Vamlingbo / Vamlingbo kyrkby

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Results: 142 records

B01: symbol - tree - Tree of life

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

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - passant

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B03: animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant

Scene Description: to the left; not winged; could be rampant -- on the north side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B04: animal - mammal - stag - passant-regardant - eating snake

Scene Description: to the right; the snake decorated like an acanthus plant -- on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B05: Christ - Agnus Dei - passant - with cross and banner - cross-haloed

Scene Description: to the right; Lamb of God. Holding a cross with flag attached.-- on the west side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B05: Christ - Agnus Dei - passant - with cross and banner - cross-haloed - detail

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - sphinx - winged - male - bearded - passant-gardant

Scene Description: to the right; Sphinx. Bearded Man with eastern pointed beard and curved down moustache -- on the southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B07: animal - bird - eating acanthus branch?

Scene Description: a long-necked bird is eating acanthus branch or a snake with acanthus-like body, as in side 4 (stag and snake) - the composition harks back at the historiated initials or marginal text ornamentation in manuscripts -- on the south side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B08: animal - bird - crane or swan - drinking from chalice

Scene Description: Long necked bird (crane? swan?) drinking from a chalice -- on the southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH01: animal - mammal - lion - head

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

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH01: animal - mammal - lion - head

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

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: human figure - head - long-haired

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

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: human figure - head - long-haired

Scene Description: right-side view -- on the north side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: human figure - head - long-haired

Scene Description: left-side view -- on the north side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: animal - mammal - ram

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

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: animal - mammal - ram

Scene Description: right-side view -- on the west side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: animal - mammal - ram

Scene Description: left-side view -- on the west side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: animal - head - unidentified

Scene Description: a bear? -- on the south side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

animal - mammal - brear?

Scene Description: left-side view; a bear? -- on the south side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 8

Scene Description: the characteristic motif repeated in the fonts of the Byzantios workshop

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

information

Scene Description: notes taken on-site

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

information

Scene Description: notes taken on-site

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information

Scene Description: notes taken on-site

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information

Scene Description: notes taken on-site

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information

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - detail

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910820F1] [accessed 29 April 2021]

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view of base - east side

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - north side

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - south side

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - detail

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910820F1] [accessed 29 April 2021]

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view of basin - detail

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910820F1] [accessed 29 April 2021]

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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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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - interior

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - interior

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - interior - detail

Scene Description: carving pattern on the inside of the basin

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - south side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - southeast side

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view of basin - west side

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - east gate

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

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view of church exterior - north portal

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view of church exterior - north side - buttress

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view of church exterior - north view

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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 - frieze

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze

Scene Description: said to be made up of remains from the 12th-century church here, the frieze belongs to the Byzantios workshop and has many of the characteristics found on the baptismal fonts of the same workshop

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - frieze

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: at the centre of the frieze, the Majestas Domini

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: westernmost part of the frieze, left of the Majestas Domini -- Apostles?

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: Apostles? left of the Majestas Domini -- notice the characteristic motifs used bt Byzantios in the spandrels of his fonts and repeated here

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: Apostles? left of the Majestas Domini -- notice the characteristic motifs used bt Byzantios in the spandrels of his fonts and repeated here

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: Apostles? left of the Majestas Domini -- notice the characteristic motifs used bt Byzantios in the spandrels of his fonts and repeated here

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: Majestas Domini

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: Majestas Domini

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: Apostles? right of the Majestas Domini -- notice the characteristic motifs used bt Byzantios in the spandrels of his fonts and repeated here

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: Apostles? right of the Majestas Domini -- notice the characteristic motifs used bt Byzantios in the spandrels of his fonts and repeated here

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: Apostles? right of the Majestas Domini -- notice the characteristic motifs used bt Byzantios in the spandrels of his fonts and repeated here

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: to the right of the Apostles, two dragons, passant-regardant, with beautifully interlaced bodies, converge at a fleur de lis

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: one of the two dragons

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: to the right of the dragons are two frames with Byzantios characteristic themes: inside a round arch is a fabulous beast, passant-regardant, with an acanthus plant on the right; to the right of it the Lamb of God, passant to the left, holding the cross in the characteristic pose, another Byzantios theme

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

Scene Description: a beautiful acanthus vine bearing the arum fruit, rendered in the best of Byzantios' style

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - frieze - detail

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view of church exterior - southeast end

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view of church exterior - southeast end

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view of church exterior - southeast portal

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1901 by Olivia Wittberg (1844-1908) [edited for lens distortion], in [www.kms.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200028593] [accesed 13 January 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest portal

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view of church exterior - southwest portal - door - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church exterior - west tower

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view of church exterior - west tower

Scene Description: the present tower dates from the early-19th century, the previous ones destroyed by a number of causes

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view of church exterior - west tower - buttress

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view of church exterior - west tower - buttress - detail

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view of church exterior - west tower - buttress - detail

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view of church exterior - west tower - window

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vamlingbo kyrka [...] Kyrkan från nordväst."

