Vall / Vall nr. Visby

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

Scene Description: Mary stands frontal, robed and wearing head wear, haloed, right hand raised to her chest, palm showing. Left hand holds a closed book. Left figure, winged, stands profile, haloed, robed and right hand raised pointing to the Holy Dove. Left hand holds the garment. Holy Dove touches Mary's head.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 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

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

Scene Description: Mary holds a book in her left hand; a bird (dove?) flying into Mary's halo

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Scene Description: Mary and Elizabeth embrace, both haloed. Mary wears head cover, Elizabeth does not. A fleur de lis separates this scene from the next, the Nativity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

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

B02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: between the Visitation (left) and the Nativity (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity

Scene Description: Figure to left is Mary, reclining in kidney-shaped bed. Her right hand supports her head. The left hand lying on side of abdomen. In the centre of the composition is child in manger. The manger a plain rectangular shape. The infant project rays project onto Mary. Over Mary's bed the ox and to right of the manger and above, the ass. Between the two animals is the 8-point star. A paschal candle separates this scene from the next scene of Joseph' s dream

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity

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

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Joseph in a dream

Scene Description: a paschal candle introduces this scene. Joseph sits on rock. His head is bent forward resting on his right palm His left hand rests on his lap. He is bearded and haloed. No hat. Above him a winged angel appears from a cloud. No arms on this angel.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Joseph in a dream - detail

Scene Description: the animal and the upper arm belong to the next scen, probably the Adoration of/Annunciation to the Shepherds

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to the shepherds

Scene Description: Only the head of an animal (a bull?) and an arm above it remain of this scene; the rest was carved off at some point in the past [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - visit of the three Wise Men to King Herod - 1 Wise Man

Scene Description: King Herod seated on a throne with a sword. He is crowned and a mantle covers his shoulder and legs. The right arm protrudes with a sword and the left hand points to the sword. Just to the left of him, is a standing crowned figure in profile, probably one of the Magi

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - visit of the three Wise Men to King Herod - 1 Wise Man

Scene Description: Herod in the context of the standing Magus to the left, and the other two Magi on the right that are part of the Adoration scene to the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - visit of the three Wise Men to King Herod - 1 Wise Man

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

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

Scene Description: Two magi on the left walk toward the right, both crowned, shoulder length hair, rich gowns, hands forward holding round containers with covers. No cloths over their hands. To the right sits Madonna and Child enthroned. Full frontal pose and holds child to her left. The child is profile and right hand (no haloe) extended with two fingers pointing to first king. His left hand at a 90* angle holds an object perhaps a scroll.

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 (two) - Madonna and Child

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

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

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 (two) - Madonna and Child - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple

Scene Description: To the left stands a figure in profile, a man, bearded and no haloe, hands in prayer gesture - a priest like figure. To the right is an altar on which there is a chalice, and on the other side rests the childs feet. The child sits on his mother's hands and left arm resting on his lap. His right arm raised in benediction. Above the altar an upsidedown dove. To the right of the altar, Mary, is standing, haloed (like the child) in profile, wears head cover and long robes. A figure to the right of Mary. In profile, haloed, female (?), holding dove in hands.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple

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

B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kristus som värdommare detaljbild av dopfunten i Valls kyrka på Gotland utförd av Majestatis, avfotograferad bild från Allhems Svenskt konstnärslexikon."

Image Source: digital 8 April 2020 of an illustration in Allhems Svenskt konstnärslexikon, Gotländska stenmästere (1959: 50)

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B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists

Scene Description: Christ seated on a throne/rainbow and right hand raised in benediction gesture. Left hand holds a book and part of his robe. He is haloed with cross. He is barefoot. Inscription on frame of mandorla. Four corners ornamented symbols of the Evangelists. Upper right medallion has angel holding scroll. Upper left medallion has eagle. Lower left medallion bull with book (Luke?). Lower right medallion (Mark)? With animal holding book. Two figures stand on either side of Christ in Mandorla: the woman on the left, holds a child, her arms are draped with cloth; woman and child are not haloed. Figure on right, haloed, is holding a container in his left hand and censer in his right. Gabriel immediately to the right is part of the next scene, the Annunciation to Mary.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists

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

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists - detail

Scene Description: the haloed censing figure and two of the Evangelists' symbols inscribed in circles [NB: the wing visible at the extreme right of the image belongs to an angel in the next scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists - detail

Scene Description: the haloed woman carrying a baby, and two of the Evangelists' symbols inscribed in circles: St. John's in the upper one; the one in the lower circle believed to be St. Luke's ox

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists - detail

Scene Description: close-up of Christ's left hand holding a book; outside the mandorla, to the right, the censer; below, St. Mark's symbol in a cricle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists - detail

Scene Description: St. Luke's symbol

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists - detail

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

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists - detail

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

B09: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - symbols of the Evangelists - detail - inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area] The four Evangelists' symbols inscribed in circles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

LBS01: animal - reptile - snake - 4?

