Trakumla / Träkumla

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left

Scene Description: Gabriel stands to the left of the composition and Mary to the right, haloed and robed. Gabriel, haloed, raises the left wing over Mary's head; the right arm of the angel is also raised, pointing to Mary's head. Mary, to the right of the composition, stands full front, robed, haloed; her right arm is extended toward the angel, the hand with palm open, thumb upward; the left hand to her chest.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 May 1997 by BSI

B02: animal - mammal - dog - riding on a quadruped

Scene Description: a four-legged beast, passant-regardant on the left of the composition; head facing the animal (dog?) that sits on its back. The beast holds a leaf in its mouth. The animal on its back is dog-like amd sits on a pedestal on the back of the quadruped. At the hind quarters of the animal grows a plant.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

B02: animal - mammal - dog - riding on a quadruped

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 May 1997 by BSI

B03: Apostle or saint - standing - unidentified - 2 - cross - patriarchal cross

Scene Description: Two haloed figures stand full frontal wearing robes. The figure on the left is holding its robe with both hands. The figure on the right is holding robe with both hands in the front. To the right of the figures there is a double cross (lorraine cross). To the left of the composition is tree or shrub.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

B03: Apostle or saint - standing - unidentified - 2 - cross - patriarchal cross

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 May 1997 by BSI

B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - lion - fighting

Scene Description: Centaur passant-regardant facing left; the upper part of the body (human) is turned back toward the left, to a lion that is attacking it; the lion has got its front paws into the hind legs of the centaur and its mouth bites the centaur's back. The centaur holds a sword in its right hand and a round shield.in the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - lion - fighting

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 May 1997 by BSI

B05: human figure - thorn extractor - Spinario

Scene Description: The figure on the left appears to be a haloed child dressed in a gown down to his knees; his elbows are bent and hands almost together in a prayer posture. The figure on the right is seated, very large by comparison; he holds his left ankle with his left hand, while the right hand appears to be touching the heel or sole of his foot. The figure iappears haloed, although the shape maybe a hat, or part of his hair

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

B05: human figure - thorn extractor - Spinario

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 May 1997 by BSI

B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - aspis - rider

Scene Description: an aspis (?) passant-regardant towards the right carries a rider - the rider appears to be fighting the aspis holding the beast by the neck.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - aspis - rider

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 May 1997 by BSI

B07: animal - mammal - lion - stag - fighting

Scene Description: a lion passant-regardant to the right has its head turned leftwards and upwards holding in its jaws an upsidedown stag. Up in the left corner of the composition is the head of a bird upsidedown; an upright shrub on the left as well.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

B07: animal - mammal - lion - stag - fighting

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 May 1997 by BSI

B08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - stag - dog - fighting

Scene Description: Stag passant towards the left is attacked by a winged beast riding on its back and biting the stag's neck. Below the stag the figure of a dog bites the stag's right hind leg

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

B08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - stag - dog - fighting

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 May 1997 by BSI

LBH01: animal - mammal - ram - head

Scene Description: on the east side of the base [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: animal - mammal - lion - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: head

Scene Description: on the west side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- although now painted as a human head, it may have been originally an animal head; it was painted after damage removed part of the face/snout of the original bear or lion's head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: human figure - head - long-haired

Scene Description: now painted as a female head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: with the very short columns and very large spandrel motifs characteristic of Byzantios

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 8

Scene Description: the very large spandrel motifs characteristic of Byzantios

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: notice also the plain underbowl, now painted

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

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Image Source: field-notes taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

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Image Source: field-notes taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

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Image Source: field-notes taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910809F4] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910809F4] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910809F4] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910809F4] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910809F4] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910809F4] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 1-2-3

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: opening into the nave

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - chancel portal

Scene Description: opening into the chancel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkan som ödekyrka från söder." -- Showing the church in 1898, before the 1917 restoration; it had been abandoned in 1868

Image Source: digital image [535-18.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1898 by Hugo Frölén, in Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB-16000200028138] [ns.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200028138.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2014 by W.carter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trakumla_kyrka_Gotland_Sverige_1.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2018]

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view of church exterior - west tower - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Träkumla kyrka [...] Träkumla ödekyrka: Träkumla kyrkan som ödekykra innan restaureringen 1917" -- showing the church in 1899; the church had been abandoned in 1868 but would eventually be restored in 1917

Image Source: digital image of a 1899 B&W photograph by O. Almgren [16000200028129] in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_old5.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Träkumla kyrka [...] Träkumla ödekyrka: Träkumla kyrkan som ödekykra innan restaureringen 1917" -- showing the church ca. 1890-1900?; the church had been abandoned in 1868 but would eventually be restored in 1917

Image Source: digital image of an undated [ca. 1890-1900?] B&W photograph by J.W. Hamner [16000200028421] in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_old6.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkomiljö. Träkumla kyrka [...] Länsväg 142 går förbi söder om kyrkan."

