Simris

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi. Moving from Left to Right. Three figures walking in profile, crowned, holding gifts. The first two are kneeling, resting their arm on knee. The last is unbearded, standing. The madonna and child to the right, enthroned, bench like throne, Mary not haloed, wraps the mantel around the child. Her right hand holds the child on her left side, hanging from her left wrist is a stole. Child in profile, right hand raised in benediction. Jesus is haloed with cross in haloe. To the right and behind, in the background a figure, probably female because of the headwear, stands in profile, hands in L-shape

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Christ washes the feet of apostles

Scene Description: Christ Washing the feet of the Apostles. To the left and kneeling Christ in profile, haloed. To the right a figure is sitting down, both feet in a chalice like bowl. The person wears fancy hair, enriched robe. (additonal figue seated on a chair - may belong to this scene, although, the blessing gesture signifies that he is probably part of the next scene the Last Supper.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Last Supper

Scene Description: Last Supper. Large table dominates the scene. There are seven apostles present with Christ in the middle, full frontal, haloed with cross. In his left hand he holds a loaf of bread, and in his right hand, he feeds Judah over the table who is kneeling in the foreground. On the table there are loaves of bread with crosses, chalices with fish on top of the cups. To the left and right of Christ, three apostles on each side. Their right hands raised with two fingers in benediction - the left hand holds either bread or drinking vessel.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

B04: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: Unknown scene with three figures. To the left, dressed as a priest(?), is being handed a round object (host) by the two figures on the right

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

B05: New Testament - public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness

Scene Description: Temptation of Christ. To the left Christ, sits in profile on rocks, haloed, crossed, right hand raised in benediction. To the right, in profile, a large devil.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

B06: New Testament - public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness

Scene Description: To the left, a large devil in profile, has tail, and claws, horns. To the right sits Jesus Christ, full front, haled, cross in haloe, right hand raised in benediction, left hand holds an open book.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

B07: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: Baptism of Christ. Christ immersed in water up to his waist, haloed, full frontal. To the left in profile, St.John dressed as a priest, one hand in the water, the other hand on Christ's head. To the right a figure, full frontal holds out a large towel.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

BU01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation

Scene Description: Annunciation fall under the temptation of Christ on the bowl. To the left an angel in profile, with right the right hand pointing to Mary, the left hand holds up a fleur-de-lis. Mary sits on a throne-like bench, full frontal, long braids to her waist in the front. Her right hand across the middle points to the next scene which is the Visitation. Above and between the two figures, a semi-circle containing the sun and the moon. On the edge of the throne, a bird in profile sits.To the right of Mary and above, a semi-circle, like a cloud, and a dove flies toward Mary.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

BU02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Scene Description: Visitation - moving from left to right. Two women embracing.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

BU03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Christ's first bath

Scene Description: Christ's first bath - in the centre a chalice like font, only the cross-haloed head of Christ is shown. To the left a female figure holds by the neck and to the right, a figure, standing full frontal holds a cloth-towel.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

BU04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity

Scene Description: Nativity. To the left, a bed with Mary, in profile, the left hand holds the left side of her head, the right hand lies on her abdomen. Behind Mary, to the left, sun or moon (?) or star? Directly behiind Mary a tower with peaked roof and knob on top. Above Mary's bed a rectangular cradle, child is swaddled, haloed, crossed and head to the left, above the cradle to the left the ox and mule. From the cradle rays project onto the Virgin's bed. After the bed, a star (round) with long rays (could be bedpost - but not connected to bed and very similar to the next representation of a star with rays). To the right of this is Joseph in profile, facing Mary, head resting on his right hand, and above him a cloud with an angel who has its head upside down.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

BU05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Joseph in a dream

Scene Description: Joseph seated in a pensive/dormant stance at the centre of the image, between tyhe Nativity (left) and the annunciation to the shepherds (right); an upside-down head leans to his right ear

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

BU06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to the shepherds

Scene Description: Annunciation to the Shepherds. One shepherd in profile, carries a staff, wears a hood, holds his right hand to his head, looks up at the star. The rays from the star are carved to shine directly on his face (!!!!!) NB. Two goats stand behind the shepherd. On the left of the scene, Joseph dreams...

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

BU07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents

Scene Description: Massacre of the Innocent. To the left, a figure, points up and left. The next figure to the right, sitting, full frontal, head turned toward the left, is crowned, the right hand holds a sword and the left raised with palm outward and thumb in.To the left of Herod, a soldier, holds a raised right hand with sword and the left holds an infant by the hair -- at the far right the two figures are part of the next scene: the martyrdom of Stephen

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

BU07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents - Herod gives orders

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

BU08: Apostle or saint - St. Stephen - martyrdom by stoning

Scene Description: Martyrdom of St.Stephen. To the left, two figures in profile, hands raised holding stones. To the right Stephen, haloed, kneeling, among a pile of stones, his hands raised to a circle cloud - where a face appears - there may have been wings there once

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

LBH01: animal - mammal - lion - head - with prey

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

LBH02: animal - mammal - lion - head - with prey - devouring a monster

Scene Description: Lion's head holding a beast in its mouth.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

LBH03: human figure - male - head - holding his moustache

Scene Description: on the right side of the image: Head of a Man, long haired, long mustache held by his hands.

