Hamra

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity

Scene Description: Joseph not present. Virgin lying in bed. Christ child in manger above; ass on right and ox on left. Floral star between ox's horns and directly above manger. Child in swaddling cloth. [NB: narrative program proceeds from the right to the left].

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation

Scene Description: Simple scene. Few details. Virgin stands to left of Gabriel who is on the right. Her hands appear raised and Gabriel's arm reaches out toward her. There are no further details to note. [NB: narrative program proceeds from the right to the left].

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B03: angel - archangel - St. Michael and dragon

Scene Description: St.Michael stands (full frontal position) on dragon. He hold sword with right hand, upright and his scabber in left hand. He wearing a robe and cape fastened to neck. The dragon faces (head broken) to the left in the composition. [NB: narrative program proceeds from the right to the left].

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - the three Wise Men are warned in a dream by an angel not to return to Herod

Scene Description: An angel comes out of a cloud above. The three kings are in a bed, their heads at the right of the composition. They are covered in a blanket and lying on a pillow. The angel has two wings and the cloud is a bit irregular. [NB: narrative program proceeds from the right to the left].

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings

Scene Description: the Adoration of Magi scene occupies two arches. This arch includes Madonna and Child enthroned, frontal posture with child on lap. Throne is worn but might have had animal heads on either side. Christ child points to the first approaching king and holds something in his left hand. Both Virgin and Child are haloed and she wears a habit-like head gear (no evidence of braids). The first king approaches the seated Madonna from left (she is seated on the right side of the composition). The Magus is wearing a crown (Byzantine headwear? Type) has stooped head and walks in profile. He is wearing long robes. His hands, covered in a cloth, offer a gift.The second arch of this scene includes the remaining two kings, walking in profile toward the right, holding a round container with knob on top, on hands covered with cloth. They too are crowned in similar types of crowns as the first king. There are no other features evident in this scene. [NB: narrative program proceeds from the right to the left].

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - detail

Scene Description: the second part of the Adoration of the Magi scene. Two Magi carrying gifts 'passant' towards the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt - Manus Dei

Scene Description: Haloed Virgin and Child on horseback. Hand of God coming down from a cloud on the upper left of scene. Joseph looks at viewer and wears a beard; carries a staff over his left shoulder with belongings in a cloth. [NB: narrative program proceeds from the right to the left].

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt - Manus Dei

Scene Description: above and to the left, the Hand of God points to Mary and the Christ child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Scene Description: Two haloed figures embracing in typical pose stand on a wall or brick foundation which has two towers, one on each side of them, acting as a frame and setting for the scene; the brickwork is evident, linear and straight; the two towers are practically identical, pointed steeples with knob finials; at the the top of each are two round-arched (Romanesque) windows. The towers are also made of brick. [NB: narrative program proceeds from the right to the left].

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH01: animal - fabulous animal or monster?

Scene Description: on the east side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- Eared or horned beast? Like the other three heads, now very eroded and painted over, which makes identification difficult

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: animal - fabulous animal or monster?

Scene Description: on the north side of the base [orientation is approximate] (the one on the left in this image) -- Like the other three heads, now very eroded and painted over, which makes identification difficult

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: human figure - male - head - long hair

Scene Description: on the west side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- Like the other three heads, now very eroded and painted over, which makes identification difficult

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: animal - fabulous animal or monster?

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin (the left head in this image) -- Like the other three heads, now very eroded and painted over, which makes identification difficult

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

angel - Seraphim

Scene Description: two open wings, two folded below; feline-head capital and square column below

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

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

Scene Description: containing seven scenes which run right to left -- the columns are not uniform: several of the capitals are lion-head shaped; the others are roughly cushion-shaped

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: much eroded now

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: a common shape on fonts of the Semi-Byzantios group/workshop: a central bulb-like shape with two irregular triangles as wings; appears on several of the spandrels of this font; the column below the spandrel has a lion-head capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: a second such spandrel on this font; a common shape on fonts of the Semi-Byzantios group/workshop: a central bulb-like shape with two irregular triangles as wings; this is a second one where the column below the spandrel has a lion-head capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: quite different from the other two, with thistle-like leaves; here the capital is roughly a cushion-capital, and the column is square

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrel between the Adoration of the Magi (left) and the Flight to Egypt (right). The vegetal in the spandrels resembles an acanthus plant braided with two strands; the capital is different from those of the other columns, quite plain; ditto the column and its base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - patterns - scalloped

