Kraklingbo No. 3 / Kräklingbo
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view of font and cover
view of font and cover - south side
view of font - south side
view of font - southwest side
view of font
Scene Description: notice the position of the side drain and drain dish in the plinth
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI
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view of font - west side
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view of font and cover - east side
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view of font and cover - south side
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view of font and cover - west side
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inscription
Scene Description: 1670 re-painted 1690
view of basin - interior
view of basin - interior - detail
Scene Description: the painted sides
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view of basin - interior
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design element - motifs
Scene Description: the combination of floral, fruit and such motifs on the basin and base sides
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view of font and cover in context - southwest side
view of font in context - southeast side
information
view of plinth - detail
view of font - detail
view of font - plinth
view of font cover
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angel - cherub - head - detail
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angel - cherub - head - 4
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inscription
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of plinth - detail
Scene Description: the drain chanel and dish
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information
information
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Image Source: field-notes taken 22 August 2012 by BSI [heading in notes mislabeled No. 2]
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information
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information
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02452KRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2012-08-22
Font Date: 1670
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century (late)
Cognate Fonts: Many other fonts of this type and date on the island
Church / Chapel Name: Kräklingbo kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave, beneath the chancel arch
Church Address: 574 Kräklingbo, 623 70 Katthammarsvik, Gotland, Sweden
Site Location: Gotland, Gotlands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the W side of the island, about 35 km ESE of Visby
Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Östergarns församling
Historical Region: Kräklinge ting, Gotlands län
Additional Comments: painted font
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. IV, hft. 4: 513, 515) as a sandstone baptismal font of the baluster-pedestal type dated by an inscription to 1670 (the same source explains that the original date on the font was 1670, but the "7" was painted over as a "9"; the ornamentation is Baroque with cherubs on the base. The wide plinth, which has a drain with a drain dish, is carved with the date 1695 (?), but may be older. The font cover, octagonal and with scroll crocketed ribs, was made by Jochim Sterling. from Visby, in 1687. [NB: cf. Index entry for Kräklingbo No. 1 for the possible remains of a medieval font in this location]
COORDINATES
UTM: 34V 362645 6369261
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.445222, 18.711278
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 26′ 42.8″ N, 18° 42′ 40.6″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system in the basin or base
Drainage Notes: side drain at the plinth level
Rim Thickness: 10-11 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 41 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 62-63 cm*
Basin Depth: 9-9.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 22-26 cm*
Height of Base: 76-79 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 101-103.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [two sets of measurements taken]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: basin side
Inscription Text: "1690" [i.e., 1670]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes for date discrepancy]
Inscription Source: Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. IV, hft. 1: 515)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1687 / late-17th century
Material: wood
Apparatus: none
Notes: octagonal wooden cover of the open-crown type, with crocketed scroll ribs, not unlike the Jacobean fonts of England. [Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. IV, hft. 4: 515)] -- The height of the cover is given as 96 cm.
REFERENCES
- Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990, Bd. IV, hft. 4: 513, 515