Image Source: digital image [dbg20005] of a 20 July 1996 photograph by Jan Norrman, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000300024484.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Träkumla kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydväst. Kyrkan invigdes 1287 d. 01 september enligt en latinsk inskrift. Den består av ett raktangulärt långhus med ett smalare, rakt avslutat torn, befintlig träöverbyggnad tillkom 1917." -- showing the church eleven years after its restoration; it had been abandoned in 1868 and restored in 1917

Image Source: digital image [bwb13015] of a 21 May 1928 B&W photograph by Berit Wallenberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000061346.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church interior - Holy Rood

Scene Description: said to date from the late-Middle Ages, but done in Romanesque style

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Scene Description: the west side of the chancel arch has retained some of the paintings by the late-medieval "Passionsmästaren"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Träkumla kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster. Före restaureringen." -- Showing the church interior in 1891; the church had been abandoned sine 1868; it would be eventually restored in 1917

Image Source: digital image [535-42.TIF] of a 1891 B&W photograph by Olof Sörling, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000028159.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Träkumla kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster. Före restaureringen." -- Showing the sorry state of the church interior in 1903; the church had been abandoned in 1868 and would not be restored until 1917

Image Source: digital image [535-45.TIF] of a 1903 B&W photograph by J.W. Hamner, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000028163.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Träkumla kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster. Före restaureringen." -- although the caption reads 'before the restoration' this undated photograph appears to show restoration activities inside the church; the church had been abandoned in 1868

Image Source: digital image [535-41.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000028170.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the old font is partly visible by the south doorway, semi-hidden by the bank of box-pews

Image Source: digital image [535-50.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1939 by Alfred Edle, in Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB-16000200028175] [ns.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200028175.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2018]

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view of church interior - processional cross

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - processional cross - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: Mary crowned in Heaven -- 14th-century

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: 14th-century; Crowning of Mary in Heaves

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image [535-84.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1919 by Einar Erici, in Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB-16000200028302] [ns.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200028302.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Träkumla kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."

Image Source: digital image [535-86.TIF] of a 1904 B&W photograph by J.W. Hamner, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Träkumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000028304.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910809F4] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910809F4] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 May 1997 by BSI

view of font - sides 8-1-2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: the cover did not escape a painting over either

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2002 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00028TRA

Church/Chapel: Träkumla kyrka

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael [medieval dedication to St. Mary and St. Michael -- cf. FontNotes]

Church Location: 621 94 Visby, Gotland, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 498 26 20 55

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located off (W) county road 142, 6 km S of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Stenkumla församling

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

Font Location in Church: Located inside the church, at the W end of the nave, opposite the S doorway

Date: ca. 1150s?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Byzantios

Church Notes: a faint Latin inscription near the triumphal arch records that the church was inaugurated 1 September 1287 in honor of the Virgin Mary and St. Michael; church abandoned 1868; restored 1917; renovated 1951; 15thC Passiomnmaster interior paintings;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. III: 42, 44, 47) as an octagonal mounted font dated to the mid-12th century from the workshop of the Byzantios master. Each of the basin sides has a round arch resting on very short columns, under which a scene is represented: 1)Annunciation; 2)zoomachia; 3)human figure and patriarchal cross; 4)centaur; 5)Spinario; 6)griffin and rider; 7)zoomachia; 8)zoomachia. The stem of the base has four protruding heads at 90-degree angles. In Stenström (1975). In Nordström (1984). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910809F4] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century by Byzantios, painted in the 1780s with thick oil paint of bright colours. On-site notes: richly re-painted, in the late 18th century, showing many details that probably were not there in the original paint. Nordström (1984) is correct in identifying the Annunciation to Mary, but his suggestion that there was also a Visitation scene is not. Two plinths have been added to the lower base of the font; the upper plinth is shaped to conform with the shape of base; the lower plinth extends outward beyond the font and has a circular plate cut in it to hold the water as it drained out; this has since been plugged [i.e., the hole in the lower base]. The font is now [1997, 2002, 2012] located at the west end of the nave; it shows in early KMB photographs [ca. 1900, 1939] right in the southwest corner of the nave, west of the south entranceway.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.560333, 18.312972

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 33′ 37.2″ N, 18° 18′ 46.7″ E

UTM: 34V 339255 6382944

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two (plus plinthj)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 7.5-8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 54-55 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 69 cm* / **

Basin Depth: 26 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 42-45 cm*

Height of Base: 45-48 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm* / 91 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 103-104 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / **

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain, with knob handle; painted all over

REFERENCES

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

Gustafsson, Evald, "Törnutdragaren i Gotlands 1100-talskonst [=Spinario in the Medieval Art of Gotland]", 41 (1958), RIG-Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, 1958, pp. 97-105; r["References"]

Lillie, Louise, "Tornen I Foden", 4 (1983), ICO – Iconographisk Post. Nordisk tidskrift för bildtolkning – Nordic Review of Iconography, 1983, pp. 26-32, 5 fig. English summary.; r["References"]

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

Stenström, Tore, "Problem rörande Gotlands medeltida dopfuntar", Umeå, 1975

Svanberg, Jan, "Kampen mellan ont och gott på dopfunten I Hög", 1 (1980), ICO – Iconographisk Post. Nordisk tidskrift för bildtolkning – Nordic Review of Iconography, 1980, pp. 16-30, 14 fig. English summary; r["References"]