Gistad / Gista

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Christ child lying on the manger - Joseph seated in chair - censing angel - attendant seated at Mary's feet

Scene Description: Nativity. To the left, Joseph sits in profile, on a Gotland chair, he is bearded, the left side of his head rests on left hand, the right hand supports the left arm on his knee. To the right of Mary's bed, (an animal head on headboard of bed). She has three pillows, jewelled cover, her right hand rests outside of the cover. Above her and Joseph, an angel comes out of the cloud with a censor. There are no haloes on this font. To the right of Mary, a woman sits on a chair, Gotland chair, wears a head cover, the left hand holds left knee, the right hand palm down, supports or touches the craddle. Boat like shape for cradle, the baby is swaddled and lies to the left (head) - above the cradlle the ox and ass.

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

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi. The magi walk from left to right, in profile, crowned, only the first has a beard, all three three richly dressed with capes - all three hold up the gifts with the right hand - the fingers of the left hand are visible. To the right of the kings and facing them, Madonna and Child on Gotland chair, wears a rich cape, profile, holds child on her lap. The child 's left hand rests on his knee and the right hand is raised in benediction to the first king. A star above them.

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

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - journey of the Wise men - departing on horseback

Scene Description: Magi's Departure. On horseback, they hold the reins with the left hand and with the right holds their cloaks.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 1997 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: Dream of the Magi. The square bed is the scene. The kings are fully covered to their necks with only the crowned heads visible. No angels present

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

B05: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Volto Santo

Scene Description: Crucifixion. Christ on the cross, head hangs to the left, he is dressed like a Volto Santo, his feet are visible and separate and under each arm of the cross - two lambs are carved. To the left a woman long cape, head covered; left hand holds her head while right hand holds left elbow

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

B06: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: Baptism ritual. A priest, tonsured, in profile, stands to the left and holds a child by the shoulders in a font, both facing right. Above the right, the hand of God comes down in benediction.

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

Bo1: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Joseph sitting in a chair

Scene Description: Joseph sitting in a Gotland chair in his characteristic position; the zoomorphic pillar of the back-rest of Mary's bed appears to address Joseph

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

New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Annunciation to Joseph

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

New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - censer angel

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

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

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

animal - reptile - snake - head - 2

Scene Description: seen here beneath the arch-heads

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

church - ecclesiastic structure for base

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

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - decorated arches

Scene Description: two of them are visible here: the one on the left is decorated with a vine; the one on the right has beaaded-tape on it

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

design element - architectural - building - roof

Scene Description: one of them seen here above the two human heads

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

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: several broad mouldings decorate the 'legs' of the structure

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

design element - patterns - scalloped

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

human figure - head - 2

Scene Description: seen here in the centre of the image

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

symbol - wheat - sheaf - 2

Scene Description: seen here in the spandrels of the arcade

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

view of base

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

view of base

Scene Description: the building-shaped base is inhabited by all kinds of characters, motifs, patterns and even animals; notice the two reptilian heads oggling from the lower end, the different patterns on the arch-heads, etc.

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

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the Manus Dei at the top left probably belongs to the baptism scene; the censing angel belongs in the Nativity scene, as does dreaming Joseph and the zoomorphic head of Mary's bed

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

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the modern church replaced the old, originally Romanesque, one that was demolished in 1873

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2005 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gistads_kyrka_view1.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1864 drawing by Pehr Arvid Säve

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in "Utdrag af Antiqvitets-Intendenten P. A. Säves afgifna berättelse för år 1861", publicerad i Antiqvarisk tidskrift för Sverige band 1, 1864 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dopfunt,_Gista_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2[ [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920719F2] [accessed 7 April 2020]

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view of font

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00057GIS

Church/Chapel: Gistads kyrka

Church Location: Prästgård, 585 63 Linghem, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 13 23 66 50

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län

Directions to Site: Located off the E773, S of the E4, about halfway between Linköping [20 km to the W] and Norrköping, in the municipality of Linköping. The church is 3 km SE of Gistad itself

Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift

Historical Region: Skärkinds härad

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

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Calcarius

Church Notes: original church ca. 1100; it was demolished in 1873; the present church was built right after, in 1863-1864; restored 1925; the ancient font is well preserved.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Drake (2002: 183) as a baptismal font of the Calcarius workshop. Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920719F2] as a Calcarius font made of limestone in the early-13th century. Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003) as a baptismal font made of Gotland limestone. On-site notes: Romanesque font by the Calcarius master of Gotland. The font is in three pieces and there is no evidence of paint on it now. Both basin and base are well preserved. Plinth is shaped the same as the base - but carved in different stone. [cf. Iconography and Images for details of the ornamentation program]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.454444, 15.923889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 27′ 16″ N, 15° 55′ 26″ E

UTM: 33V 553916 6479677

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Gotland)

Number of Pieces: three

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

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 7 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm* / 60 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm* / 77 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 28 cm* / 29 cm**

Basin Total Height: 43 cm* / 40 cm**

Height of Base: 23 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 66 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 86 cm* / 84 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003)

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

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

Strömbom, Ragnhild, "Calcarius, en gotländsk stenhuggareverkstad under 1100-talets slut och 1200-talets förra hälft", XI-XIII (1942-1944), Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1942-1944

Ullén, Marian, Östergötlands medeltida dopfuntar, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet och författarna, 2003