Barseback / Barsebäck
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: varied, in both the upper and lower spandrels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograoh 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Barseback25.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2017
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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus - palmette
Scene Description: three of them seen here centre to left; the pattern changes on the right to linked circles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograoh 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Barseback25.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2017
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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette?
Scene Description: on half of the basin side
design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles - 3-strand
Scene Description: a palmette is partially visible at the left end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograoh 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Barseback26.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2017
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jorchr, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2008 by Jorchr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barsebäcks_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograoh 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Barseback05.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2017
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view of church interior - tower - ceiling - painting
Scene Description: Source caption: "Barsebäck kyrka i Skåne, Sverige. Kalkmalerier i tårnrummets hvælv"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograoh 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Barseback18.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2017
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2006
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00397BAR
Church/Chapel: Barsebäcks kyrka
Church Location: Kyrkvägen 2, 246 57 Barsebäck, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 46 70 80 40
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Kävlinge, about 12 km S of Landskrona, 25 kms N of Malmö, just inland from Barsebäckshamn
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Harjagers härad, Malmöhus län, Skåne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the transept, just east of the stairs to the pulpit
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mårten stenmästare / Hörsgruppen
Church Notes: church 12thC; attached tower added ca. 1300; modified and expanded 15th, 16th, 18thC;
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Skåne (Bd. I, hft. 2: 71-73, 86) as a sandstone cylindrical mounted baptismal font of the 12th century; the basin sides has foliage motif (palmettes?) on half of it (front?), while the other half (back?) has an interlace of linked three-strand rings, "decoration typical of the fonts in the region" (ibid., p. 86); the underbowl is chamfered and plain. The base is cylindrical and plain. The whole is raised on a wider circular sandstone plinth that had been found in the western tower. In Rydbeck (1936: 172ff), who groups it together with other such fonts of Scania; four of the fonts of this group are identified by a Runic signature "Mårten", all four in the Harjager district.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
55.770833,
12.956944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
55° 46′ 15″ N,
12° 57′ 25″ E
UTM: 33U 371836 6182464
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two (plus plinth)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Sveriges kyrkor: Skåne (Bd. I, hft. 2: 71)
REFERENCES
Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936
Rydbeck, Monica, Sveriges kyrkor: Skåne, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1932-1972