Strangnas No. 2 / Strängnäs

INFORMATION

FontID: 05651STR
Church/Chapel: Domkyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Södermanland, Södermanlands län
Directions to Site: Located about 55-60 km west of Stockholm, on the shothern shores of lake Malar
Font Location in Church: In the baptistery chapel
Century and Period: , Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Strängnäs type - Round bowl)
Described in Sveriges kyrkor: Södermanland (1964- , Bd. I, hft. 2: 463, 468) as a medieval baptismal font made of limestone; it was fitted with a new base by A Sandin of Stockholm and was placed in the baptistery at the time of the restoration (ibid., p. 510). [NB: another font -cf. Index entry for Strängnäs No. 1-, also medieval but made of bronze, is mentioned in this same source; it is located in the chancel]. Described in Reutersvärd (1976: 73, 82ff) as the prototype of a sub-group of the Paradise font group bearing its name. Also in Drake (2002: 183) categorised in the same way, but Berggren (2002: 151 fn18) indicates such an inappropriate assignation to a font that "is not made of Gotlandic stone". [NB: Drake (ibid. p. 143) writes that in this font "the top becomes a Gothic trefoil", but later in the same work (p. 183) he lists the font under the "Round bowl" type]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two? (modern base)

REFERENCES

Bohrn, Erik, Sveriges kyrkor: Södermanland, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1964-1979
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967