Buttle

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animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: showing its fangs on the northeast side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: the lower part narrowing toward the base -- seen here on the northwest side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

human figure - male - head - wearing hood

Scene Description: no facial hair; fitted hood, no peak -- on the southeast of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910814F1] [accessed 9 April 2021]

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910814F1] [accessed 9 April 2021]

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view of base - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of basin - east side

Scene Description: showing the damage and repairs on this side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the centre drain hle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of basin - north side

Scene Description: showing the damage and repairs on this side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: opening into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Scene Description: opening into the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - southwest view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: opening into the tower space

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood

Scene Description: 12thC?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - arch - southwest side - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - east side - detail

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."

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."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - south side - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - south side - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - south side - painting - detail

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 east

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 - south side - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: 15thC?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - sacristy - doorway

Scene Description: at the east end of the church, north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910814F1] [accessed 9 April 2021]

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view of font and cover - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of font and cover - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of font and cover - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of font and cover - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of font and cover - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: showing the painted underside of the font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05385BUT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Buttle kyrka

Church Location: Buttle kyrkby, 622 48 Romakloster, Gotland, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 498-510 35

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the chancel arch, S side

Century and Period: 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 Notes: original church late-12thC; modified 13th, 14th, 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.402732, 18.529779

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 24′ 9.72″ N, 18° 31′ 47.64″ E

UTM: 34V 351590 6364910

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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

Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990