Buttle
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view of font
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view of font and cover - upper view
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view of font and cover - northwest side
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view of font and cover - north side
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view of font and cover - east side
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view of font and cover - northwest side
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: showing the centre drain hle
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
Scene Description: the lower part narrowing toward the base -- seen here on the northwest side of the basin
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view of basin - north side
Scene Description: showing the damage and repairs on this side
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view of basin - east side
Scene Description: showing the damage and repairs on this side
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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
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view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail
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view of church exterior - northeast end
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - east end - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southeast portal
Scene Description: opening into the chancel
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view of church exterior - southwest portal
Scene Description: opening into the nave
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: opening into the tower space
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
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view of church exterior - tower - southwest view - detail
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - chancel - south side - painting - detail
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view of church interior - chancel - south side - painting - detail
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view of church interior - chancel - south side - painting - detail
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view of church interior - chancel - arch - southwest side - painting - detail
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view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail
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view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail
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view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail
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view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail
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view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - chancel - east side - detail
Scene Description: Described in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet entry: "Kalkmålning framställande en hand med en trädgårdskanna vattnar en dödskalle med korsade kotor, bakom vilka ett blomster spirar upp. I nisch i korets östra vägg. Från 1700-talet."
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: 15thC?
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view of font and cover in context - northwest side
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view of church interior - Holy Rood
Scene Description: 12thC?
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - sacristy - doorway
Scene Description: at the east end of the church, north side
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: toward the east end of the church interior, south side, by the pulpit and the southeast portal
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view of base - detail
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view of base - detail
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view of font cover
Scene Description: showing the painted underside of the font cover
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human figure - male - head - crowned
Scene Description: no facial hair but wearing long hair to the jowl -- on the west-northwest side of the base
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human figure - male - head - crowned
Scene Description: no facial hair but wearing long hair to the jowl -- on the west-northwest side of the base
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animal - mammal - lion - head
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animal - mammal - lion - head
Scene Description: showing its fangs on the northeast side of the base
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human figure - male - head - wearing hood
Scene Description: no facial hair; fitted hood, no peak -- on the southeast of the base
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view of base - east side
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05385BUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2018-05-27
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Calcarius II? (base only)
Cognate Fonts: The upper base appears similar to the one in the Gammelgarn font (Gammelgarn is just a few kms east of Buttle)
Church / Chapel Name: Buttle kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the chancel arch, S side
Church Notes: original church late-12thC; modified 13th, 14th, 19thC
Church Address: Buttle kyrkby, 622 48 Romakloster, Gotland, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 498-510 35
Site Location: Gotland, Gotlands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located between highways 142 (W) and 143 (E), about 30 km ESE of Visby
Ecclesiastic Region: Visby Stift, Vänge församling
Historical Region: Gotlands norra härad, Halla ting, Gotlands län
Additional Comments: damaged font (basin broken horizontally below the rim) / painted font (remains of colour present)
Font Notes:
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Described in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. IV, hft. 3: 402-405) as a limestone cylindrical mounted baptismal font dated to the early 13th century; the base is identified as being by Calcarius II, while the basin is from another workshop; the basin has a blind arcade all around, the lower part narrowing toward the centre of the lower base. The base is a conical pedestal plain except for three large protruding heads: a lion's, with open mouth showing its fangs, a man's, wearing a crown and hair the length of his jowl; the third is also the head of a man wearing a hood that wraps around his jowl; the font consists of three blocks, the basin and the two-part base; the basin is broken horizontally all around the side, a few inches below the upper rim. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910814F1] as a baptismal font made of limestone in the mid-13th century by a Gotland workshop; the SHM entry cites Svanberg's (1995) attribution to Calcarius. Flat round wooden cover with knob handle.
COORDINATES
UTM: 34V 351590 6364910
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.402732, 18.529779
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 24′ 9.72″ N, 18° 31′ 47.64″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base?
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 7-7.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm* / 62.5 cm** / 63 cm*** / ****
Basin Depth: 25-28 cm*
Basin Total Height: 39-40 cm* / 41 cm***
Height of Base: 46 cm* / 46 cm***
Font Height (less Plinth): 85-86 cm* / 92-94 cm** / 87 cm*** / ****
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. IV, hft. 3: 403) / *** Fåhraeus' (1974: 61) / **** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910814F1]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: a plain flat wooden lid appears covering the font in a 1941 photograph (Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. IV, hft. 3: pl. 432 on p. 391)); the lid, present in our 2018 visit, is painted and has a knob handle
REFERENCES
- Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974, p. 59, 60, 61
- Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990, Bd. IV, hft. 3: 402-405