Hog nr. Hudiksvall / Hög

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Results: 39 records

B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dog on back - fighting

probably a hunting scene: a four legged animal, with another four legged animal standing on top of it, biting its neck. The larger, animal, is a stag, the animal on top faces the right. Under the stag is probably a dog biting the hind leg of the stag.
Scene Description: probably a hunting scene: a four legged animal, with another four legged animal standing on top of it, biting its neck. The larger, animal, is a stag, the animal on top faces the right. Under the stag is probably a dog biting the hind leg of the stag.

B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - passant

In the next arch, moving from the right to the left; seen here in the left arch is a four legged animal with wings, head faces the right, appears to have feathers.
Scene Description: In the next arch, moving from the right to the left; seen here in the left arch is a four legged animal with wings, head faces the right, appears to have feathers.
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

B03: animal - mammal - lion - passant

seen here in the right arch, very eroded: a four legged animal facing right, looking like a lion.
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch, very eroded: a four legged animal facing right, looking like a lion.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

B04: Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion

seen here in the left arch: a man in profile, walking toward the right, the right hand holds an upside down lion over his shoulder - Samson?
Scene Description: seen here in the left arch: a man in profile, walking toward the right, the right hand holds an upside down lion over his shoulder - Samson?
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

B05: animal - mammal - lion - passant-regardant

passant to the right; the tail suggests a lion
Scene Description: passant to the right; the tail suggests a lion
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

B06: animal - mammal - quadruped - 2 - 1 upside down

very eroded, seen here in the left arch: two four legged animal, one upside down, back to back, both facing the right.
Scene Description: very eroded, seen here in the left arch: two four legged animal, one upside down, back to back, both facing the right.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

B07: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dog on back - fighting

very eroded, seen here in the right arch: two four legged animals, one on top of the other, the top biting the lower neck of the other.
Scene Description: very eroded, seen here in the right arch: two four legged animals, one on top of the other, the top biting the lower neck of the other.
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

B08: unidentified

totally eroded, this scene is not discernible
Scene Description: totally eroded, this scene is not discernible

LBS01: symbol - the lion of Judah - Christ

the body of the lion seen here towards the right
Scene Description: the body of the lion seen here towards the right
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

LBS01: symbol - the lion of Judah - Christ

The first scene is the lion of Judah facing the right and with full frontal head - the head is haloed.
Scene Description: The first scene is the lion of Judah facing the right and with full frontal head - the head is haloed.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 April 1993 by BSI

LBS02: angel - archangel - St. Michael and dragon

Moving from right to left. Two angels in profile, wings showing, holding lances in right hands which pearce the mouth of the a dragon which faces right and has two coils on his tail. The left hands of both angels wrap their cloaks about themselves.
Scene Description: Moving from right to left. Two angels in profile, wings showing, holding lances in right hands which pearce the mouth of the a dragon which faces right and has two coils on his tail. The left hands of both angels wrap their cloaks about themselves.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 April 1993 by BSI

LBS03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - mountain

Next scene is a dragon with his tail up against the background of a mountain - in the same scene as the Lion of Judah.
Scene Description: Next scene is a dragon with his tail up against the background of a mountain - in the same scene as the Lion of Judah.
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

LBS04: angel - archangel - St. Michael and dragon

Next scene might show Christ as soldier - this figure has wings, therefore not Christ - but an angel. The figure faces full frontal and has wings fully opened and stands on the of a dragon whose head has just been severed and lies to the left. The right hand of the soldier holds the sword upward and the left hand holds a scabbard pointed downward. The dragon is similar to the previous scene. Apocalypse.
Scene Description: Next scene might show Christ as soldier - this figure has wings, therefore not Christ - but an angel. The figure faces full frontal and has wings fully opened and stands on the of a dragon whose head has just been severed and lies to the left. The right hand of the soldier holds the sword upward and the left hand holds a scabbard pointed downward. The dragon is similar to the previous scene. Apocalypse.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - 8

on the better preserved side of the basin; as usual in Sighraf's works, very short shafts allowing for wide and beautiful spandrel decoration
Scene Description: on the better preserved side of the basin; as usual in Sighraf's works, very short shafts allowing for wide and beautiful spandrel decoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 8

large ones in the wide spandrels
Scene Description: large ones in the wide spandrels
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding - vine

though much eroded and damaged now a well-rendered vine is still discernible here
Scene Description: though much eroded and damaged now a well-rendered vine is still discernible here
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - with inserts

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

information

view of base - detail

Source caption: "två änglar i strid med drake (Mikael?)"
Scene Description: Source caption: "två änglar i strid med drake (Mikael?)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900923F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900923F1#] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of base - detail

