Hemse

Results: 74 records

LBH01: animal - mammal - lion - head - with prey - human - head

on the northeast angle of the base [orientation is approximate] -- the prey is much damaged, but the head resembles the one on the southwest of the base

Scene Description: on the northeast angle of the base [orientation is approximate] -- the prey is much damaged, but the head resembles the one on the southwest of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: animal - mammal - lion - head - with prey - human - head

Scene Description: on the northwest angle of the base [orientation is approximate] -- the prey is damaged, but the eyes on the are still discernible

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: animal - mammal - lion - head - with prey - human - head

Scene Description: on the southwest angle of the base [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: animal - reptile - snake - head - with prey in its mouth - human prey

on the southeast angle of the base [orientation is approximate] -- like the other heads of this base, it has human prey in its mouth, but the shape of the head suggests a reptile

Scene Description: on the southeast angle of the base [orientation is approximate] -- like the other heads of this base, it has human prey in its mouth, but the shape of the head suggests a reptile

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBS01: human figure - warrior - with shield and spear - in a circle

Scene Description: on the east side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- the figure may be female

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBS02: animal - mammal - lion - passant - tail over its back - in a circle

Scene Description: on the north side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- lion with raised front paw

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBS03: Christ - Christ in Majesty - orant pose - on a rainbow - in a circle

on the west side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- there is no halo visible; the 'rainbow' consists of two arched lines; extremely crude rendition

Scene Description: on the west side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- there is no halo visible; the 'rainbow' consists of two arched lines; extremely crude rendition

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

LBS04: human figure - male - seated - with raised hand - with sword - in a circle

on the south side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- the right hand holds a sword; the left hand points up and right with the index finger

Scene Description: on the south side of the base [orientation is approximate] -- the right hand holds a sword; the left hand points up and right with the index finger

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - crocketed - columns with capitals

Scene Description: the arcade occupies the lower side of the basin and the underbowl; the capitals of the columns are foliated

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: several in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910815F2] [accessed 21 April 2021]

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

view of base - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the octafoil design of the basin, inside and out

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - gate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - lych-gate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Scene Description: the left (east) side capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Scene Description: the right (west) side capital -- unfortunately the head of this characteristic eagle has been broken off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Scene Description: detail of the original portal of the stave church that was replaced by the stone building

Image Source: drawing by Emil Ekhoff reproduced in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemse_portal.jpg [accessed 10 November 2012]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast porch

Scene Description: opening into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest porch

Scene Description: opening into the tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest porch - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - east view

Image Source: digital photograph 14 March 2020 by Bene Riobó [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cemiterio_de_Hemse_03.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hemse kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."

Image Source: digital image [498-9.TIF] of an undated [between 1 January 1880 and 31 December 1890] B&W photograph by S. Nilsson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemse_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200021875.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hemse kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst."

Image Source: digital image [498-4.TIF] of a 1913 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemse_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200021870.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church interior - Holy Rood

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: 18th-century retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - apse

Scene Description: showing the retable and the paintings

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - apse - painting - detail

Scene Description: this one right above the retable, on the apse wall

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - arch - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - arch - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - arch - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - arch - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - painting

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - inscription - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - inscription - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - inscription - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital image [498-72.TIF] of a 1901 B&W photograph by Ebba Flodman, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemse_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200022022.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church interior - painting

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: 18th-century retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: 18th-century retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image [498-148.TIF] of a 1915 B&W photograph by Einar Erici, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemse_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200022420.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910815F2] [accessed 21 April 2021]

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

view of font - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - south side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the northeast corner of the nave; obviously not its original position

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00997HEM

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Hemse kyrka

Church Patron Saints: St. Eligius [aka Éloi, Eloy, Loi]

Church Location: Storgatan 22, 623 50 Hemse, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 498 48 00 72

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotllands län

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the 142-142 crossroads, on the SE side of the island, about 45 km SE of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Alva, Hemse och Rone församling

Historical Region: Gotlands södra härad, Hemse ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: Located at the E end of the nave, north side, just west of the chancel arch

Century and Period: 12th century [base only] - 14th century [basin] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hegvald / Hegwald [base only]

Church Notes: an older stave church here was replaced by the present building -- the interior mural paintings were restored in the 20thC -- VERY IMPORTANT: the portals are not in their original position

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Roosval (1918) and in Reutersvärd (1967). Described and illustrated in Sveriges Kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. VI, hft. 3: 244-247, 267): "The baptismal font consists of parts from different periods [...]. The quatrefoil, richly decorated bowl dates from the 14th century, while the base, with the four projecting, grotesque heads, was made as early as in the 12th century. The Romanesque bowl was probably destroyed for some reason during repairs to the church, possibly when the vaulting was constructed in the nave at the end of the 13th century, after which a new bowl had to be made." The four spaces between the heads of the base are occupied by four circles containing three human beings and a lion, one in each [cf. Iconographic data area for details]. [NB: the shape of the basin is polylobed, with eight sides, although SK's description has "quatrefoil"]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910815F2] as a composite font consisting of a 12th-century sandstone base supporting a 14th-century limestone basin;

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.232942, 18.372969

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 13′ 58.59″ N, 18° 22′ 22.69″ E

UTM: 34V 341435 6346374

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (basin) and sandstone (base)

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: octafoiled (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: octafoiled

Basin Exterior Shape: octafoiled

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 10-11 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 57-65 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 80-86 cm* / 85 cm**

Basin Depth: 28 cm*

Basin Total Height: 45 cm*

Height of Base: 38 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 83 cm* / **

Font Height (with Plinth): 105 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: Sveriges kyrkor's and Fåhraeus' measurements vary slightly] / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910815F2]

REFERENCES

Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974

Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990

Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967

Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918