Gardstanga / Gårdstånga

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B01: Old Testament - Genesis - the Flood and destruction of mankind - story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17)

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

B02: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Exodus - crossing of the Red Sea - Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea - Pharaoh and his army drown

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Circumcision of Christ

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

B04: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

B05: New Testament - John the Baptist - baptism of Jews

Scene Description: John, 3:22ff - a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Baptism scene - in a font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

B07: New Testament - Acts - Philip baptises the eunuch

Scene Description: Acts, 8:27-38 - a/p identification in Bach-Nielsen

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

B08: scene [unidentified]

Scene Description: an arm with a club strikes at a snake in the ground

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

head

Scene Description: on the buttresses on the basin corners, human and animal heads

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

human figure - standing - 8?

Scene Description: at the angles

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: with the baptismal dish removed

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - underbowl

Scene Description: decorated with many and varied motifs

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: with the baptismal dish in it

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: with the baptismal dish removed

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover on the left [north], the pulpit on the right [south]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 2002 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

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view of font base

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view of font cover

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05270GAR

Church/Chapel: Gårdstånga kyrka

Church Location: Utvägen 9, Gårdstånga, 241 31 Eslöv, Sweden -- Tel.: 0413-34 70 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Skåne, Skåne län

Directions to Site: Located 10-12 km ENE of Lund up the E22, in the municipality of Eslöv

Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift

Historical Region: Lunds kn, Skåne län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, north side, to the left of the main altar

Date: 1628

Century and Period: 17th century(early), Baroque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Jakob Kremberg

Cognate Fonts: Font at Sankt Petri kyrka, Malmö (?)

Church Notes: original church 12th-13thC; expanded 15th and 16thC; major restoration 1888-1889

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Octagonal mounted baptismal font ornamented with scenes, figures, etc.; equally designed and ornamented canopy cover; appears to be made of wood; the base has a central core with tall figures at the corners [source: Södeberg, 1987: 138 ill.]. Described and partially illustrated in Bach-Nielsen (1998: 111-113) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font made in 1628 by Jakob Kremberg. Bach-Nielsen (ibid., p. 112) identifies the scenas on the basin sides as: 1)the Flood; 2)conflated scene: Moses crosses the Red Sea while the Pharaoh and his army drown; 3)circumcision of child Christ; 4)baptism of Christ; 5)baptism scene related to John 3:22ff; 6)baptism of adults related to Acts 8:11; 7)Bach-Nielsen describes this scene as "hofmandes dåb" [=baptism of the courtier] (ibid., p. 112) and gives "Apg. 8-28" [=Acts 8:28] as reference -- NB: this must be a reference to the eunuch, "a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for the worship" (Acts 8:27), whom Philip baptises in Acts 8:38: "and they went both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him." All scenes are enclosed in picture-frame borders, each to a side of the basin [side 8 not described but contains an oval cartouche frame in which an arm holding a club strikes a snake in the ground], and separated by buttress-like protrusions at the corners; these are ornamented with heads and foliage, all very Baroque, nowhere a plain surface to be found on it. The base has a carved and ornamented central core as well as standing figures at the corners.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.759167, 13.3275

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 45′ 33″ N, 13° 19′ 39″ E

UTM: 33U 395048 6180542

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, oak?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1926-1965

Bach-Nielsen, Carsten, "Efterreformatoriske døbefonte", 1995-1996, 1998, pp. 101-118; r["References"]

Söderberg, Margareta, Sverige Bonniers kulturguide, Stockholm: Bonniers, 1987