Roma nr. Visby No. 1 / Sancta Maria de Gutnalia
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Results: 88 records
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church exterior - portal - door - detail
view of church exterior - south view - detail
view of church exterior - south view - detail
view of church exterior - southwest portal
view of church exterior - north portal - detail
view of church exterior - north portal - detail
view of church exterior - north portal - detail
view of church exterior - north portal - detail
view of church exterior - north portal - door - detail
view of church exterior - north portal - door - detail
view of church exterior - north portal
view of church exterior - northeast end
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - south view - detail
view of church exterior - southeast portal
view of church exterior - southeast end
view of church exterior - southwest portal - door - detail
view of church exterior - southwest portal - door - detail
view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
view of church exterior - southwest portal
view of church exterior - southwest end
view of church exterior - belfry
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - north portal - east side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexandru Baboş [Albabos], 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2010 by Alexandru Baboş [Albabos] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roma_kyrka.Gotland.kungahuvud.Nportal.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast portal - door - detail
view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail
view of church exterior - southeast portal
view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
view of church exterior - southwest portal
view of church exterior - belfry
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2007 by Wolfgang Sauber [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gotland-Roma_kyrka_01.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - detail
view of church interior - west end - organ
view of church interior - south aisle - looking east
view of church interior - west end - looking south
view of church interior - looking northeast
view of church interior - looking northwest
view of church interior - west end - organ
view of church interior - chancel - detail
view of church interior - chancel - detail
view of church interior - nave - looking northwest
view of church interior - pulpit - detail
view of church interior - pulpit
view of church interior - chancel
view of church interior - Holy Rood
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - west end
view of church interior - stone
view of church interior - stone
view of church interior - stone
view of church interior - stone
view of church interior - stone
view of church interior - stone
view of font in context
view of church interior - detail
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - pulpit - detail
view of church interior - pulpit - detail
view of church interior - pulpit
view of church interior - altar and retable
view of church interior - pulpit - detail
information
Scene Description: on the contents of the small lapidarium at the northwest end of the north aisle -- the information includes a note on the old font base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of base - northwest side
view of base - south side
human figure - head
view of base - southeast side
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches
view of base - south side
animal - mammal - lion - protome
Scene Description: this is one, located at the northeast corner, has survived; damaged as it is, it shows the fine and complex quality of the carving
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of base - north side
view of base - east side
view of base - southeast side
view of base - south side
view of base - east side
design element - motifs - rope moulding
design element - motifs - roll moulding
animal - mammal - lion - protome
view of base
information
information
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05345ROM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Date Visited: 2012-08-19; 2018-05-23
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiarius group [Roosval]
Church / Chapel Name: Roma kyrka
Font Location in Church: [fragment reported as found in the churchyard -- now inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle]
Church Address: Roma kyrka, 622 54 Romakloster, Sweden
Site Location: Gotland, Gotlands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) local road I608, E of county road 143, 15 km ESE of Visby
Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Roma församling
Historical Region: Gotlands norra härad, Dede ting, Gotlands län
Additional Comments: damaged font: only the base remains; badly damaged and broken vertically into two halves
Font Notes:
Click to view
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (1925- ) as an object found in the churchyard ["på kyrkogården"]; it was identified in Roosval (1926) as probably the base of a baptismal font from the Bestiarius group and dated to mid-12th century [NB: the early datings of fonts in Roosval have been revised later, even by himself]. On-site notes: the base is round-to-square, with a thick roll moulding on the upper part, and a large acanthus vine with arum bunches on some of the sides; below it is a rope moulding; two of the angles of the lower square volume are now broken off; on the remaining two, one is a lion protome of exquisite carving quality; the other appears to be a lion's head. The whole base is a fine work by an accomplished master. This fragment may be all that remains of the original font of the early church here. [cf. Index entry for Roma No. 2 (Gotland) for a later font in this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 34V 346835 6379096
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.528431, 18.441958
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 31′ 42.35″ N, 18° 26′ 31.05″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: one (fragment)
Font Shape: missing
Basin Interior Shape: missing
Basin Exterior Shape: missing
Drainage System: centre hole in base
Drainage Notes: [basin missing]
Height of Base: 37 cm
Square Base Dimensions: 65-69 x 73-75 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
REFERENCES
- Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990, Bd. I, hft. 5: 578 and pl. 670 on p. 583
- Roosval, Johnny, Den gotländske ciceronen: vägvisare genon den gotländska konsthistorianmed huvudvikten lagd på medeltida kyrkokunst, Stockholm: Gotlands turistföreningen, 1926, 1950, p. 124
- Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918, p. 139, 140, 141 and Abb. 163, 164