Gramanstorp / Gråmanstorp

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animal - mammal - lion - head - protruding tongue

Scene Description: it appears to be the only ornamentation on the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - head - with prey in its jaws - human

Scene Description: Carlsson [cf. FontNotes] describes this as "the head of lion with a man lying on its tongue outsider its mouth"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

animal - mammal - ram - head

Scene Description: the depth of the carving can be appreciated here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - circle - with concentric patterns inside - 2

a rare combination carved flat on the side of the base, between two of the protruding motifs (the strong man, on the left, and the three seated figures on the right)

Scene Description: a rare combination carved flat on the side of the base, between two of the protruding motifs (the strong man, on the left, and the three seated figures on the right)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

human figure - male - seated - 3

the figure in the centre is clean-shaven and wears rich garments; the arm-rests end in animal heads and the front legs of the throne or chair are decorated with torsade pattern

Scene Description: the figure in the centre is clean-shaven and wears rich garments; the arm-rests end in animal heads and the front legs of the throne or chair are decorated with torsade pattern

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

human figure - male - weight-lifter or strong-man - column-hugger - with heads

bearded and wearing a belt of strength, identified in Carlsson as Samson; there are five heads above it, one on its shoulder. NB: this "belted" image may have nothing to do with Samson [cf. Rydén's notes on the belted figures at Lund Cathedral (1995: 48ff)].

Scene Description: bearded and wearing a belt of strength, identified in Carlsson as Samson; there are five heads above it, one on its shoulder. NB: this "belted" image may have nothing to do with Samson [cf. Rydén's notes on the belted figures at Lund Cathedral (1995: 48ff)].

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

view of base - detail

unlike the other two figures of this group this one is either naked or wears tight fitting clothes and has an unhappy demeanour, hunched and with the bearded head resting on his hands

Scene Description: unlike the other two figures of this group this one is either naked or wears tight fitting clothes and has an unhappy demeanour, hunched and with the bearded head resting on his hands

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 January 2007 by Hideko Bondesen [www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Graaman_kirke/Graaman_kirke311.htm] [accessed 3 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "man med styrkebälte"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F1] [accessed 18 June 2021]

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

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "man sittande på tronstol"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F1] [accessed 18 June 2021]

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

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "lejon med man i gapet"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F1] [accessed 18 June 2021]

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

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "cirkelornament"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F1] [accessed 18 June 2021]

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

view of base - detail

Scene Description: another view of the seated group; the two animal heads can be seen here in some detail: one, avian (?) the other, feline (?)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

view of base - detail

Scene Description: another view of the 'column hugger', with one head on his right shoulder, while the other heads appear to part the column

view of base- detail

view of the three seated group from the left; the figure perched on the arm rest is bearded and wears rich garments; the end of the arm-rest is animal but different from the one on the other side

Scene Description: view of the three seated group from the left; the figure perched on the arm rest is bearded and wears rich garments; the end of the arm-rest is animal but different from the one on the other side

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "lejonmask"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F1] [accessed 18 June 2021]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: with the plugged centre drain

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - door and key

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: the west tower and 'vapenuset' were added to the 12thC nave in the 15thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2010 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gråmanstorps_kyrka_ext1.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2010 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gråmanstorps_kyrka_ext4.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

the font is partially visible at the far [east] end of the nave, left [north] side, in front of the choir stalls; obviously not its original location

Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the far [east] end of the nave, left [north] side, in front of the choir stalls; obviously not its original location

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 January 2007 by Hideko Bondesen [www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Graaman_kirke/Graaman_kirke101.htm] [accessed 3 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F1] [accessed 18 June 2021]

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

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F1] [accessed 18 June 2021]

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

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: by the choir pews, at the east end of the nave

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00391GRA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Gråmanstorps kyrka

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Gråmanstorp, 264 21 Klippan, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 435 103 86

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Skåne, Skåne län

Directions to Site: Located off (W) highway 13, just NW of Klippan, ENE of Kvidinge, 30 km ENE of Helsingborg

Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift

Historical Region: Norra Åsbo härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the choir stalls

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: A column in the crypt at Lund's cathedral; a font/stoup at Dinan, France, [cf. Index entry for Dinan No. 1] has a similar type of "belted" figure

Church Notes: church said to have been built by the Cistercian monks of the monastery at Herrevad using builders who had built the cathedral at Lund; consecrated ca. 1060 with dedication to St. Mary; tower added ca. 1400; extended 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Brunius (1850). Described and illustrated in Tynell (1913-1921) as a baptismal font made of sandstone; Tynell describes the decoration of the font. Rydbeck (1936) refers to this font in the context of sculptural themes and treatment at Lund cathedral [cf. infra]. In describing the representation of Samson with the columns Carlsson (1976: 81) gives this font as "the only example that has been fully accepted as picturing the same motif." "The font at Gråmanstorp has been cut with great craftmanship and has been dated to the 12th century. The base of the font has four protruding figures and these are clockwise: 1) a column with a man gripping a column. He has a beard and wears a belt of strength (type I) with a child lying across his arms. 2) the head of a ram, 3) three men in a chair, the one in the middle being much larger than the other two, 4) the head of a lion with a man lying on its tongue outside its mouth." (Ibid.) Carlsson (ibid., p. 86) adds that "the explanation for its placing here is found in the fact that fonts often are built up like architecture and that the base and its figures often illustrate a tectonic function." The presence of the column-hugging figures is also referred to by Rydén (1995: 48-53) in the context of the "Finnskulpturerna" at Lund Cathedral, where other figures wearing the "belt of strength" have been carved holding on to columns, and there is a famous medieval stoup or font in Dinan, France, with this type of belted strong-man figure. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century Mid-17th century baptismal dish.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.149814, 13.100111

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 8′ 59.33″ N, 13° 6′ 0.4″ E

UTM: 33V 381975 6224379

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: 2

Font Shape: tib-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm* / 70 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 71.5 cm* / 71 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Tynell (1913-1921) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900506F1]

REFERENCES

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

Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976

Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936

Rydén, Thomas, Domkyrkan i Lund, Malmö: Corona, 1995

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