Bal / Bäl

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the mark or damage at the center of the inner basin is not related to the drain (there is none) but to a flaw in the stone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - Runic stone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - Runic stones

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: the lychgate in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - lych-gate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - lych-gate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - maypole

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: in the late late-1800s

Image Source: digital image of an albumen print of the late 1800s in the Riksantikvarieämbetet [http://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200016094] [accessed 9 September 2012]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior - southeast end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: showing the southeast portal; it opens into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Scene Description: showing both portals on the south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Scene Description: it opens into the nave no the south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: opens into the west end of the tower space

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - alms box

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - painting

Scene Description: above the choir and sacristy door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - south side - painting - St George on horseback with serpent - King David with harp on balcony

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: showing the font at the far end, across from the south door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the font in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail - St. George - praying Queen - praying King

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail - St. Martin? or Massacre of Innocents

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail - bishop

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail - bishop

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail - devils

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail - devils and milkmaids

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail - devils and milkmaids

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - southwest entranceway- detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910506F2] [accessed 9 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, beneath the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05357BAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Bäls kyrka

Church Location: Bäls kyrkby, Gute, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located off (S) highway 147, about 20 km E of Visby, towards the eastern side of the island

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby Stift, Väskinde församling

Historical Region: Gotlands norra härad, Bäls ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church. at the W end of the nave centre aisle, beneath the tower arch

Century and Period: 13th century (early) [Roosval], Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: ciborietyp [SHM] / Paradise font

Cognate Fonts: Elinghem, Lye, etc., also in Gotland

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. II: 184) as a limestone baptismal font of the early 13th century (cites Roosval's Steinmeister (1918: 208 and pl. 239) as source for the dating). Described and illustrated in Fåhraeus (1974) as a plain cylindrical mounted font with a conical pedestal base, quite similar to the ones from Elinghem, Lye, etc. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910506F2] as a baptismal font of the 'ciborietyp' made of limestone in the mid-13th century. On-site visit: the font is in good shape and totally plain except for the roll moulding atop the base; the base is of two blocks; the basin has no drain but it has stone flaw in the centre of the inner basin. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.64476, 18.63288

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 38′ 41.14″ N, 18° 37′ 58.37″ E

UTM: 34V 358716 6391627

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 59-60 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 75-76 cm* / 75 cm***

Basin Depth: 27 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 24 cm*

Basin Total Height: 34 cm* / 33 cm**

Height of Base: 62-64 cm*

Height of Central Column: 39 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 95.5-96 cm* / ***

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: measurements are a compositeof several takings by BSI] / ** Fåhraeus (1974: 52) / *** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910506F2]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, round and plain; modern

REFERENCES

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

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

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