Langbro / Längbro

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

on the basin fragment
Scene Description: on the basin fragment

INFORMATION

FontID: 05496LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Museum and Inventory Number: Örebro läns Museum
Church/Chapel: orig. from the Längbro gamla kyrka [now in a museum]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Närke, Örebro län
Directions to Site: Located about 6 km WNW of Almby
Historical Region: Örebro stad, Örebro län, Närke
Font Location in Church: [now in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Närke (1939- , Bd. I, hft. 5: 821-822) as a basin fragment of the 12th-century limestone baptismal font from the Längbro gamla kyrka [=old church]; it was found in Örebro, Storgatan 29, in 1959. The fragment, the measurements of which are given as 43 cm (height), 63 cm (length) and 11 cm (width), shows foliage motif ornamentation and is now in the museum at Örebro.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: [fragment]
Notes on Measurements: [cf. Font notes for the size of the fragment]

REFERENCES

Lundberg, Erik, Sveriges kyrkor: Närke, Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstalts förlag (1939-1961); Almqvist & Wiksell (1970-1972), 1939-1972