Locknevi

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Christ's first bath

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

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

Scene Description: the three Magi carrying gifts walk towards the Madonna and Child on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

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

Scene Description: Madonna and Child full front, with the first two Magi in profile; to the right is part of the next scene, the Dream of the Magi

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

B06: 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

B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - journey of the Wise men - departing on horseback

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

LBF01: Old Testament - Abraham as father of all believers

Scene Description: he is located directly beneath the Dream of the Magi

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

LBF02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys

Scene Description: much damaged now, but the two keys are still discernible -- located directly beneath the departing Magi scene on the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910611F2&g=1] [accessed 25 December 2014]

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LBF03: cleric - bishop - with book

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

LBF04: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Annunciation and Visitation

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Nativity and First Bath

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Departure of the Magi

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Departure of the Magi; detail

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Dream of the Magi

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn [www.kyrkokartan.se/056011/images/56011_83489887] [accessed 25 December 2014]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W postcard in the Riksantikvarieämbetet [http://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200084774] [accessed 25 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn [www.kyrkokartan.se/056011/images/56011_83489887] [accessed 25 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn [www.kyrkokartan.se/056011/images/56011_83489887] [accessed 25 December 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910611F2&g=1] [accessed 25 December 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1990 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Borg (2002)

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the side facing west, showing a partial view of the Adoration of the Magi on the left, and the Dream of the Magi on the right

Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn [www.kyrkokartan.se/056011/images/56011_83489887] [accessed 25 December 2014]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 00049LOC

Church/Chapel: Locknevi kyrka

Church Location: Locknevi Församling 150, 598 94 Vimmerby, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Småland, Kalmar län

Directions to Site: Located N of highway 40, E of 23, in the municipality and about 20 km NE of Vimmerby

Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift

Historical Region: Södra Tjusts härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, S side

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sighraf / Sighrafr / Sigraf

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Roosval (1925) gives date 1177-188. Noted in Blomqvist (1929) with date in the early-13th century. Studied and illustrated in Swartling (1971), with attribution to Sighraf. Noted in Nordström (1984). Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) with date ca. 1180. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910611F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the last quarter of the 12th century, the base vandalised with heads broken off. On-site notes: chalice-shaped baptismal font of the Sighraf workshop; the basin is cylindrical and ornamented with scenes from the Childhood of Christ: Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Christ's first bath, Adoration of the Magi, Dream of the Magi, departure of the Magi; the underbowl is plain, as are the sides of the base between the damaged corner figures of the base [NB: it is not clear that they were so originally; may just have been eroded or erased]. There is an inscription on the upper rim; now unreadable. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.7976, 16.079714

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 47′ 51.36″ N, 16° 4′ 46.97″ E

UTM: 33V 564179 6406688

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Gotland's)

Number of Pieces: two

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

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm***

Diameter (inside rim): 63 cm* / ***

Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm* / ** / 78 cm***

Basin Depth: 42 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 34 cm*

Basin Total Height: 51 cm*

Height of Base: 27 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm* / ** / ***

Square Base Dimensions: 47 x 48 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910611F2] / *** BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: upper rim

Inscription Text: [unreadable]

REFERENCES

Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929

Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002

Eriksson, Torkel, ""Kristi forsta dop": Nordiska transformationer av ett bysantinskt delmotiv", Kristusfremstillinger: foredrag holdt ved det 5 nordiske symposium for ikonografiske studier pa Fuglsang 29 aug. - 3 sept. 1976., 1980

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984

Roosval, Johnny, "Revision av Gotländska dateringar II", 1925, Fornvännen: tidskrift för Svensk antikvarisk forskning, 1925, pp. 295-308; r["References"]

Svanberg, Jan, "Stenskulpturen", Den Romanska Konsten, Lund: Bokförlaget Signum, 1995

Swartling, Ingrid, "En Sighraf-funt i Locknevi kyrka", year 1971, Fornvännen. Tidskrift for Svensk Antikvarisk Forskning, 1971