Hablingbo No. 1

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animal - mammal? - lion? - head - 2

Scene Description: the two survivng heads on this base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

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Image Source: field-notes taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

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Image Source: field-notes taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

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Image Source: field-notes taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

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information - stained glass windows - Vita Christi

Scene Description: the present windows are a replica of the originals which are held between several Swedish museums

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]

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view of base

Scene Description: as it stands beneath the tower [August 2012]

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view of base

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view of base

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view of base

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view of base - detail

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view of base - detail

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view of base - detail

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view of base - upper view

Scene Description: showing the vertical and side drains

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

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view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Christ in Majesty; the two attending figures may be Cain [viewer's right] and Abel [viewer's left]; at the extreme left the murder of Abel [though the weapon does not confirm to the original story]; the flying devil counsels Cain as the latter makes his offering; at the extreme left, two birds

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - west side - detail

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view of church exterior - north portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - door - detail

Scene Description: Cistercian-style ironwork

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: the nave volume with the southwest portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: showing the chancel volume and the southeast portal

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - southeast portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: opening into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

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view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

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 - 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 - 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 - east side - detail

Scene Description: frieze of capitals with [left->right]: Annunciation to Mary; Visitation; Nativity with Joseph seated at the far right. The north portal is the original of the stone Romanesque church of the 12th (?) century

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: Annunciation and Visitation

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view of church exterior - southeast portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: Nativity with seated Joseph at far right

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view of church exterior - southeast portal - east side - frieze - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: frieze of capitals with the Adoration of the Magi. The north portal is the original of the stone Romanesque church of the 12th (?) century [NB: the wasp's nest above the Magi is real]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - west side - frieze - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Scene Description: opening into the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: the Egypticus-style head, and two bishops in niches below

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: the Egypticus-style head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: in the upper niche: seated cleric [bishop?] wearing unusual conical hat ball-finial; right hand raised in benediction; left hand holds a double-barred cross, also known as Croix de Lorraine and archiepiscopal cross. The hat o mitre (?) on his head is also unusual, not a bishop's mitre. Both of these symbols appear reminiscent of the Eastern Orthodox rites

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: in the lower niche: bishop wearing the traditional mitre; holds ornate staff in his right hand; the left hand holds a book

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: in the lower niche: bishop wearing the traditional mitre; holds ornate staff in his right hand; the left hand holds a book

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: frieze of capitals: five standing human figures: the first figure on the left is bearded and has long hair, his right hand holds his left hand at the wrist, a symbol of grief; a child's head and hands hang upside-down his front; the next three figures to the right are also bearded men, and have a horizontal sword floating across them at neck height; the three swords point in different directions [right-left-right]; the figure on the righ stands facing the previous scene, book held in the left hand, the right hand raised with an open palm -- Massacre of the Innocents?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: the first figure on the left is bearded and has long hair, his right hand holds his left hand at the wrist, a symbol of grief; a child's head and hands hang upside-down his front

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: the three figures are of bearded men, and have a horizontal sword floating across them at neck height; the three swords point in different directions [right-left-right]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: the figure stands facing the previous scene, book held in the left hand, the right hand raised with an open palm

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: Egypticus-style head with two clerics in ornate niches below

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: Egypticus-style head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: the upper niche: probably a bishop; the head broken off; both hands hold a large book

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: the lower niche: a bishop holds his staff in the right hand; the left hand holds a book

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: the upper niche: probably a bishop; the head broken off

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: the lower niche: a mitred bishop holds his staff in the right hand; the left hand holds a book

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: the Egypticus-style head and the frieze of capitals behind

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: six figures:[left->right]: 1)standing bearded man holds a book [Barnabas?]; 2)standing figure holds a club [James the Less?]; 3)standing bearded figure holds an unidentified object in his right hand {skin?] and has a sword horizontally in his garment [Bartholomew?]; 4)seated figure wearing a cruciferous halo; right hand raised; left hand rests on a book and a child without a halo (Christ?) Trinity? if so, why is the child not haloed? where is the Holy Ghost?); 5)standing bearded figure holds a sword point up in his left hand, the right hand points to a Latin cross incised on the side of the sword [Paul?]; 6)standing bearded man holds a cross (?); or is it a key? [Peter?] [NB: as with the north portal, the wasps' nest between the Epypticus-style head and the first figure is real]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: the seated haloed figure with three of the Apostles (?)

