Stenkumla No. 1

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - tower - south view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05359STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Stenkumla kyrka
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] [medieval dedication]
Church Location: 621 95 Visby, Gotland, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Gotland, Gotlands län
Directions to Site: Located between highway 140 (W) and 142 (W), in the centre-west side of the island, about 8 km S of Visby
Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Stenkumla församling
Historical Region: Stenkumla ting, Gotlands län
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. III: 22 and pl. 10 on p. 11) as the surviving plinth of the earlier font. Also in Fåhraeus (1974: 111). [NB: cf. Index entry for Stenkuma No. 2 for a late 17th-century font also in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.54775, 18.268417
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 32′ 51.9″ N, 18° 16′ 6.3″ E
UTM: 34V 336534 6381651

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: [missing]
Basin Interior Shape: [missing]
Basin Exterior Shape: [missing]
Drainage Notes: [based on the evidence of the remaining plinth]

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