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Scene Description: local pamphlet

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast end

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - Holy Rood

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Scene Description: the Runic inscription is said to record the farmers who took part in the building of the church

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Scene Description: the Runic inscription is said to record the farmers who took part in the building of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: the Runic inscription is said to record the farmers who took part in the building of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: the Runic inscription is said to record the farmers who took part in the building of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: the Runic inscription is said to record the farmers who took part in the building of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: the Runic inscription is said to record the farmers who took part in the building of the church

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view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: the Runic inscription is said to record the farmers who took part in the building of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2018 by BSI

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view of church interior - west end

Scene Description: with the font on the left side of the image

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view of church interior - west end - painting - detail

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910813F2] [accessed 8 April 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05388ANG

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Anga kyrka

Church Location: Anga, 623 72 Katthammarsvik, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located off highway 146, on the W side of the island, 8 km NW of Katthammarsvik, about 35 km ESE of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby Stift, Östergarns församling

Historical Region: Kräklinge ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century (mid? late?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: ciborietyp [SHM] / Paradise font

Cognate Fonts: Ala, Kräklingbo No. 1, etc.

Church Notes: original church burned down; re-built 13thC; robbed by the Russians in 1717; restored 1946-1947, 1993; 13thC paintings by Halvard; 15thC paintings by the Passionsmästaren

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. IV, hft. 4: 580-581, 583) as a limestone cylindrical mounted baptismal font dated to the second half of the 13th century; the sides of the basin are slightly diagonal; the conical stem of the base has a ring moulding atop; the lower base splays out and then down with vertical sides. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910813F2] as a baptismal font of the 'ciborietyp'made of limestone in the mid-13th century by a Gotland workshop. [NB: a font cover originally from this church is now at the Gotlands Fornsal / Visby Museum]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.480361, 18.706444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 28′ 49.3″ N, 18° 42′ 23.2″ E

UTM: 34V 362487 6373181

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: 8.5 cm***

Diameter (inside rim): 67 cm***

Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm* / 84 cm*** / ****

Basin Depth: 23-24 cm***

Height of Basin Side: 25 cm***

Basin Total Height: 37 cm** / 36 cm***

Height of Base: 59 cm** / 60 cm***

Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm* / 96 cm** / 96 cm*** / ****

Font Height (with Plinth): 106-107 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. IV, hft. 4: 580) / ** Fåhraeus (1974) / *** BSI on-site / **** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910813F2]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1700s (finial dove is medieval)

Material: wood

Notes: low open-crown type with a medieval dove finial; now in the Gotlands Fornsal museum

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