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view of church interior - alms box

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view of church interior - altar and retable

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - capitel - detail

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view of church interior - nave - column - capital

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view of church interior - nave - detail

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view of church interior - nave - detail

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view of church interior - nave - detail

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view of church interior - nave - detail

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view of church interior - nave - detail

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view of church interior - nave - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - painting - detail

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view of church interior - painting - detail

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view of church interior - painting - detail

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view of church interior - painting - detail - St. Michael

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: made of Burgsvik (Gotland) sandstone in 1643 by Peter van Egen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

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view of church interior - sacristy - doorway

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view of church interior - stained glass windows - Vita Christi - detail

Scene Description: the present windows are a replica of the originals which are held between several Swedish museums

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - stained glass windows - Vita Christi - detail

Scene Description: the present windows are a replica of the originals which are held between several Swedish museums

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - stained glass windows - Vita Christi - detail

Scene Description: the present windows are a replica of the originals which are held between several Swedish museums

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - stained glass windows - Vita Christi - detail

Scene Description: the present windows are a replica of the originals which are held between several Swedish museums

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - stained glass windows - Vita Christi - detail

Scene Description: the present windows are a replica of the originals which are held between several Swedish museums

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - stained glass windows - Vita Christi - detail

Scene Description: the present windows are a replica of the originals which are held between several Swedish museums

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - tombstone

Scene Description: with Runic inscription; 11thC-12thC?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - tower - detail

Scene Description: the room at the bottom of the tower houses the base from the old font: seen here on the ground, right side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - window

Scene Description: with Vita Christi scenes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - window

Scene Description: with scenes of the Vita Christi

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - window - detail

Scene Description: Annunciation to Mary

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view of church interior - window - detail

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi

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view of church interior - window - detail

Scene Description: Baptism of Christ in the Jordan [NB: this scene is from a window that illustrates the public life of Christ]

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view of church interior - window - detail

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view of church interior - window - detail

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view of church interior - window - detail

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view of church interior - window - detail

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view of church interior - window - detail

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view of font base

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view of font base

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view of font base

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view of font base in context

Scene Description: showing the base of the medieval font in the tower room

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

view of font base in context

Scene Description: showing the base of the medieval font in the tower room

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2023 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00022HAB

Church/Chapel: Hablingbo kyrka

Church Location: Hablingbo, 623 42 Havdhem, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located off (E) highway 140, 6 km NNW of Havdhem, on the S half of the island

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Havdhems församling

Historical Region: Hablinge ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the vestry, beneath the tower, NW corner

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Byzantios

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Roosval (1918) as the base of font by Byzantios workshop [NB: Roosval does a comparative study of the heads on the Byzantios bases, but does not give any information on the Hablingbo font itself, presumably disappeared by then]. This base is also noted in Fåhraeus (1974). On-site notes: at the time of our visit [August 2012] the base is stored in the northwest corner of the tower room, a location where the church stores the wheelchair access ramps, etc. The base is typical of the Byzantios workshop: thick roll moulding atop, round body with four protruding heads; two of the heads are broken off, only the stump visible now; of the remaining heads one is a lion, the other is difficult to tell, most likely animal as well; there is an incised inscription in Latin capitals on the lower side of the base [transcription not available]; the roll moulding in the centre ring position is drilled for the usual centre drain hole, but it has also a horizontal opening that appears in some other Gotland fonts [NB: it is not clear whether both holes where contemporary, and what the purpose of having the two would be; if water were released from the basin it would drain chiefly through the vertical hole into the ground, the usual -though not unique- drainage system in medieval fonts, with very little, if any, volume of water exiting via the side; yet, the side hole is much wider]. [cf. Index entry for Hablingbo No. 2 for the 17th-century font in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.187278, 18.262736

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 11′ 14.2″ N, 18° 15′ 45.85″ E

UTM: 34V 334579 6341555

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Basin Interior Shape: [missing]

Basin Exterior Shape: [missing]

Drainage Notes: both holes are visible in the upper ring of the base

Height of Base: 39-40 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: the round drain hole is 5 cm in diameter -- the width of the base at the top is 43-45 cm in diameter]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: written in Latin alphabet capitals

Inscription Location: around the lower side of the base

Inscription Text: "[...] D [?] 13 [?] BLEF [...]"

Inscription Source: full transcription not available

REFERENCES

Borelius, Aron, "Problemet Majestatis", Norrköpings museum. Berättelse över verksamheten jämte bifogade skrifter, [Norrköping?]: [Norrköpings Museum?], 1949

Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974

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

Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936

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