Tofta nr. Visby

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Joseph in a dream

Scene Description: Joseph sits to the right on a throne like chair. He has a beard and haloe. His right hand hold his head - elbow on the knee and open palm supports head which leans to the right. His left hand holds a book open to the viewer which rests on his left knee (the book is standing upright and open for viewer to read). The left figure is the angel in profile - 3/4 profile - haloed and wears long robes.He right hand is raised in shoulder height pointing to Joseph. Both wings are showing. Joseph's throne has a high back with Gotland knobs.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Joseph in a dream

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

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

Scene Description: Mary with long braids lies reclining in the same type of bed found in Alskog. She has a pillow and blanket; bed has a footboard. Her right hand rests on the covers on her abdomen. Robes richly ornamented. Her sleeve has a very wide cup and reaches all the way down to the floor - this could be NB regarding style of clothing worn at that time. There is no Joseph present. Above her is the manger - made of four horizonall platforms (oval) on which the baby lies, swaddled in criss-cross pattern. The baby's face has been chipped off. Cruciferous halo. Over the baby are two animal heads, to the right the ass and in the centre is the ox, their faces right on the infant's body. To the left of ox is the eight pointed star.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

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

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

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Scene Description: Two haloed women stand in profile in flowing robes stand embracing, a shrub on either side of them; the shrub on the right has a large bud, incised in diamond pattern, like a cone.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

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

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the left, Gabriel to the right

Scene Description: Gabriel, winged and haloed, stands in 3/4 pose on the right with his right hand raised in gesture of benediction toward Mary's head; his left hand (at 60* angle) hold up his cape, which has a buckle at the neckline. Mary stands in profile facing Gabriel; she is haloed; her hands together in prayer gesture; Mary wears a head covering and is haloed. No dove or ray of light evident.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the left, Gabriel to the right

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

B05: 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: In a trapezoidal bed the heads of the three Magi are to the right; the heads are badly eroded, so can't tell if haloed; a haloed angel appearing from a cloud above the bed; the cloud has horizontal wavy lines; the angel's right hand points to the Magi, his left hand holding a scroll - this area has been badly chipped and it is difficult to read

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B05: 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

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

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - two magi bearing gifts

Scene Description: This scene takes place under two arches; in the first arch the Madonna and Child sit enthroned to the right of the compositionl the Child is not wrapped in her mantle and he points to the approaching kings in a gesture of benediction; two kings in profile, hands covered in cloths, and offering gifts; this scene is identical to the one carved on the Alskog font. Lie the Child, the Madonna is haloed and wears a head covering. In the second scene the remaining two kings, hands covered, crowned in the same type of 3-knobbed crown, offer their gifts, which are all the same, round containers with a lid and a knob on top.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B06: view of basin - detail

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

B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child

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

B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt

Scene Description: In the left of the composition Joseph leads the horse, holding a staff with his saddle bags, both hands on his left shoulder; he is bearded and haloed, and wears long robes, his left foot raised in stride; the bridke is wrapped around his left. Mary is full frontal pose, Child wrapped in a mantle; both haloed. Infant's hands are not visible. He is cradled in her left arm and shoulder. Very naturalistic position.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt

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

LBH01: animal - mammal - lion - head

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: animal - mammal - ram - head

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: animal - mammal - lion - head

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: human figure - head - long-haired

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: human figure - head - long-haired

Scene Description: on the southeast side of the base [orientation is approximate]; south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

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

Scene Description: the capitals and bases vary in shape

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

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

Scene Description: a lion head serves as a disproportionate capital to one of the columns of the arcade; there are two (?) other lion-head capitals in the arcade, but this is the largest and more spectacular

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: a thick braided moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 8

Scene Description: the vegetation motif that decorates the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: on the later lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: on the later lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: all around the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

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information

Image Source: field-notes taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

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information

Image Source: field-notes taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: showing also the patterned centre ring

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910810F1] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of base - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - south side

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view of base - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: detail of damage to the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910810F1] [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.: 910810F1] [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.: 910810F1] [accessed 28 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

Scene Description: one of the columns and spandrels on the basin

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

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 1-2

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view of basin - sides 3-4

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view of basin - sides 4-5

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view of basin - sides 6-7

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view of basin - sides 7-8

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view of basin - sides 8-1

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view of basin - sides-5-6-7

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: opening into the chancel and east end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Scene Description: opening into the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Scene Description: west frieze

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Scene Description: east frieze

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

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view of church interior - bench - Gotland bench

Scene Description: Medieval?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - bench - Gotland bench - detail

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view of church interior - bench - Gotland bench - detail

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view of church interior - chancel

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Coronation of the Virgin

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

view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: late-18th century

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - pulpit

Scene Description: 17th-century?

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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: 14th-century? made in Lubeck?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - Madonna

Scene Description: 14th-century?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

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view of font

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

view of font - east side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

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view of font - west side

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view of font in context - east side

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view of font in context - northeast side

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, in the centre aisle, opposite the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00034TOF

Church/Chapel: Tofta kyrka

Church Location: ESKELHEM PRÄSTGÅRDEN 181, 622 70 Gotlands Tofta, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 498 26 65 25

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located off (E) county road 140, just E of Tofta Strand, on the W coast of the island, 25 km SW of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Eskelhem-Tofta församling

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

Font Location in Church: In the centre of the church, at the W end of the nave, opposite the south doorway

Date: ca. 1150-1180?

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

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

Cognate Fonts: Alskog, Hamra, Jumkil, Linde

Church Notes: The church has a double nave, centre column divides it into two parts. The church has a "Romanesque Gotland Bench" as shown on the Grotlingbo font which is used by the seated figures. The church has a large square apse.

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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. III: 234-236) as a sandstone cylindrical mounted baptismal font attributed to the anonymous master Semi-Byzantios and dated circa 1150-1180 by Roosval; the sides of the basin are ornamented with an arcade of round arches containing scenes from the childhood of Christ (Annunciation Flight to Egypt, Nativity, etc.). The central ring of the base is a thick braided rope motif; there are four heads at 90-degree angles on the stem of the base; the font stands on an early-Gothic limestone plinth ornamented with foliage. In Stenström (1975. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910810F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century by Semi-Byzantios. On-site notes [three visits by BSI 1997, 2002, 2012]: this font appears to be almost identical to other Semi-Byzantios fonts; the pictorial narrative moves from the right to the left; the carving style is less refined and more animated. It is in good condition with less paint than the Alskog font, but the stone itself has worn irregularly through chemical erosion; there are two plinths in place; the upper is round and follows the outline of the round base; the lower plinth is square and protrudes considerably; it is ornamented with acanthus motifs; it appears to be early-Gothic and probably never meant to be part of the font; paint has been scraped off the font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.521611, 18.168833

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57 ° 31 '17.08 "N, 18 ° 10' 08.07" E

UTM: 34V 330455 6378987

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: There was originally only the central system through bowl and base; this was discontinued when the lower ornamented plinth was placed under the font. No drainage system was used then. By the appearance and style of the lower plinth - it could have been carved in the 13th century or copied to look as if it came from this period.

Rim Thickness: 7.5-8.5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 50-51.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 66-68 cm* / 67 cm***

Basin Depth: 26-28 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 25-26 cm*

Basin Total Height: 37 cm*

Height of Base: 66 cm*

Height of Central Column: 37 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 66 cm* / 74 cm** / ***

Font Height (with Plinth): 103-105 cm* / 105 cm***

Square Base Dimensions: 87 x 89 cm* [the later lower base]

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Fåhraeus' (1974: 36) / *** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910810F1

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

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

Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941

Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936

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

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

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