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animal - mammal - ram - head
design element - motifs - palmette
view of church exterior - northwest view
![Source caption: "Sövestads kyrka [...] Kyrkan från nordväst."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210813022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sövestads kyrka [...] Kyrkan från nordväst."
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption; "Sövestads kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jorchr, 2005
Image Source: digital phoograph 21 August 2005 by Jorchr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sövestads_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Sövestads kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210813023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sövestads kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1586-1.TIF] of a 1929 B&W photograph by Erik Andrén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sövestads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200063532.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tynell (1913-1921: p. XXI: 1)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font - upper view
Scene Description: showing the copper lining of the inner basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900719F2] [accessed 13 August 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 00393SOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sövestads kyrka
Church Location: Fårabacksvägen 1, 271 95 Ystad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 411 610 02
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located off (W) county road 13, in the municipality and about 8 km N of Ystad
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Herrestads härad, Skåne län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: 12thC church; enlarged and tower added later medieval period; renovated 19thC and, again, in 1916
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Tynell (1913-1921: 54 and pl. XXI: 1) as a medieval baptismal font consisting of a plain roughly hemispherical basin mounted on a two volume base: the upper a moulded round combination of torus-scotia and an earlier one that has a round moulding with palmettes and a horned head [ram?] motifs at 90-degree angles; the lowest volume is square and plain. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900719F2] as a baptimal font made of sandstone in the first half of the 13th century; the SHM entry reports a copper lining in the inner basin. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.500833, 13.797222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 30′ 3″ N, 13° 47′ 50″ E
UTM: 33U 424023 6151183
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: copper lining
Diameter (includes rim): 62.5 cm* / 62 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 82 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * Tynell (1913-1921: 54) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900719F2]
REFERENCES
Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921