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Scene Description: Source caption: "FRA 1100-tallet: Maria Magdalena på døpefonten i Nøtterøy kirke, datert til cirka 1150. Foto: Foto: Kurt Slåttvik"

Image Source: digital photograph 13 November 2018 by Kurt Slåttvik, in Harald Boehlke's Draco: Gnostikernes Slange i Nøtterøy Kirke [https://www.tb.no/dinkultur/religion-og-livssyn/kirke/draco-gnostikernes-slange-i-notteroy-kirke/s/5-76-938341] [accesed 5 October 2022]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Sokkelen fra nordvest. Biskop med mitra og bok. Til høyre for ham, steinhuggeren, og til venstre, knelende mann. Den hodeløse kvinnens far? (Foto: Svein Hermansen)"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Svein Hermansen, in Eivind Luthen' s Dåpen – innvielsen til livet, in Nøtterøy Historielag [https://www.notteroyhistorielag.no/dapen-innvielsen-til-livet/] [accessed 4 October 2022]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fra sydøst. Ridder med sverd og spisst skjold. Til venstre for ham, akantus, til høyre dragen og den hodeløse personen. (Foto: Svein Hermansen)"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fra øst. Ridder, drage og hodeløs person. Dragen truer den hodeløse prinsessen, men ridderen lar seg ikke skremme. (Foto: Svein Hermansen)"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fra vest. Biskop, steinhugger og mann med krum stav. Selveste St. Peter? (Foto: Svein Hermansen)"

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Image Source: digital photograph 21 May 2006 [unknown author] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nøtterø_kirke.JPG] [accessed 4 October 2022]

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Scene Description: the composite font stands by the left [north] side of the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph by Toril Granhaug in Kirkebyggdatabasen [https://kirkesok.no/kirke/072000101] [accessed 4 October 2022]

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Scene Description: the composite font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in Kirkesøk [https://kirkesok.no/kirke/072000101] [accesed 4 October 2022]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Døpefonten, trolig fra Gotland, laget omkring 1200 [...] Illustrasjon hentet fra boken "Nøtterø" av Berg, Lorens og utgitt av (Kristiania, 1922)"

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Lorens Berg's "Nøtterø" (Kristiania, 1922), in the Nasjonalbiblioteket [https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Fil:No-nb_digibok_2013102224002_0179_2.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2022]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Døpefonten i Nøtterøy kirke. Sokkelen er trolig det fineste skulpturarbeid vi har i stein fra middelalderens Vestfold. (Foto: Svein Hermansen)"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Illustrasjon hentet fra boken "Nøtterø" av Berg, Lorens og utgitt av (Kristiania, 1922)"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Detalj av døpefonten [...] Illustrasjon hentet fra boken "Nøtterø" av Berg, Lorens og utgitt av (Kristiania, 1922)"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Døpefont og alterstake, Nøtterøy kirke, Nøtterøy, Vestfold." ][NB: candelabrum edited out of the image]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the Johan J. Meyer (1860-1940) og Erling Gjones (1898-1990) samlinger, Norsk Folkemuseum [https://digitaltmuseum.no/011013469927/dopefont-og-alterstake-notteroy-kirke-notteroy-vestfold] [accessed 4 October 2022]

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Image Source: digital photograph 2010 by Tollef Thorsnes [http://tollef-thorsnes.no/utsmykninger/notteroy_kirke3.html] [accessed 4 October 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00419NOT

Church/Chapel: Nøtterøy Kirke / Kyrkje

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [original dedication]

Church Location: Kirkeveien 192, 3140 Nøtterøy, Norway

Country Name: Norway

Location: Vestfold

Directions to Site: Located off local road 308 [aka Kirkeveien], N of Borgheim, S of Tønsberg

Ecclesiastic Region: Tunsberg Bispedømme

Historical Region: Vestfold, Kristiania

Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Anonymous Calcarius

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mona Bramer Solhaug for sharing her baptismal font information with BSI

Church Notes: church ca. 1100?; expanded and modified twice in the 19thC;

