Algutsrum

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Results: 44 records

B01: human figure - on horseback

Scene Description: passant to the left -- on the northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208118

B02: scene [unidentified]

Scene Description: two figures engaged in the centre of the scene; a possible smaller figure in the right corner-- on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208123

B03: human figure - male - warrior - 2

Scene Description: perhaps crowned; the figure on the left carries a pointed shield and a raised sword, while the figure on the right has not drawned the sword -- on the west side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208125

B04: unidentified

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208129

B05: unidentified

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208131

B06: unidentified

Scene Description: possibly with a quadruped in it? -- on the southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

BU01: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant

Scene Description: passant to the left; perhaps a horse -- on the east side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208115

BU02: animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant

Scene Description: passant to the left; the tail and its position suggest a lion -- on the northwest side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208123

BU03: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: on the west side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208125

BU04: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant-gardant

Scene Description: passant to the left; perhaps a horse? -- on the southwest side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208129

BU05: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: restored/re-tooled -- on the south side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208131

BU06: symbol - tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: restored/re-tooled -- on the southeast side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur

Scene Description: the arms of the centaur appear to generate the snake bodies that loop and interlace on the other sides of the base -- on the south side of the base [orietation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital image of a detail of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

animal - head

Scene Description: though much eroded now, it was probably rendered originally as an animal head -- on the east side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208115

animal - head

Scene Description: though much eroded now, it was probably rendered originally as an animal head -- on the southwest side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208129

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

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208118

design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: the multiple loop here is probably part of the bodies of the snakes usually found in Hegwald's bases -- on the west side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208125

design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: the double loop here is probably part of the bodies of the snakes usually found in Hegwald's bases -- on the northeast side of the base [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208118

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: a broad roll moulding at the top of the base, with animal heads protruding around it

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208125

design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208131

design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade

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Image Source: detail of BSI photograph ALG0208118

information

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Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

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information

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Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

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view of basin - interior

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - south side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - southeast side

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Algutsrum_View.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2014]

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view of church exterior - south portal

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood

Scene Description: Source caption: "Algutsrums kyrka.Krucifix daterat till slutet av 1200-talet."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Bernt Fransson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Algutsrums_kyrka._Krucifix012.JPG] [accessed 26 December 2014]

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view of church interior - altar - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Algutsrums kyrka.Nordtyskt altarskåp från 1475. I skåpets mitt den törnekrönte Kristus flankerad av heliga Birgitta och helgonkungen Sankt Knut. Vänstra dörren pryds av bilder av Sankt Erik och Sankt Olov och den högra dörren Sankt Henrik och Sankt Göran."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Bernt Fransson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Algutsrums_kyrka._Altarskåpet_06.JPG] [accessed 26 December 2014]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: the medieval retable is incorporated in the late-19th century grouping

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Bernt Fransson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Algutsrums_kyrka.Koret_05.JPG] [accessed 26 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Bernt Fransson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Algutsrums_kyrkas_interiör03.JPG] [accessed 26 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Bernt Fransson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Algutsrums_kyrka_Kyrkorummet_mot_väster_08.JPG] [accessed 26 December 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the reconstructed font with the brass baptismal dish on top

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Algutsrum_Baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2014]

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view of font - east side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - north side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - south side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - upper view

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - west side

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of font in context

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00189ALG
Church/Chapel: Algutsrum kyrka
Church Location: Törnbottenvägen 20, 386 90 Färjestaden, Sverige
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Öland, Kalmar län
Directions to Site: Located at the Jordtorpsvägen-Törnboteenvägen crossroads, off (E) the 136 highway, in the municipality of Mörbylånga, across the straits from Kalmar
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Kalmar län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chance, S side
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hegvald? / Hegwald?
Noted and illustrated in (2003) [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920809F1] [accessed 25 June 2016], as a font in the Hegwald workshop style, late-12th century ["Hegvald, kretsen kring(?) [...] 1100-talets andra hälft"]; it identifies only general groupings: rider, figural scene, etc. On-site notes: we found the font restored to a certain extent, in that the deterioration of the stone appears to have been stopped (?), and the whole has been raised on a plinth; most of the basin has suffered from a chemical (?) decomposition of the stone that has left it pitted and scarred, with important loss of the carving; the sides of th basin are divided into round arches that contain figural or animal scenes the identification of which is much hindred by the erosion of the stone; the arches include: a horse and rider; next [L->R]: a figure on the left holds in the right hand the hand of the one on the right, raises the left hand to touch the head of the figure on the right; next [L->R] two armed figures, perhaps crowned, the first figure with shield and drawn sword, the second with sword pointed down; next two arches [L->R] totally eroded; next [L->R] an animal? quadruped?]. The underbowl follows its own squence of motifs; starting under the rider noted above: a quadruped [lion?] passant to the left; next [L->R], one such but gardant; next [L->R] a floral or foliage motiff; next [L->R] another quadruped passant to the left, also gardant; next [L->R] an ornamental motif; next [L->R] a Tree of Life [NB: the last two much re-tooled in the restoration; additionally there are several heads, too worn to be discernible as human or animal, right below the top edge of the underbowl. The base has weathered better; the usual snake (?) body that travels between the four heads in the fonts by Hegwald is here a very thin thread that form loops and interlaces on three of the sides; the fourth is occupied by a centaur; three of the heads appear to be animal, the fourth has an odd helmet-like look but it may simply be a trompe-l'oeil caused by the weathering of the stone; the lower half of the base has a roll moulding and is otherwise plain.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.678889, 16.528333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 40′ 44″ N, 16° 31′ 42″ E
UTM: 33V 593637 6282686

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: round (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 3.5 - 5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 59 - 61 cm
Basin Depth: 24 - 26 cm
Height of Basin Side: 22 cm
Basin Total Height: 46 cm
Height of Base: 42 cm (two parts)
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site