Skjeberg / Skiabærgha / Skialbergh

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - holding book and sword

Scene Description: (side D - a/p Solhaug) in the first arch from the left

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - with sword

Scene Description: (side A - a/p Solhaug) in the first arch from the right

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key

Scene Description: (side B - a/p Solhaug) in the first arch from the right [NB: St Peter holding a key is also present on side A, left-most arch]

Image Source: digital photograph 31 September 2014 by Even Ballangrud Andersen [http://sarpsborg2016.no/Blogg/Even-Ballangrud-Andersen/Perlen-fra-middelalderen/] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and book

Scene Description: (side A - a/p Solhaug) on the front side, extreme left arch [NB: St Peter holding a key is also present on side B, right-most arch]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: (side C - a/p Solhaug) in the four corners of the quatrefoil frame around the Majestas Domini. [NB: the "angel" of Mark (he looks more like a deacon) is holding a censer in the right hand and a book in the left - conflated image?]

Image Source: digital photograph in lessing-photo.com [www.pinterest.com/pin/379780181046467830/] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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Apostle or saint - St. John the Baptist

Scene Description: (side A - a/p Solhaug) in the second arch from the right

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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Apostle or saint - St. John the Baptist

Scene Description: (side C - a/p Solhaug) in the first arch from the right

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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Apostle or saint - male - unidentified

Scene Description: (side D - a/p Solhaug) in the second arch from the left

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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Apostle or saint - male - unidentified - 2

Scene Description: (side D - a/p Solhaug) in the first two arches from the right; one of them, in the right-most arch, holds his hands in an orant position

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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Apostle or saint - male - unidentified - 4

Scene Description: (side B - a/p Solhaug) in the first four arches from the left; the third one holds his hands in an orant position

Image Source: digital photograph 31 September 2014 by Even Ballangrud Andersen [http://sarpsborg2016.no/Blogg/Even-Ballangrud-Andersen/Perlen-fra-middelalderen/] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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Christ - Christ in Majesty - with book in left hand - right hand raised in benediction

Scene Description: (side A - a/p Solhaug) in a mandorla, in the central arch of the front side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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Christ - Christ in Majesty - with book in left hand - right hand raised in benediction

Scene Description: (side C - a/p Solhaug) in the centre of the arcade, in a quatrefoil frame

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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Virgin Mary

Scene Description: (side A - a/p Solhaug) in the second arch from the left

Virgin Mary

Scene Description: (side C - a/p Solhaug) in the first arch from the left; her hair braided on the left side of her head

Image Source: digital photograph in lessing-photo.com [www.pinterest.com/pin/379780181046467830/] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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cleric - priest - with book

Scene Description: (side D - a/p Solhaug) in the centre arch, holds a richly decorated book

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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

Scene Description: five per side

Image Source: digital photograph 31 September 2014 by Even Ballangrud Andersen [http://sarpsborg2016.no/Blogg/Even-Ballangrud-Andersen/Perlen-fra-middelalderen/] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the capitals of the columns that make up the base of the font

Image Source: digital photograph 31 September 2014 by Even Ballangrud Andersen [http://sarpsborg2016.no/Blogg/Even-Ballangrud-Andersen/Perlen-fra-middelalderen/] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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symbol - cross - Latin

Scene Description: several of them, on the capitals of the columns that make up the base of the font

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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view of basin - projection

Scene Description: the sides coded and the figures numbered for the references in the text of Solhaug's article

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2013 by Bjoertvedt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarpsborg_Skjeberg_kirke_rk_85456_IMG_7979.JPG] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2013 by Bjoertvedt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarpsborg_Skjeberg_kirke_rk_85456_IMG_7986.JPG] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph 31 September 2014 by Even Ballangrud Andersen [http://sarpsborg2016.no/Global/Blogg/Historie/skjeberg kirke_interiør.jpg] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: the replica copy of the Skjeberg font as displayed inside the Sarpsborg Borgarsysselmuseum

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Hideko Bondesen [www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Sarpsborg_museum/Skebjerg(01).JPG] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern replacement shaft is seen here at the back, right side, in a light-blue colour

Image Source: digital photograph 31 September 2014 by Even Ballangrud Andersen [http://sarpsborg2016.no/Blogg/Even-Ballangrud-Andersen/Perlen-fra-middelalderen/] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph in lessing-photo.com [www.pinterest.com/pin/379780181046467830/] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mona Bramer Solhaug's I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke (1998)

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view of font in context

Scene Description: inside the Sarpsborg Borgarsysselmuseum; the replica copy of the Skjeberg font is partially visible behind the white display case

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Hideko Bondesen [www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Sarpsborg_museum/Sarpmus(08).JPG] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00223SKJ

Church/Chapel: Skjeberg Hovedkirke

Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ, St. Mary and St. Peter

Church Location: Prestegårdsbakken 30, 1746 Skjeberg, Norway -- Tel.: +47 69 12 41 31

Country Name: Norway

Location: Østfold, Østlandet

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of, and 7 km SE of Sarpsborg, in S Norway, in the indent close to the Swedish border

