Kestad / Kesta

Results: 36 records

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B01: angel - kneeling - holding object

Scene Description: facing right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

B02: Christ - Christ in Majesty - with book in left hand - right hand raised in benediction

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key - holding staff

Scene Description: Peter in full frontal pose, holding an enormous key in his right hand, a shepherd's staff in his left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

B04: angel - archangel - St. Michael - holding scales

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

B05: animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: The representation is confusing because it is a quadruped, passant to the left, but it appears to have something around its neck, as well as a floating tail; it is a very long tail with the characteristic acanthus tail end; the tail goes under the animal's hind quarters forward around its neck and back again.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

B06: sacrament - eucharist?

Scene Description: a cleric to the left of an altar with a chalice on it; the cleric holds an open book in his left hand

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

B07: Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross - processional cross

Scene Description: in one of the arches of the basin side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

B08: cleric - priest? - with processional cross?

Scene Description: in one of the arches of the basin side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals - 8

Scene Description: each with a scene, figure or motif in it

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: around the upper basin side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "traditio legis"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920529F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920529F3#] [accessed 11 July 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "traditio legis - Kristus"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "traditio legis - Petrus"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "man med våg (Mikaels själavägning ?)"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "man med våg / lejon"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "präst vid altare; Agnus Dei"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "präst med korsstav"

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the church would not recover its medieval proportions until the 1960s

Image Source: digital image of an undated [ca. 1890-1899?] B&W photograph taken by Sanfrid Welin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kestad_sanfrid.JPG] [accessed 3 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - tombestone

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: probably after its re-builting in 1915

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph taken by Adolf Niklasson, in the Riksantikvarieämbetet [ATABild CD 1651, 2852-020.tif] [accessed 3 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the old church before the 1888 demolition

Image Source: digital image of a 1863 drawing by P.A. Säve [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kestad_save.JPG] [accessed 3 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2013 by Bergsven [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kestad_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2016]

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view of church interior - Holy Rood

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kalvariegrupp från Kestad kyrka i Västmanland. Omkring 1200." -- the two figures, Mary and John are carved in linden wood and dated ca.1200; the present Crucifix is a later work

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foto.asp?imageId=9208214] [accessed 3 December 2016]

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view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail

Scene Description: Mary holds her left palm in a sign of grief -- the two figures, Mary and John are carved in linden wood and dated ca.1200; the present Crucifix is a later work

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail

Scene Description: Mary holds her left palm in a sign of grief -- the two figures, Mary and John are carved in linden wood and dated ca.1200; the present Crucifix is a later work

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail

Scene Description: the two figures, Mary and John are carved in linden wood and dated ca.1200; the present Crucifix is a later work

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Åke Johansson, in KyrkoKartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/057603/images/57603_18659853] [accessed 3 December 2016]

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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: sample of the "äldre läcköskolan" frescoes of the mid 17thC (?) ; they were whitewashed over in the late 18thC; and uncovered in 1914-1915

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2013 by Bergsven [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kestad_angel.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2016]

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view of font

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the source caption for this photograph reads: "Kestad kyrka. Funt i Fornminnesföreningens museum i Edåsa." It was taken by Ernst Fisher probably ca. 1910 while the Kestad font was on display in the then temporary museum of the Västergötlands fornminnesförening at the parish church of Edåsa -- that church would eventually revert to its liturgical function in 1938, and the contents were then moved to their oiriginal churches, or to the Västergötlands museum when the original church had disappeared

Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145110:890] of an undated [1910s?] B&W photograph by Ernst Fischer, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017208907/vastergotlands-museum] [accessed 11 July 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the source caption for this photograph reads: "Kestad kyrka. Funt i Fornminnesföreningens museum i Edåsa. Nu i Västergötlands museums samlingar. Återlämnad till Kestad kyrka." It was taken by Ernst Fisher probably ca. 1910 while the Kestad font was on display in the then temporary museum of the Västergötlands fornminnesförening at the parish church of Edåsa -- that church would eventually revert to its liturgical function in 1938, and the contents were then moved to their oiriginal churches, or to the Västergötlands museum when the original church had disappeared

Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145110:891] of an undated [1910s?] B&W photograph by Ernst Fischer, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017208908/vastergotlands-museum] [accessed 11 July 2020]

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

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00456KES

Church/Chapel: Kestads kyrka

Church Location: Kestad, 533 96 Götene, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 511 285 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the E20, in the municipality and 5 km NW of Götene, about 30 km ENE of Lidköping (dir. Mariestad)

Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift

Historical Region: Kinne härad, Götene kn, Skaraborgs län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Skaragruppen [SHM]

Church Notes: church usually dated late-12thC but dendrochronological analyses reported 1131 wood remains; much modified and re-built through its history; partly demolished 1888 and re-built 1915; restored to its medieval proportions 1960s;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Fischer (1918): the baptismal font consists of a cylindrical basin (shaped much like the ones at Hangelösa, Källby, etc., in this area, though the iconographic program is quite different); according to Ernst Fischer, the scenes/figures depicted are: 1)angel; 2)Christ enthroned; 3)St.Peter; 4)St.Michael; 5)animal; 6)Cleric; 7) Agnus Dei; 8) man with cross in hand. [="De rundbågiga fälten skiljas från hvarandra genom kolonetter. Inom fälten figurer: 1. Knäböjande ängel, som i händerna håller ett föremål. 2. Kristus tronande. 3. Petrus med nyckeln i handen och iförd mässkrud. 4. vS. Mikael med vågskålen. 5. Fyrfotadjur med svansen slagen i en ögla 0111 halsen. 6. Man med bok i vänster hand och ett bröd i den högra. Vid sidan ett altare med en kalk. 7. Agnus dei. 8. Man med korsstaf i handen, vid hans sida en lilja." Noted in Hallbäck (1971) and in Nordström (1984). Described and ilustrated in Dahlberg (1998). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920529F3] as a Skaragruppen baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century decorated with an arcade of eight round arches populated with scenes, figures and animals. The basin is raised on two (?) plain circular blocks, the lower narrower than the upper.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.565361, 13.45025

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 33′ 55.3″ N, 13° 27′ 0.9″ E

UTM: 33V 409849 6492697

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: 2

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted) / cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 62 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 65 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920529F3] / [measurements not taken by BSI?]

REFERENCES

Dahlberg, Markus, Västervik: AB CO Ekblad & Co Tryckeri, 1998

Fischer, Ernst, 1918

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; r["References"]

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984