Scene Description: forming a cross interlace

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

Scene Description: remains at some spots

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - braid - 3-strand

Scene Description: all around the lower basin side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

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 - patterns - interlace

Scene Description: interlace of ear-shaped motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

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

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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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symbol - cross - Greek - pattée - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - west side

Scene Description: notice a)the remains of a braid on the centre ring; b)a knotted string (?); c)the rough-cut sides to right and left. Even though the base appears now to be quite similar to the later bases on the Paradise and Mussel fonts of Gotland, it is quite likely that this was an earlier base with four heads at 90-degree angles, a common design on the island used by several of the workshops; the knot is probably all that remains of the snakes that slither their way between the heads and ther open surfaces of the base. The spaces between the heads would have had motifs or symbols on them, either painted or carved, or both, as in this case of several snakes forming a cross interlace

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the crosses right on the spot where the font side was carved off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: damage to the 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.: 910510F2] [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.: 910510F2] [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.: 910510F2] [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.: 910510F2] [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.: 910510F2] [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.: 910510F2] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of basin - east side

Scene Description: the east side of the basin was mostly carved off at some point in the past to fit the font against the chancel arch [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 3, 4, 5

Scene Description: L->R: Adoration of the Magi - Presentation at the Temple - Christ in Majesty

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - sides 5, 6, 7, 8

Scene Description: L->R: Christ in Majesty - Annunciation to Mary - Visitation - Nativity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910510F2] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: opening into the north side of the tower interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Scene Description: west side frieze

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

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

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital image [536-1.TIF] of a 1891 B&W photograph by Olof Sörling, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valls_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200028403.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2010 by Karl Brodowsky [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valls-kyrka-Gotland-Kor1.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2013

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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 - northwest view

Image Source: digital image [536-3.TIF] of a 1891 B&W photograph by Olof Sörling, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valls_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200028412.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: retable of sandstone made in 1684 by Rasmus Larsson Ockes, Burgsvik.stonemason

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: 'epitaphium' dated 1728 and located on the north wall of the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the old font in the centre aisle

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

view of church interior - retable - detail

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 - tabernacle

Scene Description: ca. 1300, in the apse, to the right (south) of the altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Valls kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, av Majestatis. Troligen 1167."

Image Source: digital image [536-79.TIF] of a 1914 B&W photograph by Einar Erici, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valls_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200028509.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.: 910510F2] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of font - east and northeast sides

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 - southeast side

Scene Description: showing the chiselled out side; the likelyhood is that the font was 'trimmed' to make it fit into a tight space

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

view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the medieval baptismal font in one of its several locations inside the church though the ages, this time by the north pillar of the chancel arch

Image Source: digital image [536-48.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valls_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200028477.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2021]

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view of font in context - west side

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00038VAL

Church/Chapel: Valls kyrka

Church Location: Vall Kyrka 1, 621 93 Visby, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotllands län

Directions to Site: Located off (S) county road 142, 8 km W of Roma, about 15 km S of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Vall, Hogrän och Atlingbo församling

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in the centre aisle, just opposite of main S door

Date: ca. 1167? [Roosval)

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Majestatis [SHM] / Majestatis or Tryde master

Church Notes: medieval [13thC?] church; The church is large with a double nave and large centre column. No wall paintings evident. A modern rood is in the choir. Four crosses are carved on the top of the rim of the upper bow.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. III: 67, 75, 77-80): cylindrical mounted baptismal font dated by Roosval et al. to 1167 and attributed to the Majestatis workshop. Described and illustrated also in Fåhraeus (1974: 42, etc.). The basin sides are ornamented with scenes from the childhood of Christ and a Majestas Domini in a mandorla that contains an inscription [cf. Inscription area]. Patterned underbowl. Head motif at the ring moulding of the base. In Nordström (1965). In Stenström (1975). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910510F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century by Majestatis bearing the inscription "+ MAGNV : NOME : DOMINI : EMANVE : A O + "; the SHM entry suggests that the damaged panel contained the Massacre of the Innocent scene; the present colours are likely to match those originally painted on the font. On-site notes: the back part of the basin, which probably had the full scene of the Adoration of the Shepherds [and, perhaps, a Massacre of the Innocent to the left of the seated Herod?]; that part was cut off to make the font fit against the chancel arch, where it was still placed circa 1942 when the SK documentation was prepared; at that time the font was located against the north side of the chancel arch and showed no trace of paint. The font would have been originally located in the west end, by the south door, where it now [1997-2012] stands, now fully painted; it is in fair condition except for the alterations noted above. The pictorial program moves from the left to the right. The Christ in Majesty is the centre image where all meet. The heads on the base have been removed, but at least one has been painted (?) on the upper ring of the base. Rope motif adorns the upper rim of the bowl and the lower edge, and a braid ornaments the centre ring on the base. Also, a braid encircles the underside of the bowl. The plinth raises the font but is too narrow for standing.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.520792, 18.345167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 31′ 14.85″ N, 18° 20′ 42.6″ E

UTM: 34V 341008 6378469

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8-9 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 55-56 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 74-75 cm*

Basin Depth: 32-33 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 34-35 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50-51 cm*

Height of Base: 36-37 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 87-88 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 108 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: Fåhraeus (1974) measurements and those in the SHM entry fit within those taken by BSI]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: The inscription is carved on the mandorla around the figure of Christ in Majesty, basin side.

Inscription Text: "MAGNV : NOM[in]E : DOMINI : EMANVEL : AW [alpha-omega]" "+ MAGNV : NOME : DOMINI : EMANVE : A O + "

Inscription Source: BSI on-site -- SK: Gotland gives a slightly different transcription (Bd. III, p. 77). Also found in Gotländska stenmästare (1959: 50); SHM

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

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

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

Lindblom, Andreas, Gotländska stenmästare, Malmö: Allhems Förlag, 1959

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

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941

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

Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936

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

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