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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05388ANG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2018-05-23
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid? late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: ciborietyp [SHM] / Paradise font
Cognate Fonts: Ala, Kräklingbo No. 1, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Anga kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
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
Church Address: Anga, 623 72 Katthammarsvik, Gotland, Sweden
Site Location: Gotland, Gotlands län, Sweden, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 34V 362487 6373181
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.480361, 18.706444
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 28′ 49.3″ N, 18° 42′ 23.2″ 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: no drainage system
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, p. 52, 113, 117, 121
- Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990, Bd. IV, hft. 4: 580-581, 583