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

LBS01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll - in a circle

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

LBS02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll - in a circle

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

LBS03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll - in a circle

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

LBS04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll - in a circle

Scene Description: on the southeast side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: with the exit drain in it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding - detail

Scene Description: with the exit drain in it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

information

Scene Description: posted outside this church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Matteus / evangelistsymbol / kvinnohuvud"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Markus / evangelistsymbol / gumsehuvud"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lukas / evangelistsymbol / djurhuvud"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Johannes / evangelistsymbol / djurhuvud"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of base - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "helgon framför altare"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Agnus Dei"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "hjort / lejon"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "bevingade lejon - det ena med gloria"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "livsträd"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - east side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - north side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - northeast side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - northwest side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - south side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - southeast side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - southwest side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - west side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - lych-gate

Scene Description: one of four in this churchyard

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - lych-gate - east view

Scene Description: photographed across the churchyard from the west end of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - lych-gate - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: opening into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: the main portal; it opens into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: The detached lynch gate.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - aumbry

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - aumbry - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - aumbry - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - south side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - painting

Scene Description: 134th-century paintings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2005 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gotland-GardeKirche-07.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - chancel arch - painting - detail

Scene Description: 134th-century paintings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - painting - detail

Scene Description: 134th-century paintings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - painting - detail

Scene Description: 134th-century paintings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: one of the painted monuents on the north wall of the chancel, above the sacristy entrance

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: made in Burgsvik, Gotland, in the late 17th-century

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: made in Burgsvik, Gotland, in the late 17th-century

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - sacristy

Scene Description: the north side of the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1918? -- not in its present location

Image Source: digital image of an illustration (Photo in A.T.A) in Roosval (1918)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] [accessed 14 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font - east side

Scene Description: showing the drain on the southeast side of the centre ring moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - east side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - north side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - south side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - west side

Scene Description: [orientation approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - west side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 May 2016 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the nave; looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2005 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gotland-GardeKirche-03.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 May 2016 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00020GAR

Church/Chapel: Garde kyrka

Church Location: 623 63 Garde, Ljugarn, Gotland, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 73 969 29 63

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located off local road I554, N of county road 144, on the SE side of the island, about 40 km SE of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Garde församling

Historical Region: Gotlands södra härad, Garde ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the central nave just east of western town opposite main south door.

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Byzantios

Church Notes: mid-12thC [ca. 1140?] church; modified mid-13thC, 14thC,

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (1925- ) as a sandstone octagonal mounted baptismal font; identified as a work of the Byzantios group and dated to the latter half of the 12th century by Roosval (1918). The same source shows the original foundation of the font in the Romanesque floor. An arcade of round arches resting on low columns appears all around the basin; inside arches, the following motifs, each corresponding to a side of the basin: haloed person on the left points both hands to an altar on the right; on the altar there is a chalice, a Maltese cross above the chalice; Tree of Life; haloed lion (Mark's symbol?); griffin (Christ symbol?); Tree of Life; stag eating from a tree; lion (Christ's symbol?); Agnus Dei with labarum, facing left. The plain thick ring moulding of the upper base has a large square opening for the lateral drainage of the basin; below it, four heads at 90-degree angles (two human, one ram, one lion); on the sides, between the corner heads, are the symbols of the four Evangelists holding scrolls, each encircled; the lower base is cylindrical and plain. The font is raised on two other plinths. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the seconf half of the 12th century by Byzantios. On-site notes: the upper rim of the basin is round but the rest of the basin is octagonal; the painted font is in fair condition; the figural scene on the basin may represent the Virgin in front of the altar (Etimasia). As noted above, the font was shown standing on a single plinth on the old floor, without the larger modern plinth; the photograph in Roosval (1918) shows the font located next to a wall, not as it is now, in the centre of the nave. [NB: church re-visited 26 May 2018]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.317139, 18.582056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 19′ 1.7″ N, 18° 34′ 55.4″ E

UTM: 34V 354385 6355276

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two (plus plinths)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: There is a central hole in the upper bowl which drains not through the base but out at one side of the base. A portion of the centre ring has been cut away to drain the water.

Rim Thickness: 8.5-11 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 59-61 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 77-80 cm* / 77 cm**

Basin Depth: 28 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 34-35 cm*

Basin Total Height: 46-47 cm*

Height of Base: 55 cm* [includes lower base of 12 cm]

Height of Central Column: 44-45 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm* [91 cm* w/o lower base] / 91 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 124 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910822F2]

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

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984

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

Tuulse, Armin, Romansk konst i Norden, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1968