Borrby / Borreby

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UBH01: animal - mammal - lion - head - holding tendril in its mouth

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

UBH02: human figure - head

Scene Description: one of two

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

UBH03: animal - mammal - bear - holding tendril in its mouth

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

UBH04: human figure - head

Scene Description: long-haired and clean-shaven; the SHM identifies as female [="kvinnohuvud"]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

design element - motifs - fish scale pattern

Scene Description: between the heads and another row lower down

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral, foliage and fruit

Scene Description: in both the upper and lower spandrels

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding - circular vine motif

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900730F3] [accessed 21 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding - beaded tape

Scene Description: beads in the folds of the rope

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900730F3] [accessed 21 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

design element - motifs - vine - grapevine

Scene Description: all around the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

design element - patterns - scalloped - fish scale pattern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

symbol - letter - L or E?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of base

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Tynell (1913-1921: pl. XXXI: 1)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900730F3] [accessed 21 May 2021]

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view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Tynell (1913-1921: pl. XXXI: 1)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin - south side - circular vine motif

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin and baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin and baptismal dish - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Borrby kyrka in Skåne, Sweden"

Image Source: digital photograph 24 March 2008 by Jorchr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borrby_kyrka_2.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Borrby kyrka [...] Gamla kyrkan från sydväst, riven 1838. Blyertsteckning."

Image Source: enhanced digital image [htsk0060] of a 15 January 2015 photograph by Lars Kennerstedt of an 1838 pencil drawing, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borrby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000532651.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - baptismal dish - detail

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing partially the font on the south side of the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - votive ship

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - window - stained glass

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Tynell (1913-1921: pl. XXXI: 1)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Tynell (1913-1921: pl. XXXI: 1)

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view of font

Image Source: digitally enhanced image of an illustration in Brunius (1850, pl. XIII: 4)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900730F3] [accessed 21 May 2021]

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view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of font - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

view of font and baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph by Geleja in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/056169/images/56169_35709070] [accessed 30 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font and baptismal dish - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2023 by BSI

view of font in context - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2024 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00375BOR

Church/Chapel: Borrby kyrka / Sankta Maria kyrka

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Hörupsvägen 3, 276 30 Borrby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 414 639 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Skåne, Skåne län

Directions to Site: Located off local roads M1003/M1501/M1512 confluence, 4-5 km SSE of Hammenhög, about 15 km SW of Simris

Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift

Historical Region: Ingelstads härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SE corner of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Calcarius

Church Notes: present chuch 1838-1841 replaced medieval [12th-13thC?] stone building here; the watercolour paintings in the sacristy of the new church are copies of the frescoes in the old church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Brunius (1850). Described and illustrated in Tynell (1913-1921: [65] and pl. XXXI: 1): medieval baptismal font of the group that bears its name ["Borrbygruppen"], made of limestone from Gotland. Noted in Roosval (1918). Noted in Rydbeck (1936). Noted in Strömbom (1942). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900730F3] as a baptismal font made of limestone in the first half of the 13th century by Calcarius. Listed in Drake (2002: 183) as a baptismal font fom the Calcarius workshop. The cylindrical basin has a large tendril curling all around; at the upper rim, a flat moulding; at the lower, a rope moulding; the underbowl is decorated with scalloped pattern. The base is a round pedestal decorated with four protruding heads, two animal, two human; one of them biting the acanthus tendril that adorns the spaces between the heads; another band of the same motif runs all around below the heads. No font cover present. The baptismal dish is dated 1609. [NB: a second font in the church is said to be late-16th century, but we have no information on it].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.458056, 14.177778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 27′ 29″ N, 14° 10′ 40″ E

UTM: 33U 448005 6146073

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (from Gotland)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8.5-9.25 cm***

Diameter (inside rim): 61-62 cm***

Diameter (includes rim): 81 cm* / 80 cm** / 79-80 cm***

Basin Depth: 43 cm***

Height of Basin Side: 34.5-35.5 cm***

Basin Total Height: 37 cm***

Height of Base: 49-52 cm***

Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm***

Font Height (with Plinth): 98.7 cm* / 99 cm** / 98 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * Tynell (1913-1921: [65]) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900730F3] / *** BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Brunius, Carl Georg, Skånes Konsthistoria från Medeltiden, Lund: Hos Förläggaren, 1850

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

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

Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936

Statens Historiska Museum, Stocholm, Medeltidens bildvärld, 2003. Accessed: 2024-08-24 00:00:00. URL: https://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/sok/avancerad.asp.

Strömbom, Ragnhild, "Calcarius, en gotländsk stenhuggareverkstad under 1100-talets slut och 1200-talets förra hälft", XI-XIII (1942-1944), Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1942-1944

Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921