Kropp No. 1
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Results: 56 records
B01: sacrament - baptism - Godmother holds infant over font - priest in attendance
Scene Description: Baptism scene: a woman (the god-mother?) holds an infant over the font; opposite her a priest wearing a stole holds a book -- otherwise identified as the Presentation to the Temple or the Circumcision
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B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation
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B03: angel - archangel - St. Michael and dragon - woman or angel beside
Scene Description: St. Michael fights the dragon; on the right arch a winged figure, woman or angel
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B04: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam and Eve
Scene Description: identified in one source as the Annunciation
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BF01: cleric - priest - giving sign of benediction with left hand
Scene Description: Priest or bishop with raised left hand raised in benediction (unusual and unorthodox, even for a left-handed cleric)
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BF02: Apostle or saint - male - holding sword - St. Paul?
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BF03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter? - holding 2 keys
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BF04: cleric - priest - holding book - giving sign of benediction
Scene Description: Figure holding book and giving benediction sign
view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "formen ansluter i stora drag till Mörarpsgruppens funtar, men motiv och figurframställningar har en helt annan"
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "formen ansluter i stora drag till Mörarpsgruppens funtar, men motiv och figurframställningar har en helt annan"
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "formen ansluter i stora drag till Mörarpsgruppens funtar, men motiv och figurframställningar har en helt annan"
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tynell (1913-1921: pl. XXXV: 1)
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view of basin
Scene Description: L->R: St. Peter -> Temptation and Fall
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view of basin
Scene Description: L->R: St. Paul? -> St. Michael slaying the dragon and unkown figure in the right arch -> St. Peter
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view of basin
Scene Description: L->R: left-handed cleric -> Flagellation scene -> St. Paul?
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
Scene Description: three sides have centre supporting arches; the Flagellation side has torsade arches and columns; some arches have a foliated lining or intrados; the base of the column on the Flagellation side resembles a vase with an acanthus plant
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view of basin
Scene Description: L->R: cleric -> Baptism (?) scene -> left-handed cleric
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - upper view
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view of basin - upper view
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mikael och draken"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mikael och draken"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "gisslandet"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "gisslandet"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "scen med två gestalter (syndafallet?)"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "vad som nedan anges som "dopscen" har också tolkats som "frambärandet i templet"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "vad som nedan anges som "dopscen" har också tolkats som "frambärandet i templet"
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view of basin - side
Scene Description: the scene has been identified in different sources as: Baptism / Presentation at the Temple / Circumcision
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tynell (1913-1921: pl. XXXV: 4)
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view of basin - side
Scene Description: the figure in the right arch, also winged has not been identified in any source found
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view of basin - side
![the two facing figures are naked [but for the fig leaves?] and stand in the traditional stance of Adam (left) and Eve (right) about to succumb to to temptation](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040104007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the two facing figures are naked [but for the fig leaves?] and stand in the traditional stance of Adam (left) and Eve (right) about to succumb to to temptation
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view of basin - side
Scene Description: the Flagellation of Christ; Christ on the right, haled, tethered to the column
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2011 by Jorchr [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kropps_kyrka_2.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2014]
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view of church interior - pulpit
Scene Description: Source caption: "Läktarpredikstol från 1616 i Kropps kyrka"
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2009 by Ulca08 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laktare_kropp.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2014]
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information
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information
Scene Description: museum label
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Scene Description: Source caption; "hörnfigur med bok"
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Scene Description: Source caption; "hörnfigur"
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Scene Description: Source caption; "hörnfigur"
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Scene Description: Source caption; "hörnfigur med svärd (Paulus?)"
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Scene Description: Source caption: "hörnfigur med nyckel (Petrus?)"
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00076KRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1997-06-24; 2024-07-07
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ösjögruppen / by Kropp workshop / Mörarpsgruppen [Rydbeck] / by Tove master [Carlsson]
Cognate Fonts: Gumlösa? / Bjäresjö? / Mörarp?