Ecclesiastic Region: Borg bispedømme

Historical Region: Kristiania

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N side of the chancel

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Fincham, Sculthorpe, Preston and several other English fonts of similar design (though ornamental motifs differ)

Church Notes: church ca. 1100; restored 1300, 1750 and 1968

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Nordström (1984): reports a scene of Christ in Majesty on the font. An illustration in Champeaux (1972) shows the front side of a square mounted font, probably of the 12th or 13th century; the front side of the square basin is ornamented with a tall arcade of five round arches, the centre one widened to take the form of the usual mandorla in which Christ in Majesty is represented; in the arches to either side, thin hieratic figures (St. Peter, Mary the Virgin, John the Baptist and St. Paul); on the opposite side, another five-arch arcade with another Majestas Domini in the centre, but on this side the MDni is contained in quatrefoil frame that occupies three arches together with the symbols of the four Evangelists [note the censer-carrying angel in the upper left corner, perhaps a conflation of the MDni censing angel and St. Mark's symbol]; only two figures, Mary to the left, and John the Baptist to the right; the second side of the basin has five arches with five sigures, only the one at the extreme right recognisable as St. Peter by the large key he carries; the fourth side has also five arches and five figures, with the one at the extreme left being probably St. Paul with the sword and the book; the figure in the central arch is identified by Solhaug as a priest, clearly displaying the rich stole and alba, as well as a very ornate book in his hand (missal?). The base consists of a central column and four corner colonnettes (though the latter are almost as thick as the former); they have capitals ornamented with foliage and Latin crosses, and well-defined bases; the whole is raised on a square lower base. Although the figures, especially the faces, are crudely represented, the whole font is well-balanced and proportioned, and the figures themselves, all raised on stools, are well executed. Illustrated and studied in detail in Solhaug (1998: 27-46), and date to the last quarter of the 12th century; she identifies the work -as well as the soapstone- as local, and "the only specimen in Scandinavia of the type with a four-sided basin carried by five pillars" (ibid., p. 45); Solhaug also identifies some of the individual figures, and points out that "the iconographic interpretation of the font from Skjeberg accentuates that praise and processions had a central place in the celestial liturgy: (ibid., p. 46); she also emphasizes the meaning of the baptismal font as "fons vitae" and dwels on the special significance of the four sided design as replicating "the picture of the world and the celestial city", both four-sided, and the font "as an expression of God's heavenly character and the Church's terrestrial function" (ibid.) [NB: the uniqueness of design pointed out by Solhaug is, as she states, limited to Scandinavia. This type of design -with the expected variations- was, however, common among Norman fonts in England (e.g.:Burnham Deepdale, Burnham Norton, Crambe, Fincham, Locking, Preston, Sculthorpe), and carried over well into the 13th century (e.g.: Buxted), while the representation of holy figures in narrow arcades on the basin sides of fonts found also popularity even in some (so-called) pre-Conquest fonts (e.g.: Stoneleigh) and, later, in lead fonts (e.g.: Ashover, Dorchester, Walton-on-the-Hill, Wareham) -- The entry in Norges Kirker by Sigrid Marie Christie, and Håkon Christie [www.norgeskirker.no/wiki/Skjeberg_kirke] [accessed 19 December 2015] actually suggests that the font may have been carved by an artist from England [="Fonten er muligens hugget av en engelsk kunstner, men ligger over de tilsvarende engelske fonter i kvalitet"]. The font cover is also described in Norges Kirker (ibid.): "Døpefonthimling, forært av Werenskiold mellom 1730 og 1732. Ant. utført av Thomas Blix og fullført av Erik Revhaug. Himlingens form tyder på at den er et omarbeidet renessansestykke, 6-kantet med 4 bøyler som ender i masker. På midtstolpen figur med velsignelsesgestus. Stående akantusplater mellom bøylene. En av platene adskiller seg sterkt fra de øvrige, idet den er hardt og primitivt skaret, ant. av Revhaug. På undersiden akantusrosett hvortil festet en due. Hovedfarver: grønt, rødt, gull. Undersiden blå bunn. Største diam. ca. 150 cm." This same source cites a dating of the font by Reidar Kjellberg between 1125-1150. There is a replica copy of this font on display at the Sarpsborg Borgarsyssel Museum.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.228889, 11.189722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 13′ 44″ N, 11° 11′ 23″ E

UTM: 32V 624954 6567591

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone (local)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: originally drained via central shaft; now blocked -- no lining

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 59 x 59 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Norges Kirker [www.norgeskirker.no/wiki/Skjeberg_kirke] [accessed 19 December 2015]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1730-1732 [but may have earlier components]

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Champeaux, Gérard de, Introduction au monde des symboles, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1972

Kjellberg, R., ""Majestas Domini" på døpofonten i Skjeberg", 1974, 2, Wirwar, 1974, pp. 8-12; r["References"]

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

Solhaug, Mona Bramer, "I himmel og på jord: Døpefonten i Skjeberg kirke", 1995-1996, 1998, pp. 27-46; r["References"]