Stenkumla No. 1

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05359STE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment

Date Visited: 2018-05-27

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Stenkumla kyrka

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] [medieval dedication]

Church Address: 621 95 Visby, Gotland, Sweden

Site Location: Gotland, Gotlands län, Sweden, Europe

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

Additional Comments: damaged / disappeared font: only the plinth remains of the old font

Font Notes: Click to view

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

UTM: 34V 336534 6381651

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.54775, 18.268417

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 32′ 51.9″ N, 18° 16′ 6.3″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: missing

Basin Interior Shape: [missing]

Basin Exterior Shape: missing

Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base

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, p. 111
Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990, p. 22 and pl. 10 on p. 11