Vastergan / Västergarn

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: rounded buttress-like endings at the angles of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - ball-in-socket

Scene Description: from a distance they look like hooded heads, but they are not; the closest motif would probably be the ball-in-socket

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: on the 'face' of the ball-in-socket motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: incised on many surfaces of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: incised on the sides of the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of base

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - interior - detail

Scene Description: notice the carving pattern on the inner sides of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - belfry - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Scene Description: capital on the west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Scene Description: capital on the east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west end - detail

Scene Description: by the west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: above the arch-head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - dorr - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship - detail

Scene Description: donated in 1637 by harbourmaster Marcus Schröde

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - alms box - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - alms box - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: sandstone retable dated 1641 featuring the Sacrifice of Abraham; the finial has the crest of Christian IV

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - west end - gallery and organ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05362VAS

Church/Chapel: Västergarns kyrka

Church Location: 622 30 Västergarn, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotllands län

Directions to Site: Located off (E) highway 140, on the W coast of the island, about 25 km S of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Sanda, Västergarn och Mästerby församling

Historical Region: Banda ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner

Date: 1592

Century and Period: 16th century(late), Late Gothic

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland as a sandstone baptismal font of the medieval type but dated by an inscription to 1592; it has foliage ornamentation on the basin; made of two blocks, no drain. Described and illustrated in Fåhraeus (1974): the basin has a square plant with rounded buttressed corners (each with a small hole in its top), with incised floral ornamentation on many of its surfaces; there is a ribbed/foliage pattern on the hemispherical underbowl; the base plant is also square, with eight fleur-de-lis motifs -four large, four small- on the narrow upper part, while the lower end is plain with vertical sides. [NB: the remnants of the original Romanesque church here are located just north of this church; the present building dates from the mid-13th century -- we have no information of the font(s) of the earlier and/or original church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.440833, 18.151

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 26 '27 "N, 18° 9' 03.06" E

UTM: 34V 329011 6370043

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 7-17 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 52-53 cm [widest]

Diameter (includes rim): 67-87 cm [narrowest-widest]

Basin Depth: 25-26 cm

Basin Total Height: 54-55 cm

Height of Base: 62-63 cm

Height of Central Column: 43 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 116-117 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site [NB: measurements in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. III, p. 174) and Fåhraeus (1974: 61) vary slightly]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: carved on two sides (N-W) of the basin

Inscription Text: 1) "ANNO 1.5.9.2." 2) "ANNO -1-5-9-2 / H-N-I-H [the last H has Runic-like stems]"

Inscription Source: 1)Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. III, p. 174) -- 2)BSI on-site

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