Hog nr. Hudiksvall / Hög

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

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

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.

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

B03: animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: seen here in the right arch, very eroded: a four legged animal facing right, looking like a lion.

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

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?

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

B05: animal - mammal - lion - passant-regardant

Scene Description: passant to the right; the tail suggests a lion

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

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

Scene Description: very eroded, seen here in the left arch: two four legged animal, one upside down, back to back, both facing the right.

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

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

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.

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

B08: unidentified

Scene Description: totally eroded, this scene is not discernible

LBS01: symbol - the lion of Judah - Christ

Scene Description: the body of the lion seen here towards the right

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

LBS01: symbol - the lion of Judah - Christ

Scene Description: The first scene is the lion of Judah facing the right and with full frontal head - the head is haloed.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 April 1993 by BSI

LBS02: angel - archangel - St. Michael and dragon

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.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 April 1993 by BSI

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

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.

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

LBS04: angel - archangel - St. Michael and dragon

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.

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

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

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

design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 8

Scene Description: large ones in the wide spandrels

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

design element - motifs - roll moulding - vine

Scene Description: though much eroded and damaged now a well-rendered vine is still discernible here

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

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - with inserts

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

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "två änglar i strid med drake (Mikael?)"

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

Scene Description: Source caption: "två änglar i strid med drake (Mikael?)"

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mikael och draken"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "man som bär dödat lejon"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "lejon"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "grip"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "djurscen"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: between scenes: the coiled tailed of a dragon and a haloed slaying angel in profile; notice the rich long mantle

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 April 1993 by BSI

view of church exterior - bell-cote

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

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."

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

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."

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

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

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

Scene Description: Source caption: "Högs kyrka [...] Kyrkan från öster."

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

Scene Description: showing the medieval font in the southeast corner, by the psalm board

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

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

Image Source: digital image [4056-55.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Högs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200037521.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2021]

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view of font

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

Image Source: digital image [4056-56.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Högs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200037522.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2021]

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

Image Source: digital image [4056-57.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Högs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200037523.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2021]

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view of font

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

Image Source: digital image [4056-59.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Högs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200037525.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2021]

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view of font

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00142HOG

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: Click to view 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.; r["References"]

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; r["References"]

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; r["References"]