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Image Source: digital image [538-5.TIF] of a 1898 B&W photograph by J.W. Hamner, Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vamlingbo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200028585.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vamlingbo [...] Kyrkomiljö."

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Image Source: digital image [dbg20161] of a 20 July 1996 photograph by Jan Norrman / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vamlingbo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000300024416.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2021]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - ceiling - painting

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting

Scene Description: on the wall above the choir: St. Christopher crossing a very busy river populated by fish, sirens, etc.

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting

Scene Description: a strange-looking head up in the angle above

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting

Scene Description: on the wall above the sacristy entrance

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel - north wall painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vamlingbo kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster, efter restaurering." -- Shwing the medieval font in the centre of the nave, towards the west end

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Image Source: digital image [538-70.TIF] of a 1960 B&W photograph by Georg Gådefors, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vamlingbo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200030024.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2021]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: showing the medieval font on the righ [north] side

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Image Source: digital image [538-56.TIF] of an undated [ca. 1890?] B&W photograph by Olof Sörling, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vamlingbo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200028683.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2021]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the baptismal font in the foreground

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting - detail

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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: 14th-century

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view of font

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view of font - east side

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view of font - north side

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view of font - north side

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view of font - northeast side

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view of font - northwest side

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view of font - sides 1, 2, 3

Scene Description: northeast side of the font [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - sides 2, 3, 4

Scene Description: north side of the font [orientation is approximate]

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view of font - sides 3, 4, 5

Scene Description: northwest side of the font [orientation is approximate]

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view of font - sides 4, 5, 6

Scene Description: west side of the font [orientation is approximate]

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view of font - sides 5, 6, 7

Scene Description: southwest side of the font [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - sides 6, 7, 8

Scene Description: south side of the font [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - sides 8, 1, 2

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

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

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view of font in context

Scene Description: seen here from the north; the font is located at the west end of the nave, just opposite the southwest entranceway

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00029VAM
Church/Chapel: Vamlingbo kyrka
Church Location: Vamlingbo 0498 623 31 Burgsvik, Sweden -- Tel.: Phone: +46 498 48 10 25
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Gotland, Gotllands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road I500, on the S tip of the island, 10 km SSW of Burgsvik, 30 km S of Hemse
Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Hoburgs församling
Historical Region: Gotlands södra härad, Hoburgs ting, Gotlands län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Byzantios [SHM et al.]
Church Notes: present church dates from the 13thC, but it likely replaced an earlier church of the 12thC here, an perhaps an earlier wooden church
In Fåhraeus (1974), Roosval (1918) and Stenström (1975). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910820F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century by Byzantios. On-site notes: the font has a round concrete plinth added at the bottom. Evidence of anchorings, a metal bolt inserted in the side of the sphinx, but no cover present. [cf. Image section for full iconographic program].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.969681, 18.230328
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 58′ 10.85″ N, 18° 13′ 49.18″ E
UTM: 34V 331638 6317424

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: The central hole was blocked by large cylindrical shaped stone sitting in the middle of the upper bowl. Too heavy to move. This must today hold the baptismal basin used (usually brass).
Rim Thickness: 8.8-9.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 59-59.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 77.5-78 cm* / 78 cm*
Basin Depth: 31-33 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 38.5-40 cm*
Basin Total Height: 49.8-51 cm*
Height of Base: 51 cm*
Height of Central Column: 32 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 28 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 - 82 cm* / 78 cm**
Font Height (with Plinth): 101-102 cm* [+18 cm for the modern plinth]
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910820F1]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974
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
Roosval, Johnny, Medeltida kunst i Gotlands fornsal, Stockholm: A.-B. Gunnar Tisells tekniska förlag, 1925
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"]
Tuulse, Armin, Romansk konst i Norden, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1968