Hejdeby / Heideby
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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view of basin and cover
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: showing the damage to the upper rim and the sides
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: all around the basin and underbowl
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI
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design element - motifs - scotia
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hejdeby kyrka. Länsväg 147 går förbi norr om kyrkan."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Norrman / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2019
Image Source: digital image [dbh17162] of a 17 August 1996 photograph by Jan Norrman in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hejdeby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000300024480.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - east view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2018 by BSI
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view of church exterior - southeast view - 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 - southwest view
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast portal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by BSI
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view of church exterior - southeast end
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view of church exterior - southwest portal
Scene Description: opens into the west of the nave; now the entrance in regular use
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital image [495-1.TIF] of a 1891 B&W photograph by Olof Sörling, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hejdeby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200021345.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2021]
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view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child
Scene Description: no longer inside the church, but at the Visby museum, where this photograph was taken in june 1997
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1997 by BSI
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pía bautismal da igrexa de Hejdeby, na illa sueca de Gotland."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bene Riobó, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2018 by Bene Riobó [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pía_bautismal_da_igrexa_de_Hejdeby.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2021]
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view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship
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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 - bench
Scene Description: a 'Gotland' bench
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view of church interior - bench
Scene Description: a 'Gotland' bench
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view of church interior - bench
Scene Description: a 'Gotland' bench
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view of church interior - chancel
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the 13th-century reredos habging from the chancel arch -- on the left is the 18th-century pulpit [not the usual location] -- on the right, showing above the bank of benches of the south side, is the font cover [not its original location]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121104100_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 13th-century reredos habging from the chancel arch -- on the left is the 18th-century pulpit [not the usual location] -- on the right, showing above the bank of benches of the south side, is the font cover [not its original location]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Wolfgang Sauber [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gotland-Hejdeby_kyrka_Innenraum.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2012]
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view of church interior - chancel - painting
Scene Description: St. Nicholas and St. Lawrence
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Wolfgang Sauber [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gotland-Hejdeby_kyrka_Wandmalerei_08.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2012]
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view of church interior - chancel - painting
Scene Description: St. Andrew?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2007
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view of church interior - nave - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2007
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view of church interior - chancel - painting
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view of church interior - chancel - painting
Scene Description: in the southeast corner
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view of church interior - chancel - painting
Scene Description: in the northeast corner
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view of church interior - chancel arch - painting
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view of church interior - choir - stalls?
Scene Description: restored sides of the old choir stalls?
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view of church interior - bench - Gotland bench - detail
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view of church interior - bench - Gotland bench - detail
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view of church interior - bench - Gotland bench
Scene Description: this design is often replicated for thrones in the Majestas Domini scenes and other enthroned figures on Gotland fonts
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, south side, by the chancel arch
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the location of the font is the same as 1891, 1922, etc., but the communion railing has been removed
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Image Source: digital image [495-50.TIF] of a 1968 B&W photograph by Eric Olsson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hejdeby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200021429.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2021]
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view of church interior - chancel
Scene Description: showing the font and cover on the right side of the image
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Image Source: digital image [495-29.TIF] of a 1922 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hejdeby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200021392.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2021]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in the south side of the chancel
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of font cover
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view of base - lower base
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: atop the pedestal stem of the base; painted blue
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design element - architectural - building - church
Scene Description: rising on the centre of the lid
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Scene Description: rising on the centre of the lid
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information
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Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 25 August 2012 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05400HEJ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2012-08-25; 2018-05-28
Font Date: ca. 1250?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / müschelcuppatyp
Cognate Fonts: Dalhem, Hall and other such fonts on the island
Church / Chapel Name: Hejdeby kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner of the nave
Church Notes: the church goes back to ca. 1200, but the present font is of a later date -- two sets of mural paintings discovered here in 1966-1971 renovation here; one from the 13thC, the other from the 15thC
Church Address: Hejdeby Norrbys 221, 621 76 Visby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 73 339 74 47
Site Location: Gotland, Gotlands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the local road I636, just S of county road 147, 8 km E of Visby
Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Hejdeby församling
Historical Region: Gotlands norra härad, Endre ting, Gotlands län
Additional Comments: painted font: a red wash covers most of it, with blue and white details / damaged font: upper rim -- disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Fåhraeus (1974) as a 13th-14th century baptismal font of the Paradise type: hemispheric basin ornamented with a ribbed pattern mounted on a conical stem with an upper ring moulding and a splayed lower base. Medieval wooden font cover with a church building in its centre; it resembles the one at Endre, but here the central tower is shorter, within the logical scale of the building. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910505F2] as a 'musselcuppstyp' baptismal font made of limestone in the second half of the 13th century; present paint not original. On-site notes: the font is covered in a reddish wash, with a few details in white and blue; there is damage to the upper rim of the basin. [NB: we do not have any information on the font of the original, ca. 1200, church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 34V 347312 6390446
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.630444, 18.442778
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 37′ 49.6″ N, 18° 26′ 34″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no drainage evident / no lining
Rim Thickness: 9 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 62-62.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm* / **
Basin Depth: 25-26 cm*
Basin Total Height: 31-32 cm*
Height of Base: 64-65 cm*
Height of Central Column: 39-40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [some measurements in Fåhraeus (1974) vary slightly] / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910505F2]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 13th-14th century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974, p. 55, 56, 66, 85, 127, 128, 129, 192
- Heales, Alfred, The Ecclesiology of Gotland, Other than Wisby ; and the Churches of Bornholm, London: Printed in Roworth & Co., Newton Street, High Holborn, 1889, p. 22
- Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967, p, 73ff
- Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918, p. 197ff