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Listed and illustrated in Solhaug (2001) as the surviving base of an early-13th century baptismal font made of Burgsvik sandstone in the south of Gotland and imported into Norway. The modern replacement basin was made of soapstone in 1920 by Carl Berner kleberstein. Solhaug (ibid.) notes the figures on the base: 1)bishop; 2)cleric with staff; 3)warrior with sword and shield; 4)standing figure with severed head; the sides are decorated with a possible stonemason at work, an acanthus plant, a fabulous monster ["Basilisk eller aspis i profile"] and a smaller human figure. Noted and illustrated in Eivind Luthen' s Dåpen – innvielsen til livet, in Nøtterøy Historielag [https://www.notteroyhistorielag.no/dapen-innvielsen-til-livet/] [accessed 4 October 2022] as the base of a medieval font [the basin is 1920] made of reddish limestone bearing a bishop with mitre and book, a knifght with sword and pointed shield, a person with a severed head and a man with a staff; on the side between the standing figures can be seen a seaing man with a hammer and chisel; on another side a dragon whose ling tongue reaches towards the soldier; another side has an acanthus plant, while the fourth has a kneeling figure. Luthen (ibid.) notes that some of the figures has been given possible identifications in other sources: the knight could be St George, the headless figure a woman and the kneeling figure next to it her father; the standing figure and abbot with his staff or a sheepherding St Peter; the seated figure with the hammer possible the 'steinhugger', the Gotland master himself; the acanthus a symbol of life. Harald Boehlke's Draco: Gnostikernes Slange i Nøtterøy Kirke [https://www.tb.no/dinkultur/religion-og-livssyn/kirke/draco-gnostikernes-slange-i-notteroy-kirke/s/5-76-938341] [accesed 5 October 2022] identifies the headless figure in one of the corners of the base as Mary Magdalene. The entry for this church in Den Norske Kirke [https://web.archive.org/web/20131213001923/http://www.kirken.notteroy.no/index.phtml?pid=2757] [accessed 4 October 2022] suggests that this limestone font base may be the work of Dighrag, ca. 1175-1210; it identifies the corner figures as: 1) a bearded cleric wearing a bishop's hat; 2)a bishop carrying a staff; 3)a knight with a pointed shield; 4)a figure with a severed head; the side between the two bishps shows a seated man holding a hammer, perhaps the mason who carved the work: "Dåpefonten har opprinnelig bestått av fotstykke og vannskål. Dette kunstverket synes å være fra slutten av 1100-tallet. Stilpreget viser i retning av en overgangsform mellom romansk og gotisk. Døpefonten er sannsynligvis av gotlandsk opprinnelse. Stenhuggeren Sighraf, som virket 1175 - 1210, er muligens kunstneren bak dette meget interessante inventar av kirken. Døpefontens fotstykke er av kalksten. I hver av sokkelens hjørner er det uthugget en mannsperson. 1. En geistelig med helskjegg og bispehue. 2. En biskop med sid kjortel og krum stav. 3. En ridder med spisst skjold. 4. En figur med avslått hode. - Mellom de to geistlige er det uthugget en sittende mann med løftet hammer - sannsynligvis en avbildning av kunstneren som har utført døpefonten." Mentioned in Gravgaver [https://www.gravgaver.no/gotland-dopefonter.htm] [accessed 2 October 2022] as one of twelve medieval fonts imported from Gotland into Norway: "Borre (av kummen er kun fragmenter bevart), Eidanger (kun fot), Fon (nederste del av kummen), Hidra (skaft og fot), Holmedal (skaft og fot), Hvaler, Nøtterøy (kun underdel), Ramnes (skaft og fot, fire hoder skyter ut fra vulsten), Sannidal, Sæbø, Tanum, Våle."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.229944, 10.406861

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 13′ 47.8″ N, 10° 24′ 24.7″ E

UTM: 32V 580284 6566504

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Burgsvik, Gotland)

Height of Base: 79 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 54 x 49 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Solhaug (2001)