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

LBH04: human figure - female - head - holding infant

Scene Description: Head of a Woman, bust of a woman wearing a conical hat, her body on base, holds a swaddled child to her chest - madonna and child? -- the head is part of the set of four at 90-degree angles, but the body, including the babe-jn-arms,is a low-relief carving on the main block of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

LBS01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - man - wearing tall hat

Scene Description: Man with a tall hat, holds the neck of a peacock or griffin?

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

LBS02: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: To the right, an altar, with a chalice on it. Above it an angel looks down with hands raised in benediction. To the left, two figures kneeling, in the background a woman with a hat and headdress, in the forefront a man in adoration (donors?)

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

LBS03: Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion

Scene Description: Human figure, male, bearded, long braided hair, riding a four-legged animal - Samson and the lion?

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

LBS03: symbol - knot

Scene Description: above the Samson and the lion scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

LBS04: unidentified

Scene Description: Two figures in profile, the one on the right holds with hands the hair and beard of the figure kneeling on the left. The left figure, holds a cane

Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

Scene Description: view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

view of baptismal dish - inscription

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Foto efter ritning av dopfunt. Efter Hilfelings manus i Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Köpenhamn." [NB: as noted on the Danish record shown below the engraving, the inscription is not on the font but on the baptismal dish].

Image Source: digital image [1526-45.TIF] of a B&W photograph of an illustration in the Hilfeling manuscript in the Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061493.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kain och Abel / hörnfigurer"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of base - details

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simson och lejonet / hörnfigurer"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, från 1150. Ornerat med djur och människofigurer, händelser hämtade från Jesu liv."

Image Source: digital image [1526-37.TIF] of a 1946 B&W photograph by Iwar Anderson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061484.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "nattvarden"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption; "heliga tre kungars tillbedjan"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption; "heliga tre kungars tillbedjan"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jesu dop"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jesus frestas"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jesus frestas"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "nattvarden"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "fott vagningen"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "nattvarden"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "fott vagningen"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "heliga tre kungars tillbedjan"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "heliga tre kungars tillbedjan"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "heliga tre kungars tillbedjan (Madonna)"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jesu dop"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jseu dop / Jesu bad" [NB: the collocation of these two scenes on the font by the Tryde master cannot be a coincidence]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jesus frestas"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jesus frestas"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Judas ånger"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the correspondance of scenes between basin side and underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the correspondance of scenes between basin side and underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the correspondance of scenes between basin side and underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the correspondance of scenes between the side and the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the correspondance of scenes between the side and the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the correspondance of scenes between the side and the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Adoration of the Magi

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Baptism of Christ

Scene Description: on the underbowl the First Bath of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Baptism of Christ, Adoration of the Magi

Scene Description: Baptism of Christ --> Adoration of the Magi

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Last Supper

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Last Supper

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Last Supper

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Temptation of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Temptation of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Temptation of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail - Temptation of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "bebådelsen"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "visitatio"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "Jesu födelse"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "Jesu bad"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "bebådelsen av herdarna"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "bebådelsen av herdarna"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "Herodes och barnamordet i Betlehem"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "Herodes och barnamordet i Betlehem"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stefanus stenas"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stefanus stenas"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] [accessed 30 July 2021]

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

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Annunciation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Annunciation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Annunciation to the Shepherds

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Chrit's First Bath

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Martyrdom of St. Stephen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Martyrdom of Stephen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Massacre of the Innocent

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Massacre of the Innocent

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Nativity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Nativity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Visitation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl - detail - Visitation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin and baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Detalj av dopfunt av sandsten, från 1150. Ornerat med djur och människofigurer, händelser hämtade från Jesu liv."

Image Source: digital image [1526-43.TIF] of an undated [ca. 1913?] B&W photograph by Lars Tynell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061490.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of basin and baptismal dish - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin and baptismal dish - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of canopy

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of canopy

Scene Description: 17thC?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Scene Description: Runic stones DR344 ["Danmarks runeindskrifter 344"] (left) and DR345 ["Danmarks runeindskrifter 345"] (right) DR245 (on the right of the image): Transliteration: "× sigrif¶r : let * resa * sten : þensa : aiftiR * forkun : if--r * faþur : osulfs : triks : knus ¶ * hilbi : kuþ : on : hans" Interpretation: "SigrefR let resa sten þænsa æftiR Forkun <if--r>,/æf[ti]R faþur Asulfs, drængs Knuts. Hialpi Guþ ond hans" Translation into Swedish: "Sigrev lät resa denna sten efter Forkunn .. Åsulfs fader, Knuts dräng. Gud hjälpe hans ande." source: Samnordisk runtextdatabas [www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm] reproduced in Wikipedia enry for Simrisstenen 1 [accessed 3 April 2016]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Scene Description: Runic stone DR344 ["Danmarks runeindskrifter 344"] Transliteration: "biarngaiR × lit (*) raisa * stain * þina * eftiR * rafn * broþur * sin * su(i)n * kun(u)--s * a suiþiuþu" Interpretation: "BiarngeR let resa sten þænna æftiR Rafn, broþur sin, swen Gunu[lf]s a Sweþiuþu." Translation into Swedish: "Björnger lät resa denna sten efter sin broder Ravn, sven hos Gunnulv i Svitjod." source: Samnordisk runtextdatabas [www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm] reproduced in Wikipedia enry for Simrisstenen 1 [accessed 3 April 2016]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst. Före ombyggnaden." [NB: the re-building took place in 1905, therefore this photograph was taken on or before that date]

