Sproge

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design element - motifs - circle - linked circles - quartered circle

Scene Description: painted on

design element - motifs - circle - linked circles - quartered circle

Scene Description: several of them

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

information

Scene Description: related to the former Runic stone later used as based for the piscina, hence the drain hole in it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

symbol - fruit - grapes

Scene Description: painted on

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - apse - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - gate - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: this church has only one portal on the south side; it opens into the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the south portal is from the original mid-11th century church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2011 by Newcastle2 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sproge_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 21 December 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tombstone - Runic inscription

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - tombstone - Runic inscription

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - tombstone - Runic inscription

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - tombstone - Runic inscription

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - tombstone - Runic inscription

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal - door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - north side - portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - south side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: the top of the 17thC font is visible in the bottom-left corner

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Runic stone hanging on the north wall, west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - stone

Scene Description: former Runic stone later used as based for the piscina, hence the drain hole in it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - east side

Scene Description: the 17thC font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of font - south side

Scene Description: the 17thC font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2018 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05373SPR

Church/Chapel: Sproge kyrka

Church Location: Sproge, 623 44 Klintehamn, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotllands län

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave, beneath the chancel arch

Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Baroque

Cognate Fonts: Many other fonts of this style and period are found on Gotland

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.253625, 18.210903

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 15′ 13.05″ N, 18° 12′ 39.25″ E

UTM: 34V 331750 6349064

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: round (mounted) -- pedestal font

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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