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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

LBH01: cleric - monk - head - tonsured

Scene Description: one of two tonsured heads; this one on the northeast corner of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

LBH02: human figure - head - male

Scene Description: a smiling face on the southeast corner of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

LBH03: cleric - monk - head - tonsured

Scene Description: one of two tonsured heads; this one on the southwest sid of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

view of base - northeast side

Scene Description: showing three of the four heads; the one in the middle is tonsured

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

view of base - southeast side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

view of base - southwest side

Scene Description: one of the two tonsured heads is visible in the centre on the image

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - interior - drain

Scene Description: showing the off-centre hole and the cracked basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2009 by Taxelson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Löt_Öland_n.JPG] [accessed 20 April 2017]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

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 interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: 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 church interior - nave - looking west

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 font - east side

Scene Description: the damaged basin much in evidence

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Löts kyrka.Dopfunt i gotländsk kalksten från början av 1200-talet."

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 font in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05253LOT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Löts nya kyrka

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Öland, Kalmar län

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SE corner of the nave

Date: ca. 1215-1225?

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.918333, 16.838056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 55′ 6″ N, 16° 50′ 17″ E

UTM: 33V 611895 6309799

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-