Sanga / Sånga
Results: 36 records
B01: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
Scene Description: Moving from Left to Right, four legged animal facing left, entwined with vegetation
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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B02: animal - bird - eagle?
![Winged animal, on its back, wings and legs upward. Eagle? [seen here on the right side of the image]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200224023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Winged animal, on its back, wings and legs upward. Eagle? [seen here on the right side of the image]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3529-246.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1956 by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131788.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - upside down
Scene Description: Upside-down griffin?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - rider
![a man riding a griffin [seen here on the right side of the image]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/SAN9734022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a man riding a griffin [seen here on the right side of the image]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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B05: animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified
![Winged creature - facing the left, legs straight and head bent down biting the frame. The frame has a life of its own - vegetation [seen here on the left side of the image -- NB: the original KMB image has been flipped horizontally to match the one in Sveriges kyrkor [cf. FontNotes]]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200224025_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Winged creature - facing the left, legs straight and head bent down biting the frame. The frame has a life of its own - vegetation [seen here on the left side of the image -- NB: the original KMB image has been flipped horizontally to match the one in Sveriges kyrkor [cf. FontNotes]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3529-248.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1956 by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131790.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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B06: animal - mammal - stag
Scene Description: Four legged creature, stag, doe? Facing the left - head thrown back and up - figures shoot out from arches and frames. [seen here on the rightt side of the image -- NB: the original KMB image has been flipped horizontally to match the one in Sveriges kyrkor [cf. FontNotes]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3529-248.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1956 by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131790.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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B07: animal - bird - eagle - 2
Scene Description: Two eagle like figures facing each other - mirror images - see reproductions of this type of motif on early or oriental textiles - seems to have influenced the design of this font.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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BU01: animal - mammal - quadruped - horned - 2 - one on top of the other
Scene Description: In the first arch directly below the 1st one of the side of the bowl, two horned animals, four legged one on top of the other.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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BU02: animal - mammal - goat - 2 - copulating
Scene Description: Two goat like creatures, copulating.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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BU05: symbol - tree - Tree of life
Scene Description: seen here partially in the left arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3529-237.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1914 by Johnny Roosval, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131737.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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BU06: animal - mammal - lion
Scene Description: seen here on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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BU07: symbol - tree - Tree of life
Scene Description: seen here on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the drilled(?) hole in one of the heads of the base; was it used as drain?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940829F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940829F1] [accessed 13 May 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image [3529-242.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1914 by Johnny Roosval, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131784.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font - east side
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Image Source: digital image [3529-240.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1951 by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131741.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: the artist, Olof Sörling, rendered in 1880 two of the heads on the base clearly as a ram (left) and a human (right)
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Image Source: digital image [3529-232.TIF] of a 1880 drawing by Olof Sörling, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131726.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: Original caption: "Dopfunt, sandsten, mellansvenskt arbete, 1100-talets slut."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3529-232.TIF] of a 1880 drawing by Olof Sörling, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131726.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals and bases
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: complex vegetable designs form the links and fill the spandrels
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: complex and intricate interactions fill any spaces the animals leave
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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view of basin - underbowl - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940829F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940829F1] [accessed 13 May 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940829F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940829F1] [accessed 13 May 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940829F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940829F1] [accessed 13 May 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940829F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940829F1] [accessed 13 May 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940829F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940829F1] [accessed 13 May 2020]
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design element - patterns - linked vegetation
Scene Description: loosely made rings intersect with vegetation and some of the animals; complex vegetable designs form the links
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Image Source: digital image [3529-243.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1914 by Johnny Roosval, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131785.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of basin - underbowl - detail
Scene Description: Original caption: "Dopfunt, sandsten, mellansvenskt arbete, 1100-talets slut, cuppan, detalj."
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Image Source: digital image [3529-237.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1914 by Johnny Roosval, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131737.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of iconographic program
Scene Description: Original caption: "Dopfunt, sandsten, mellansvenskt arbete, 1100-talets slut, detalj, cuppan. Foto efter teckning? B. Boustedt och Hans E. Heineman, Sånga kyrka, konsthistoriskt inventarium 1943-44."
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Image Source: digital image [3529-234.TIF] of a B&W photograph of a drawing [B. Boustedt & Hans E. Heineman] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131728.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Udo Schröter, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2008 by Udo Schröter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_Färingsö.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Equilo [Johan Fredriksson], 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2014 by Equilo [Johan Fredriksson] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka,_flygfoto_2014-09-20.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI
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animal - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940829F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940829F1] [accessed 13 May 2020]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: they are very eroded now for identification: possibly one human and three animal
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Image Source: digital image [3529-238.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1950 by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sånga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200131739.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00174SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1997-06-16
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mälardalsgruppen [SHM]
Cognate Fonts: Bro, Järfälla and Litslena (Uppland), as well as Ytterselö (Södermanland)
Church / Chapel Name: Sånga kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: orig. church 12thC; enlarged 14thC; modified through the centuries -- Lovely, single aisle church, richly ornamented
Church Address: Sånga Prästgårdsväg 1, 179 96 Svartsjö, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 8 564 209 20
Site Location: Uppland, Uppsala län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Ekerö, on Färentuna island, Uppland, about 20 km WNW of Stockholm
Ecclesiastic Region: Stockholms stift
Historical Region: Färentuna härad, Uppland, Stockholms län
Additional Comments: This font was not photographed in 1997; we visited the church and took measurements but no images (!)
Font Notes:
Click to view
There is an entry for this font in Utställningen av äldre kyrklig konst i Uppsala 1918: Katalog (1918); it identifies animals on the basin sides (bird, pair of animals with their necks bent backwards, pair of facing birds, another pair of animals, bird, winged centaur, deer; around the underbowl it notes: a plant, a lion. another plant, pair of animals one on top of the other, another such, man riding an animal, another plant; on the base are four heads; it gives a 12th-century date for it. Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland (1921- , Bd. VI, hft. 2: 349-353) as a sandstone baptismal font of the late-12th century; the basin is cylindrical with tall sides and a conical underbowl, and is believed to be a central Swedish work; the basin sides, as well as those on the underbowl, are completely covered in a busy low-relief, the main structure of which are several large circles occupied by different animals (eagles, dragons...), interlace, etc. The base is cylindrical in shape and has four protruding heads (lion, ram and two other unidentified animals) on the upper half; the rest of it is plain. The same source (ibid.) gives the baptismal fonts at Bro, Järfälla and Litslena (Uppland) and the one at Ytterselö (Södermanland) as cognate fonts. Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940829F1] as a "Mälardalsgruppen" baptismal font made of sandstone in the late-12th century. On-site notes: the font is of the same general shape and design as some of the Gotland fonts, uses some of the same Byzantios motifs and has the same Hegwaldr arches on the underbowl. An influence connection between the two areas is therefore obvious.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 653913 6583059
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 59.358111, 17.707611
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 59° 21′ 29.2″ N, 17° 42′ 27.4″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 7.5-8.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm* / 51 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 66-67.5 cm* / 67 cm**
Height of Basin Side: 30-32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 54 cm*
Height of Base: 37 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm* / 93 cm**
Notes on Measurements: *BSI on-ste / ** Katalog (1918) [NB: the Katalog gives the depth as 63 cm but this is very unlikely]
REFERENCES
- Utställningen av Äldre kyrklig konst i Uppsala 1918, Uppsala: Appelbergs Bocktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1918, p. 16
- Brandel, Sven, Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1921-1984, Bd. VI, hft. 2: 349-353