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - patterns - scalloped

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

information

view of base - detail

Scene Description: the additional drain at the joint of the base with the plinth

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910817F1] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910817F1] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910817F1] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910817F1] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Annunciation to Mary

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Visitation

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Nativity

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Flight to Egypt

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: St Michael slaying the dragon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of basin - interior - detail

Scene Description: notice the pattern of the carving tool

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 1, 2

Scene Description: Dream of the Magi in the left arch; two Magi of the Adoration scene in the right arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 2, 3

Scene Description: the full scene of the Adoration of the Magi in the two arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 3, 4

Scene Description: Flight to Egypt in the left arch; Nativity in the right arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 4, 5

Scene Description: the Nativity in the left arch; the Visitation in the right arch, framed by the two towers

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 4, 5, 6

Scene Description: Nativity, Visitation, Anunciation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 5, 6

Scene Description: Visitation, Anunciation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 6, 7, 1

Scene Description: Anunciation at the extreme left; St. Michael and the dragon in the middle; Dream of the Magi at the extreme right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: openeing into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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 - west side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption; "Hamra kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydväst." -- showing the blocked original west portal of the tower

Image Source: digital image [491-2.TIF] of a 1915 B&W photograph by Einar Erici, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200020691.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - south view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - southwest portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - southwest portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - west façade - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - towert - southwest view - detail

Scene Description: the outlines of the two earlier portals (?) are visible on the west and south sides of the tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - lytchgate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamra kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."

Image Source: digital image [491-7.TIF] of a 1900 B&W photograph by J. W. Hamner, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200020701.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church interior - Holy Rood

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side

Scene Description: sacristy door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch and Holy Rood

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - detail

Scene Description: by the southwest entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - statue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - statue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - statue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - Christ

Scene Description: probably a copy; the original likely at the Visby Museum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910817F1] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of font - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamra kyrka [...] Dopfunt, av sandsten, cirka 1170-1180."

Image Source: digital image [491-71.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Johnny Roosval, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200020814.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamra kyrka [...] Dopfunt, av sandsten, cirka 1170-1180."

Image Source: digital image [491-72.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Johnny Roosval, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200020815.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - north side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - nottheast side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - south side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - west side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamra kyrka [...] Dopfunt, av sandsten, cirka 1170-1180."

Image Source: digital image [491-74.TIF] of a 1910 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200020818.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamra kyrka [...] Dopfunt, av sandsten, cirka 1170-1180."

Image Source: digital image [491-69.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Johnny Roosval, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200020811.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamra kyrka [...] Interiör mot väster."

Image Source: digital image [491-39.TIF] of a 1915 B&W photograph by Einar Erici, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200020758.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 May 1997 by BSI

view of font in context - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamra kyrka [...] Interiör mot väster."

Image Source: digital image [491-31.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Olof Sörling, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200020749.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

INFORMATION

FontID: 00033HAM

Church/Chapel: Hamra kyrka

Church Location: Hamra kyrka 1, 623 32 Burgsvik, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 498 48 10 25

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located at the SE end of the island, SE of Burgsvik

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the central nave, just opposite south door

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Semi-Byzantios (Gotland)

Cognate Fonts: Alskog, Jumkil, Linde, Tofta

Church Notes: original church 12thC(?); re-built 14thC; modified 17th, 18th and 19thC; restored 20thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Roosval (1918), Fåhraeus (1974) and Stenström (1975). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910817F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century by Semi-Byzantios, the present paint not original. On-site notes: the plinth, a round cut stone,is a later addition. A circular floral motif ornaments or encircles the base and has a small round basin cut into the one side which permits the draining water to spill outward. One of the scenes on the basin appears to be that of St. Michael fighting the dragon [cf. Image section for full iconographic program]. [Hamra site re-visited 28 May 2018]. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.976083, 18.313389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 58′ 33.9″ N, 18° 18′ 48.2″ E

UTM: 34V 336714 6317934

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: See description of plinth. Central hole in bowl and through the base. -- no lining, but the inner basin is painted

Rim Thickness: 7-8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 54-56 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 70-72 cm* / 71 cm**

Basin Depth: 38 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 35 cm*

Basin Total Height: 53-55 cm*

Height of Base: 40-43 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 95-96 cm* / 96 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 117.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910817F1]

REFERENCES

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

Sigurjónsdóttir, Svava, "Semi-Bysantios dopfuntar: en tolkning grundad på ikonografisk och stilistik analys", Stockholm, 1990

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