Lot / Löt
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B: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the columns of the arcade, very stylised; some of them look like human eyes
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LBH01: cleric - monk - head - tonsured
Scene Description: one of two tonsured heads; this one on the northeast corner of the base
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LBH02: human figure - head - male
Scene Description: a smiling face on the southeast corner of the base
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LBH03: cleric - monk - head - tonsured
Scene Description: one of two tonsured heads; this one on the southwest sid of the base
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view of font - east side
Scene Description: the damaged basin much in evidence
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: Source caption: "Löts kyrka.Dopfunt i gotländsk kalksten från början av 1200-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson,Lindås, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2016 by Bernt Fransson,Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Löts_kyrka_02.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2017]
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view of basin - interior - drain
Scene Description: showing the off-centre hole and the cracked basin
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view of basin - interior
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - west tower - detail
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2009 by Taxelson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Löt_Öland_no-vy.JPG] [accessed 20 April 2017]
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of font in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson,Lindås, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2016 by Bernt Fransson,Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Löts_kyrka_03.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of base - southeast side
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of base - southwest side
Scene Description: one of the two tonsured heads is visible in the centre on the image
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view of base - northeast side
Scene Description: showing three of the four heads; the one in the middle is tonsured
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05253LOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2002-07-24
Font Date: ca. 1215-1225?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Löts nya kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SE corner of the nave
Site Location: Öland, Kalmar län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the H974, on the E side coast of the island, opposite Borgholm, just N of Egby
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Runstens härad, Öland
Additional Comments: recycled font: From 1770 to 1842 it supported a pulpit, and after that it was used in the churchyard as the base of sundial until 1923 when it was moved into the church." (Bostrom, ibid.)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Boström (1966- , Bd. II, hft. 2, p. 301ff): "The oldest preserved object in the church is a baptismal font of Gotland limestone [...] dating from c. 1215-1225. From 1770 to 1842 it supported a pulpit, and after that it was used in the churchyard as the base of sundial until 1923 when it was moved into the church." This limestone font is a "Gotland work related to the anonymous masters Calcarius Secundus and Globus" (ibid., p. 233, caption to the ill. on p. 232). The basin, that shows several bad cracks, is ornamented with a blind arcade of large round arches, the only ornamentation on them being the stylised foliage (?) motifs in the spandrels. The base is round but has four heads at 90-degree angles and ends in a square shape at the bottom; the heads appear to belong to monks and at least one of them shows a clear tonsure.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 611895 6309799
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.918333, 16.838056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 55′ 6″ N, 16° 50′ 17″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Gotland)
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm
Notes on Measurements: Boström (ibid., p. 302)
REFERENCES
- Boström, Ragnhild, Sveriges Kyrkor: Öland, Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstals förlag, 1966-, Bd. II, hft. 2, p. 232-233, 301ff