Saxtorp
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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation
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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing
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B03: Christ - Christ in Majesty - with scroll in left hand - right hand raised in benediction
Scene Description: one of several haloed figures on the basin
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B04: angel
Scene Description: at least two, winged and haloed
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LBS01: cleric - monk - bust - tonsured - orant pose
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LBS02: symbol - tree - Tree of life - fan shaped
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LBS03: symbol - sun - multi-rayed
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LBS04: Christ - Agnus Dei - by a fountain
Scene Description: the identification is helped by the cruciferous halo; otherwise a beaver building a dam?
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view of font
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view of font - southwest side
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view of font - west side
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view of font - north side
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view of font - east side
Scene Description: the Visitation on the left
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view of font - south side
Scene Description: the Visitation on the right
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view of font
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view of font
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: unfortunately the interior is full of...
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view of basin and baptismal dish - upper view
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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 - detail
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view of basin
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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design element - motifs - vine
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kristus"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "ängel"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gabriel (ur bebådelsescen)"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Maria (ur bebådelsescen)"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "visitatio"
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - pulpit
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view of chancel and east end
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of base - detail
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information
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information
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "fyrfoting med korsgloria (Agnus Dei ?)"
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "orant"
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00077SAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2002-06-22; 2024-07-10
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Soëst - Erwitte workshop / Mästaren från Soest [Rydbeck]
Church / Chapel Name: Saxtorps kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N side, E end
Church Address: Landskronavägen 371, 261 93 Saxtorp, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 418 45 62 66
Site Location: Skåne, Skåne län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the 104-110 crossroads, just SE of Häljarp, 6 km SE of Landskrona, 30 km N of Malmö N on the E6/E20.
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Malmöhus län
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated [drawing] in Brunius (1850) as a baptismal font of sandstone decorated with several scenes around the basin on a quadrangular base decorated with a human bust, an animal and two floral/foliage motifs on its sides. In Rydbeck (1936) as the work of the "Mästaren från Soest". Ljungman (1993: 17-20 and caption for fig.17) describes and illustrates the font at the parish church of Saxtorp as "the only one of its kind". The rounded basin shows several haloed figures depicted amidst foliage, one has a cruciferous nimbus and holds a scroll in his left hand while the right hand is raised in benediction, obviously Christ; there are at least two angels to his side; the lower edge of the basin has a thin rope motif. The square base "has on its foot the Lamb with a cross-halo, leading the way to 'the Fountains of Life'", a scene which Ljungman refers to an illustration of the Bamberg's Apocalypse (ibid., p. 18-19, fig. 18). Listed and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900618F3] [accessed 26 August 2024] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the 12th century: decorated with scenes of the Visitation, Annunciation, Christ and angels on the basin; the square base has a human bust orant and an Agnus Dei on its sides.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 372306 6190122
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 55.839722, 12.960833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 55° 50′ 23″ N, 12° 57′ 39″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Rim Thickness: 7-7.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 54.5-55 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 69 cm* / **
Basin Depth: 32-33 cm
Height of Base: 38 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm* / 93 cm**
Square Base Dimensions: 32 x 36 cm
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM
REFERENCES
- Brunius, Carl Georg, Skånes Konsthistoria från Medeltiden, Lund: Hos Förläggaren, 1850, p. 508 and pl. XII: 4
- 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. 16-19, fig. 17, 18
- Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984, p. 29ff, 86ff
- Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936, p. 144ff
- Statens Historiska Museum, Stocholm, Medeltidens bildvärld, 2003. URL: https://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/sok/avancerad.asp.
- Thümmler, Hans, "Die Soest-Erwitter romanische Bildhauer-Werkstatt und ihre Ausstrahlung nach Schonen", 40 (1971), Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1971, pp. 65-88; p. 65ff
- Thümmler, Hans, "Die Soest-Erwitter romanische Bildhauer-Werkstatt und ihre Ausstrahlung nach Schonen", 40 (1971), Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1971, pp. 65-88; p. 85, 87 and plate 29
- Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921, p. 48