Akeback / Akebäck

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 16

Scene Description: each corresponding to a basin side; they could be also described as a ribbed pattern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - nail-head

Scene Description: a thin band of these all around below the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: notice the paint on the pedestal base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

information

Scene Description: available inside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

information

Scene Description: on-site notes

Image Source: field-notes taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Scene Description: on-site notes

Image Source: field-notes taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Scene Description: the former north portal?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: sculpture by the southeast door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: opening into the chancel; notice the odd-size stone at the base of the right side, and the carving on it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Scene Description: a self-portrait of a mason?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Scene Description: NB: the image shows the carving rotated 90 degrees to the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Scene Description: opening into the tower space

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: in the late-1800s

Image Source: digital image of an albumen print of the late-1800s taken by an unknown photographer; in Riksantikvarieämbetet http://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200012875 [accessed 3 September 2012]

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

Scene Description: a blocked doorway on the south side of the tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - south side - portal

Scene Description: in a 1924 photograph of this portal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akebäcks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200012912.jpg] [accessed 14 July 2018] the [a?] wooden door was hung on the outside hinges that are visible here on the right, but no longer used

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - south side - portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - alms box? / stoup?

Scene Description: it may have been originally a holy-water stoup but it appears to have been turned into an alms-box at a later date

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - west end

Scene Description: beneath the tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910509F1] [accessed 8 April 2021]

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view of font - upper view

Scene Description: the rope hanging on the left gives away the location of the font beneath the tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: wall-mounted on the east side of the south door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05343AKE

Church/Chapel: Akebäcks kyrka

Church Location: Akebäck, 621 92 Visby, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located just SE of Follingbo, near Roma, about 8 km ESE of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift

Historical Region: Dede ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower

Century and Period: 13th century (late?) / 16th century[composite font?], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / müschelcuppatyp

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. I, hft. 5: 547-548): late 13th-century limestone goblet-shaped baptismal font; althouth it appears round at first sight, it actually has sixteen sides, each matching the broad rib or arch of the side and underbowl; round pedestal, slightly conical, and round lower base. The upper rim side of the basin has a narrow band of nail-head pattern all around. In Reutersvärd (1967). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910509F1] as a baptismal font of the 'musselcuppstyp' made of limestone in the second half of the 13th century. On-site notes: the font does not appear to fully match the types of 'musselcuppa' fonts of the 13th century; is it a 16th-century font?; there are no traces of hardware in the upper rim of the basin; the font is painted; if the basin is 13th-century as claimed in SK [cf. supra], the base may be of a later date]. [NB: Paradise font? or related?: the shape of the basin, the large diameter, etc. makes it a variant from the typical fonts of that group]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.547431, 18.392458

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 32′ 50.75″ N, 18° 23′ 32.85″ E

UTM: 34V 343953 6381323

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: 3

Font Shape: polygonal (mounted) (16 sides)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal (16 sides)

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 9.5-11 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 76 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 96-98 cm* / 96 cm****

Basin Depth: 26-27 cm*

Basin Total Height: 42-43 cm* / 41 cm**

Height of Base: 58-60 cm* / 58 cm**

Height of Central Column: 34

Font Height (less Plinth): 97-100 cm* / 99 cm** / 97.5 cm*** / 98 cm****

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Fåhraeus (1974: 57) / *** Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. I, hft. 5: 548) / **** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910509F1]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Heales, Alfred, The Ecclesiology of Gotland, Other than Wisby ; and the Churches of Bornholm, London: Printed in Roworth & Co., Newton Street, High Holborn, 1889

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

Reutersvärd, Patrik, "Synpunkter på den tidiga medeltidens polykromi", Jahlarkirja joka omistetaan Lars Petterssonille hänen 60-vuotispäivänään 12 elokuuta, 1978