Selanger / Selånger

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Apostle or saint - St. Martin - on horseback - sharing his cape - detail

Scene Description: the horse and the saint are partially visible in this image

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900921F1] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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Apostle or saint - St. Martin - on horseback - sharing his cape - detail

Scene Description: the horse is not visible in this image but the saint, the big sword and the beggar are, partially

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 1997 by BSI

New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Scene Description: only some fragments remain now

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 1997 by BSI

New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Scene Description: partial view here: Christ on the left, wearing a cruciferous halo and carrying a cross in his right hand, while he pulls Adam with his left; Eve's arm in the fragment behind Adam

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 1997 by BSI

New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Scene Description: Adam's feet above an ugly devil lying supine

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 1997 by BSI

animal - unidentified - head - 4

Scene Description: these three, if not all, are animal heads; at 90-degree angles on the upper base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope - ring

Scene Description: a rope (?) zig-zags through round links of chain that are carved on the lower sides

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 1997 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed?

Scene Description: only a small fragment remains now, and it suggets ribbing

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 1997 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: and the baptismal dish now in use

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2015 by Henrik Sendelbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selångers_kyrka_interior_006.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: drawing of the ruins of the old church in 1760

Image Source: digital image of a [ca. 1760?] drawing in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [ref.: 9913-1.TIF] [http://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200044500] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the ruins of the old church ca. 1928-1929

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1928-1929, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [ref.: 9913-033.TIF] [http://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200044604] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the ruins of the old church in 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2015 by Henrik Sendelbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selångers_kyrkoruin_007.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Runsten vid kyrkoruinen [...] Selångersstenen (M 10) med Selångers kyrkoruin i bakgrunden."

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 June 1999 by Bengt A Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selångers_kyrkoruin_03.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: the 'Selångerstenen' in the ruins of the old parish church at Selånger -- Noted in the Riksantikvarieämbetet [RAÄ-nummer Selånger 86:2] [ref.: 10248700860002]: "Inskrift på N sidan bestående av en ställvisdubbel slinga med inskriften: Une, Karl(?) och Ane reste dennasten efter [N,N fader?) sin. Avritad efter Medelpads runstenarefter foto från 1937."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2015 by Henrik Sendelbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selångersstenen_002.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: the modern church at Selånger

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 September 2015 by Henrik Sendelbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selångers_kyrka_009.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the modern church at Selånger

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2015 by Henrik Sendelbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selångers_kyrka_003.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: [NB: the photograph probably dates from before 1928, the time when the fragments of the old font were discovered in the churchyard and reconstructed into the present font]

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB_-_16000200045185] [accessed 1 January 2018]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 1997 by BSI

view of font - base

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfuntfot i kalksten, sirat med mänskliga huvuden och bitande ormar. Från 1200-talets mitt." -- notice the centre drain hole at the top

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1912, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB_-_16000200045227] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the pulpit is behind the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2010 by Hans Lindqvist [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selångers_kyrka_02.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Reine Axel Unnerbäck, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB_-_16000200045214] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of fragment

Scene Description: the fragments believed to have been part of the medieval font of Selånger old parish church; not all of them were used in the final reconstruction

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB_-_16000200045242] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of fragment

Scene Description: these two fragments were believed to have been part of the medieval font of Selånger old parish church; these two were not used in the final reconstruction -- the top fragment has a partial view of Christ nimbed head, a hand (?) holding a palm (?), and a radiated shape on the left -- the bottom fragment has the head of a mitred bishop with his baculum behind

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1957, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB_-_16000200045233] [accessed 1 January 2018]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

INFORMATION

FontID: 00161SEL

Church/Chapel: Selångers [nya] kyrka [originally from the medieval church now in ruins]

Church Location: Kungsnäs 190, Selånger, 855 90 Sundsvall, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Medelpad, Västernorrland

Directions to Site: Located off (W) highway 86, just WNW of Sundsvall

Ecclesiastic Region: Härnösands stift

Historical Region: Medelpad, Västernorrlands län

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, in the nave, E end, N side, by the pulpit

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Calcarius

Church Notes: The old church dates from ca. 1200; the new church was built in the late 18thC and restored in 1904.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad (Bd. I, hft. 2: 281, 283) as the limestone base of a baptismal font from the Majestatis workshop of Gotland; the conical pedestal has four protruding heads on it, typical of the Majestatis fonts. Circa 1928 three fragments were discovered in the garden, built into the old church wall; these fragments can be discerned as having a representation of St. Martin on horseback, as well as the head of a bishop and part of his crozier [NB: the printed church guide by Åke Hanaeus [cf. BSI print files] appears to suggest this may have been Thomas Beckett; the fragment was not included in the final reconstruction of the font]. It is dated to the mid 13th century. In Nordström (1984). In I. Pegelow's Sank Martin (1988: 61, 234). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900921F1] as an early 13th-century baptismal font of limestone by master Calcarius of Gotland: "av cuppan återstår endast fragment, som infogats i rekonstruktion av cement; bevarade delar vittrade [...] den vittrade ytan har inte bevarat några färgspår [...] * botten igensatt med cement". On-site notes: the baptismal font has been reconstructed as a plain basin to which the fragments have been attached in the proper (?) position; one scene can be identified from the surviving fragments: the Harrowing of Hell, in which a haloed Christ carrying a cross pulls Adam by his arm out of Hell, with only a partial view of Eve behind, and an ugly devil below Adam's feet; to the left of this scene a sword-wielding human figure faces right, probably the scene identified by one source [cf. supra] as St. Martin; a small fragment of decoratived pattern on the underbowl remains, and it suggests ribbing; the base is made of a grey limestone and is very worn; the top is pinkish in colour.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 62.408361, 17.207306

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 62° 24′ 30.1″ N, 17° 12′ 26.3″ E

UTM: 33V 614046 6921621

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: 3/4?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 9-10 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 35.5 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50 cm*

Height of Base: 48 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 117 cm* / 107 cm****

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900921F1] [measurements of the reconstructed font]

REFERENCES

Cornell, Henrik, Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad, Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, 1929-1939

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