Munka-Ljungby

Results: 55 records

B01: Christ - Christ in Majesty

Christ enthroned. This is the central scene on the font and is framed by the three-arched arch on the fourth side of the font. Christ seated, holds an open book with his left hand and raises his right hand in benediction sign. To the left of his face is a 4-pointed star. To the right of him stands an angel holding a round container with a lid. (oil for baptism?) To the left of Christ is a second figure, haloed, holding a scroll (priest?). The corner columns on the font all have faces for capitals.

Scene Description: Christ enthroned. This is the central scene on the font and is framed by the three-arched arch on the fourth side of the font. Christ seated, holds an open book with his left hand and raises his right hand in benediction sign. To the left of his face is a 4-pointed star. To the right of him stands an angel holding a round container with a lid. (oil for baptism?) To the left of Christ is a second figure, haloed, holding a scroll (priest?). The corner columns on the font all have faces for capitals.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and chalice - with an angel

To the right of the main scene, there are two figures in arches. In the first, to the left, a figure, haloed, Saint Peter holds one key in the right hand and in the left hand holds a chalice shaped container or censor? There are three floating round dots carved in background. The next arch has an angel, right hand in benediction.

Scene Description: To the right of the main scene, there are two figures in arches. In the first, to the left, a figure, haloed, Saint Peter holds one key in the right hand and in the left hand holds a chalice shaped container or censor? There are three floating round dots carved in background. The next arch has an angel, right hand in benediction.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

B03: angel - holding book - cross - 2

Two arches, the one on the left, has an angel both wings showing, right hand raised and left hand holds a scroll. The figure on the right, another angel, one wing showing, holds a cross in his right hand, the left hand holds a book. A moon is carved above his wing.

Scene Description: Two arches, the one on the left, has an angel both wings showing, right hand raised and left hand holds a scroll. The figure on the right, another angel, one wing showing, holds a cross in his right hand, the left hand holds a book. A moon is carved above his wing.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

B04: angel - liturgical equipment - baptism - chrismon container

Scene Description: This side, has two arches, the first on the left, has an angel facing the right, in profile, the right hand holds a scroll, the left hand holds up an object - container with lid. Three floating objects - the stars? The next arch contains a figure , haloed and holding a container.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals

Scene Description: not all the arches have supporting columns, and not all the columns are similar

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals

Scene Description: not all the arches have supporting columns, and not all the columns are similar

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: several of them 'floating' around the figures on this side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: a variety of them in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: scalloped-shaped leaves decorat the lower part of the basin on all four sides

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of a text in a locally printed church guide (Trycktjänst, 1982)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image [1634-36.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph taken by Lars Tynell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_-_kmb.16000200059308.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Swden

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image [1634-37.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph taken by Lars Tynell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_-_kmb.16000200059309.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Majestas Domini och två oidentifierade gestalte"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Majestas Domini och två oidentifierade gestalte"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Majestas Domini"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "bebådelsen"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Petrus (?) / ängel"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Petrus (?) / ängel"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4]

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Petrus (?)"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4]

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

view of basin - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - south side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - south side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the interior and the centre drain hole

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - west side - detail

Scene Description: Annunciation? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - west side - detail

Scene Description: Annunciation? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2008 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_ext05.jpg]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2008 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_ext07.jpg]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2008 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_ext08.jpg]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0

view of church interior - baptismal dish - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - east end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - east end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2016 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_int08.jpg]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt av sandsten. Fyrkantig form. Tillverkad före 1250."

Image Source: digital image [1634-38.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph taken by Otto Rydbeck, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200059310.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2016 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_dopfunt01.jpg]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2016 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_dopfunt02.jpg]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2016 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_dopfunt03.jpg]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4]

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

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 June 1997 by BSI

view of font - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of font - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the east emd of the nave, north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2008 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munka-Ljungby_kyrka_int01.jpg]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00085MUN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Munka-Ljungby kyrka

Church Location: 266 33 Munka-Ljungby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 431 44 38 30

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Skåne, Skåne län

Directions to Site: Located off road 13, E of highway E6, 7 km E of Ängelholm and in its municipality, 25 km NE of Helsingborg

Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift

Historical Region: Norra Åsbo härad

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

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mörarps workshop / Mörarpsgruppen / Össjögruppen [Tynell]

Cognate Fonts: other such in this group [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: original church probably late-12thC, dependant on the monastery of Herrevad; present church is a later building [15thC?], with three aisles, and round apse which has been converted into a the priest's office.(very strange); much modified in the 19th and 20thC.

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted and illustrated in Tynell (1913-1921) as an 'Össjögruppen' font of sandstone, somewhat similar to the font at Mörarp. Baptismal font noted and illustrated in Rydbeck (1936) in her section on the Mörarpsgruppen of fonts. Noted and illustrated in Trotzig (1989). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4] as a sandstone font of the Mörarpsgruppen made in the late 12th century; this source identifies an Annunciation scene on it. On-site notes: the font is in excellent condition; it consists of two pieces, plus a modern plinth; an arcade with round arches on the sides, 3 on the south side, 2 on each of the other sides; the arches are populated with figures: a Majestas Domini, Annunciation, St Peter, Angel, etc. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.26, 12.974167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 15′ 36″ N, 12° 58′ 27″ E

UTM: 33V 374513 6236863

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone [Höör sandstone]

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 4-17 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 45 x 47 cm* (square)

Diameter (includes rim): N.A

Basin Depth: 28 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 47 cm*

Basin Total Height: 47 cm*

Height of Base: 31-33 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm* / 79 cm***

Font Height (with Plinth): 93-94 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 44.5 x 43 cm* (top) and 33 x 35-36 cm (bottom)

Trapezoidal Basin: 54 x 57 cm (top) 41 x 38 cm* (bottom) / 56 x 56**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Tynel (191301921) / *** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F4] gives 57 cm for the side of the basin top

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: on the open book held by Christ

Inscription Text: ”EGO SUM α ET ω”

REFERENCES

Berland, J., "Une ancienne mesure à grains de la Commanderie de La Neuvile-au-Temple. Notes sur différentes mesures employées au XVIII' siècle dans l'etendue de la seigneurie", 1913, pp. 3-31; 900506F4

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

Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936

Trotzig, Aina, "Mörarpsgruppen. Några romanska dopfuntar i nordvästra Skåne", 18, Kring Kärnan, 1989, pp. 19-43; p. 19ff

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