Image Source: digital image [1526-1.TIF] of an undated [pre-1905?] B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061251.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - east side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Kyrkans torndel från sydöst. Rivning av långhuset." [NB: the photograph was probably taken during the re-building of 1905]

Image Source: digital image [1526-8.TIF] of an undated [1905?] B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061267.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior - tower - east side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Kyrkans torndel från nordöst. Rivning av långhuset." [NB: the photograph was probably taken during the re-building of 1905]

Image Source: digital image [1526-9.TIF] of an undated [1905?] B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061268.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church interior - chancel - ceiling - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen of Nordens kirker [www.nordenskirker.dk] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Simris07.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2014]

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view of church interior - west end

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, från 1150. Ornerat med djur och människofigurer, händelser hämtade från Jesu liv."

Image Source: digital image [1526-38.TIF] of an undated [ca. 1913?] B&W photograph by Lars Tynell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061485.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, från 1150. Ornerat med djur och människofigurer, händelser hämtade från Jesu liv."

Image Source: digital image [1526-39.TIF] of an undated [ca. 1913?] B&W photograph by Lars Tynell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061486.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, från 1150. Ornerat med djur och människofigurer, händelser hämtade från Jesu liv."

Image Source: digital image [1526-41.TIF] of an undated [ca. 1913?] B&W photograph by Lars Tynell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061488.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2023 by BSI

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Scene Description: showing the correspondance of scenes between basin side, underbowl and base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

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Image Source: digital image aof a photograph taken 23 June 1997 by BSI

view of font - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Detalj av dopfunt av sandsten, från 1150. Ornerat med djur och människofigurer, händelser hämtade från Jesu liv."

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view of font - detail - First Batch of Christ below the Baptism of Christ

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view of font - underbowl and base

Scene Description: showing the correspondance of scenes between underbowl and base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2002 by BSI

view of font and canopy

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simris kyrka [...] Foto efter ritning av dopfunt. Efter Hilfelings manus i Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Köpenhamn."

Image Source: digital image [1526-44.TIF] of a B&W photograph of an illustration in the Hilfeling manuscript in the Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simris_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061492.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00062SIM

Church/Chapel: Simris kyrka

Church Location: Simris bygata 7, 272 91 Simrishamn, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 414 129 88

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Skåne, Skåne län

Directions to Site: Located off the confluence of local roads M1501 and M1537, S of county road 9, in the municipality and 2 km SW of Simrishamn, on the shore of Östersjön

Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift

Historical Region: Järrestads härad, Simrishamns komun, Skåne län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W of the chancel, N side of the nave.

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Majestatis or Tryde master [Tynell, SHM, etc.]

Church Notes: 12thC church; re-built 1905

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Roosval (1918) and in Tynell (1913-1921) as a cylindrical mounted baptismal font of the Romanesque period, an import from the Gotland Majestatis workshop. Described and illustrated in Rydbeck (1936) in her section on the Tryde master. Described in Nordström (1984: 102) as having a "scene of the bathing of the Child Jesus [...] placed immediately below the scene of the baptism of Christ." Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1] as a 'Majestatis' baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century; traces of red paint under the later oil-based coating. On-site notes: the font is in excellent condition and has paint remains; there are scenes on the sides of the basin and on the underbowl, as well as in the spaces between the four heads on the base; one of these heads is a woman carrying an infant in her arms [cf. ImagesArea and FieldNotes for a full description of the programme on this font]. Canopy over the font has inscription in Swedish; 17th-century?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.535278, 14.321667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 32′ 7″ N, 14° 19′ 18″ E

UTM: 33U 457188 6154568

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: 8-10 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 50-51 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 67-70 cm* / 68 cm** / 70 cm***

Basin Depth: 31-32 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 32-33 cm*

Basin Total Height: 48-50 cm*

Height of Base: 41-42 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 90-92 cm* / 80 cm** / 87 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: measurements are a composite of several takings by BSI] / ** Tynell (1913-1921: 66) / *** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900710F1]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: canopy over the font; carved, painted, gilded and bearing an inscription [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Brunius, Carl Georg, Skånes Konsthistoria från Medeltiden, Lund: Hos Förläggaren, 1850

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

Ljungman, Ulrika, "Där ord blev sten: Delstudie av romanska dopfuntars ikongrafi", 1993, ICO – Iconographisk Post. Nordisk tidskrift för bildtolkning – Nordic Review of Iconography, 1993, pp. 1-20, 19 ill.; r["References"]

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

Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921