Source caption: "två änglar i strid med drake (Mikael?)"
Scene Description: Source caption: "två änglar i strid med drake (Mikael?)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900923F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900923F1#] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of base - detail

Source caption: "Mikael och draken"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mikael och draken"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900923F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900923F1#] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of basin - detail

Source caption: "man som bär dödat lejon"
Scene Description: Source caption: "man som bär dödat lejon"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900923F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900923F1#] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of basin - detail

Source caption: "lejon"
Scene Description: Source caption: "lejon"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900923F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900923F1#] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of basin - detail

Source caption: "grip"
Scene Description: Source caption: "grip"
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view of basin - detail

Source caption: "djurscen"
Scene Description: Source caption: "djurscen"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900923F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900923F1#] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of basin - detail

between scenes: the coiled tailed of a dragon and a haloed slaying angel in profile; notice the rich long mantle
Scene Description: between scenes: the coiled tailed of a dragon and a haloed slaying angel in profile; notice the rich long mantle
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 April 1993 by BSI

view of church exterior - bell-cote

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2006 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hogs_kyrka_bell_tower.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - Runic stone

Source caption: "Högs kyrka, Hudiksvall. Rune stone Hs 12." -- "This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number 10241500470001 in the RAÄ Fornsök database."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Högs kyrka, Hudiksvall. Rune stone Hs 12." -- "This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number 10241500470001 in the RAÄ Fornsök database."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2006 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hogs_kyrka_runestone01.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - Runic stone

Source caption: "Högs kyrka, Hudiksvall. Rune stone Hs 11." -- "This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number 10241500470002 in the RAÄ Fornsök database."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Högs kyrka, Hudiksvall. Rune stone Hs 11." -- "This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number 10241500470002 in the RAÄ Fornsök database."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2006 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hogs_kyrka_runestone02.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2006 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hogs_kyrka_view02.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2016]
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view of church exterior in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arild Vågen, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Arild Vågen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Högs_kyrka_July_2014_02.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - east view

Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Kyrkan från öster."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Kyrkan från öster."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [4056-5.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Jelmer Persson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Högs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200037471.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east

showing the medieval font in the southeast corner, by the psalm board
Scene Description: showing the medieval font in the southeast corner, by the psalm board
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Image Source: digital image [4056-52.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Högs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200037518.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2021]
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view of font

Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
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view of font

Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
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view of font

Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
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view of font

Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900923F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900923F1#] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00142HOG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Högs kyrka
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: 824 92 Hög, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Hälsingland, Gävleborgs län
Directions to Site: Located off road X-745, W of the E4, 7-8 km WNW of Hudiksvall
Ecclesiastic Region: Uppsala Stift
Historical Region: Hudiksvalls kn, Gävleborgs län
Font Location in Church: Inside the later church, at the E end, S side of the apse
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Byzantios? / Sighraf?
Cognate Fonts: Grotlingbo (for the base)
Church Notes: beautiful small ca.1190 church with many unusual works; there is a 15thC altar piece with an unusual representation of the Holy Trinity; a large statue of St. Lars stands on the wall.
Font Notes:
Noted in Cornell (1918), Roosval (1918 and 1918) and Svanberg (1980). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900923F1] as a composite baptismal font made of sandstone in the last quarter of the 12th century; the surface of the basin is very eroded and some of the scenes are very diffcult to discern; earlier attributions of the basin to master Byzantios master and the base by Sighraf are questionable. On-site notes: the font is in poor condition. Traces of red paint inside the bowl. Four holes in the top part of the rim, now filled with wooden plugs, probably held a lid once. The basin has a number of animal scenes, both hunting and zoomachia, not always clear as to the identity of the animals: a dog and stag (?); a griffin, a lion, Samson and a lion, man and lion, lion and donkey (?) (cf. Svanberg (1918) for some of the identifications). The base -which was probably made by the same workshop or master as the one at Grotlingbo- has a confrontation betwewen a lion and a dragon, St. Michael triumph over the dragon and a haloed dragon which probably represents the lion of Judah and is a symbol of Christ (cf. also Svanberg, op. cit.)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 61.766383, 17.039322
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 61° 45′ 58.98″ N, 17° 2′ 21.56″ E
UTM: 33V 607619 6849843

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 6-7.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70-71 cm* / 70 cm**
Height of Basin Side: 28 cm*
Basin Total Height: 44 cm*
Height of Base: 41 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900923F1]

REFERENCES

Cornell, Henrik, Norrlands Kyrkliga Konst under Medeltiden, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells Bocktryckeri A.-B., 1918
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. 5
Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984
Roosval, Johnny, "Swedish and English fonts", 32, 180 (March 1918), The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, 1918, pp. 85-94; p. 169
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
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. 16-27