Vasterhejde No. 1 / Västerhejde

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: atop the pedestal stem of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F3] [accessed 2 May 2021]

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design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: a thin one, all around the rim sides

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F3] [accessed 2 May 2021]

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design element - patterns - fluted - diagonal

Scene Description: all around the stem of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F3] [accessed 2 May 2021]

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: all around the basin and underbowl sides

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F3] [accessed 2 May 2021]

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view of church exterior - apse - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast end

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: the only portal on the south side; it opens into the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - southeast end

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

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view of church exterior - tower - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - tower - southeast side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - southeast side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerhejde kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."

Image Source: digital image [550-1.TIF] af an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerhejde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200032563.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

Scene Description: restored and recunstructed; in the Gotlands Fornsal, Visby [inv.nr. B832]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F3] [accessed 2 May 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the Västerhejde medieval font as displayed in the museum (Gotlands Fornsal, Visby)

Image Source: digital image [550-45.TIF] af a 1925 B&W photograph by Samuel Hedlund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerhejde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200032678.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05360VAS

Museum and Inventory Number: Gotlands fornsal, Visby

Church/Chapel: Västerhejde kyrka

Church Location: [church adress and coordinates] Västerhejde Annex 732, 621 99, Visby, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: The church is located off (SE) county road 140, just S of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift

Historical Region: Gotlands södra härad, Stenkumla ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1240?

Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / Baegerbladsfonte / Muschelcuppen / Musselcuppor / Musselcuppstyp [SHM]

Church Notes: original church 13thC; renovated 17thC; the Danish-style top of the tower is actually mid-19thC, about the same time that the southeast doorway was replaced by a large window; sacristy added 1880s

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. III: 59) as a two-piece limestone baptismal from the mid-13th century (dated to ca. 1240 by analogy to the west tower), now painted in light green, black and red, though the paint job is not original; the font had been buried until the 1850s in the churchyard and was mentioned in the 1652 inventory. This font was moved to the Gotlands fornsal museum [cf. infra]. It is either a Paradise font, or related to the group, with a hemispherical basin with large ribs, and a conical pedestal ornamented with diagonal fluting; unlike many of the fonts in this group, its ornamentation is rather irregular, the ribs are more like round arches and it has a rope motif below the rim side. The lower base on which it now stands is modern. In Reutersvärd (1967). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F3] as a 'musselcuppstyp' baptismal fonrt made of sandstone in the second half of the 13th century, now much restored/reconstructed and located in the Gotlands fornsal, Visby (inv.nr. B832). No cover present. [NB: cf. Index entry for Västerhejde No. 2 for a later, 17th-century font also in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.580556, 18.248056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 34′ 50″ N, 18° 14′ 53″ E

UTM: 34V 335464 6385350

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two (plus modern lower base)

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm** calculated

Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 62 cm* / 74 cm** / 72 cm***

Basin Depth: 26 cm*

Basin Total Height: 43 cm**

Height of Base: 28 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 69 cm* / 71 cm** [calculated] / 81 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. III: 59) / ** Fåhraeus (1974: 58) / *** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F3]

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

Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967

Roosval, Johnny, Medeltida kunst i Gotlands fornsal, Stockholm: A.-B. Gunnar Tisells tekniska förlag, 1925