Museum: Lunds universitets historiska museum, LUHM32392
Church / Chapel Name: Kropps Kyrka
Font Location in Church: [now in a museum]
Church Notes: original church probably late-12thC or early-13thC; tower added later; modified 15th, 18th, 19thC; badly damaged by fire in 1931;
Church Address: Kropps kyrkväg 36, 253 55 Mörarp, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 42 36 12 60
Site Location: Skåne, Skåne län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off local road M1383 [aka Kropps kyrkväg], SE of the E4-E6 crossroads, in the municipality and 7 km ENE of Helsingborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Luggude häarad, Helsingborgs kn, Skåne län
Additional Comments: damaged font / disused font (sold to a museum)
Font Notes:
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The medieval font here is described and illustrated in Tynell (1913-1921: 10-11 and pl. XXXV: 1-4): medieval baptismal font of the Ösjö group; quadrangular basin with corner figures and scenes on the side panels [Tynell gives the location as "Lunds univ. hist. museum" already ca. 1913]. Described and illustrated in Rydbeck (1936) in her section on the Mörarpsgruppen fonts. Nordström (1984: 51, 54) identifies St. Michael's fight with the dragon; he also suggests (ibid., p. 110) a possible Presentation at the church, a Fall of Man (ibid., p. 126), and argues against Tynell's identification of a baptism scene: "in my opinion more likely the circumcision or presentation of Christ" (ibid. 163 fn19). Drake (2002: 148, 184) suggests an identification of the corner figures as: St. Peter, possibly St. Paul, and two putative bishops; for the panels Drake (ibid.) suggests the Annunciation, the Fall, St. Michael killing the dragon and an added figure reaching in, and the Presentation ro the church. Drake (ibid. p. 148 fn 89) quotes M. Rydbeck (1936: 385) as making the font at Kropp the oldest of this group [ca. 1150] and a model for the others. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900509F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the first half of the 12th century; the SHM entry notes that its overall design is reminiscent of the one seen on 'Mörarpsgruppen' fonts, but the motifs and figural representation is totally different and more archaic; also that the scene described in the SHM entry as 'baptismal' has otherwise been interpreted as the Presentation in the temple'; the SHM entry reports the font at the Lunds universitets historiska museum. On-site notes: Romanesque font with trapezoidal basin and base, now [June 1997] located in the Lunds universitets historiska museum [NB: apparently the font was sold to the University in the past]. The basin has four sides and four protruding figures, one at each angle. The scenes on the sides appear to be: 1)baptism: a woman holds an infant over a font while a priest stands opposite holding a book and wearing a stole; 2)the Flagellation of Christ; 3)St. Michael fighting the dragon, and what appears to be a winged woman or angel in the adjacent arch; 4)two human figures in adajacent arches; they both appear to be naked, and may be a Fall of Man scene [NB: this is the most damaged/eroded side of the font]. The corner figures are: i)cleric/bishop/priest giving benediction; ii)saintly figure with sword; St. Paul?; iii)saintly figure with keys; St. Peter?; iv)second cleric/bishop/priest giving benediction. Carlsson (1976: 126) mentions the lion (?) heads with snakes/dragons in their jaws on the base, and describes this font as being from the Tove master's workshop. The present font in this church is from 1666, made of wood; it supports a brass baptismal dish of the 16th century; there is also a baptismal (?) bowl made of silver in 1727. The Museum has a 3D model created by Sebastiaan van der Gaag & Sjoerd van Riel. on Sketchfab [www.historiskamuseet.lu.se/article/3d-modeller-av-foremal-i-museet] [accessed 10 December 2016] -- view it in https://sketchfab.com/models/ef765dd8eaff484db2dcb3220150e3f9 [accessed 10 December 2016]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Lunds universitets historiska museum staff for their assistance in the documentation of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 362954 6217836
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.085986, 12.797528
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 5′ 9.55″ N, 12° 47′ 51.1″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 6-7.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 44 x 45 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 40 cm*
Basin Total Height: 48-50 cm*
Height of Base: 34-35 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 83 cm* / 86 cm** / 84 cm***
Square Base Dimensions: 55 x 55 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 59 x 60 / 74 x 75 cm* / 63 cm***
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Tynell (1913-1921: 73) / *** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900509F1]
REFERENCES
- Källström, Olle, Altare och funt, Stockholm: Svenska kyrkans diakonistyrelses bokförlag, 1948, pl. 85
- 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.; p.2-3, fig. 2-3
- Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984, p. 51, 54, 110, 126, 163 fn19
- Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936, p. 298ff and figs. 289, 290
- Statens Historiska Museum, Stocholm, Medeltidens bildvärld, 2003. URL: https://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/sok/avancerad.asp.
- Svanberg, Jan, "Kampen mellan ont och gott på dopfunten I Hög", 1 (1980), ICO – Iconographisk Post. Nordisk tidskrift för bildtolkning – Nordic Review of Iconography, 1980, pp. 16-30, 14 fig. English summary; p. 20
- Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921, p. 3, 73, 123, 128, 138, 150, 162, 164, 169, 176, 182 and pl. XXXV: 1-4