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view of font - east side
Scene Description: the 17thC font
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view of font - south side
Scene Description: the 17thC font
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design element - motifs - circle - linked circles - quartered circle
Scene Description: painted on
view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - tower - north portal - detail
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view of church exterior - tower - north portal
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: this church has only one portal on the south side; it opens into the nave
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view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal - detail
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view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal - detail
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view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal - detail
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view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal - door - detail
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view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal - door
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view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal
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view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - apse - detail
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - tower - south side - detail
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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 - door - detail
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view of church exterior - portal
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view of church exterior - tombstone - Runic inscription
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view of church exterior - gate - detail
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the south portal is from the original mid-11th century church
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2011 by Newcastle2 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sproge_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 21 December 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - tombstone
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view of church interior - nave - tombstone
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view of church interior - nave - tombstone
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view of church interior - chancel
Scene Description: the top of the 17thC font is visible in the bottom-left corner
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - stone
Scene Description: former Runic stone later used as based for the piscina, hence the drain hole in it
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Runic stone hanging on the north wall, west end
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - tombstone - Runic inscription - detail
Scene Description: Runic stone to the mid-11th century; re-cycled as a piscina, hence the carved basin and drain hole
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view of church interior - tombstone - Runic inscription - detail
Scene Description: Runic stone to the mid-11th century; re-cycled as a piscina, hence the carved basin and drain hole
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view of church interior - tombstone - Runic inscription - detail
Scene Description: Runic stone to the mid-11th century; re-cycled as a piscina, hence the carved basin and drain hole
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view of church interior - tombstone - Runic inscription - detail
Scene Description: Runic stone to the mid-11th century; re-cycled as a piscina, hence the carved basin and drain hole
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view of church interior - tombstone - Runic inscription
Scene Description: Runic stone to the mid-11th century; re-cycled as a piscina, hence the carved basin and drain hole
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view of font in context
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view of church exterior - tombstone - Runic inscription
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view of church exterior - tombstone - Runic inscription
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view of church exterior - tombstone - Runic inscription
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Scene Description: related to the former Runic stone later used as based for the piscina, hence the drain hole in it
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information
Scene Description: posted inside the church; dates the Runic stone to the mid-11th century, and notes that it was re-cycled as a piscina, hence the carved basin and drain hole
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design element - motifs - circle - linked circles - quartered circle
Scene Description: several of them
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symbol - fruit - grapes
Scene Description: painted on
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information
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Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 24 May 2018 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05373SPR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2012-08-21; 2018-05-24
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid?), Baroque
Cognate Fonts: Many other fonts of this style and period are found on Gotland
Church / Chapel Name: Sproge kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave, beneath the chancel arch
Church Address: Sproge, 623 44 Klintehamn, Sweden
Site Location: Gotland, Gotlands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the SW side of the island, about 40 km S of Visby
Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Sproge församling
Historical Region: Hablinge ting, Gotlands län
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here) -- painted font (the 17thC one)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd, VIII, hft. 2: 58-59, 77) as a sandstone baptismal font of the mid-17th century made in the south of the island; the font is of a type commonly found on the island: shallow basin with quartered-circle motifs raised on a baluster pedestal stem with similar ornamentation and grape bunches; the lower base or plinth is round. The font is painted. Though much re-built, the church goes back to the 11th century, but we have no information on the font of the medieval church here.
COORDINATES
UTM: 34V 331750 6349064
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.253625, 18.210903
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 15′ 13.05″ N, 18° 12′ 39.25″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: round, mounted -- pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 14 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 36 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 64 cm
Basin Depth: 9 cm
Basin Total Height: 20 cm
Height of Base: 70 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 106-107 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
REFERENCES
- Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990, Bd, VIII, (hft. 2: 58-59, 77)