Askeby No. 1

Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005

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Results: 17 records

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: all around, forming the lower base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920725F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920725F1] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - moulding and piping

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920725F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920725F1] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: at the lobes of the quatrefoiled stem

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920725F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920725F1] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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human figure - head - male - 4

Scene Description: one on the outer upper side of each of the lobes of the stem; they all appear to be male and individualised

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920725F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920725F1] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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human figure - male - head - bearded - 4

Scene Description: the beard extends all the way down the underbowl

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920725F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920725F1] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - bell tower

Scene Description: Source caption; "Askeby klosterruin, klocktornet, Askeby kyrka"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Magnus.bark, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2012 by Magnus.bark [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askeby-klosterruin.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - north view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lars Kennerstedt / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1992

Image Source: digital image [sd922017] of a photograph taken 17 June 1992 by Lars Kennerstedt, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askeby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000300012345.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - north view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2010 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askeby_kyrka11.JPG] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - north view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2010

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view of church exterior - north view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2010 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askeby_kyrka9.JPG] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - north view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2010 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askeby_kyrka10.JPG] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2005 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askeby_church_view.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: the red building on the left is the bell tower that remains from the 12thC(?) nunnery that co-existed with the parish church until the mid-16thC

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 December 2007 by Skvattram [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askebykyrka.JPG] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: with the font partially visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2009 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askeby_church_nave02.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font had been disused and placed in the porch or vestibule [vapenhuset] at the time while the later font was in use for baptisms at Askeby kyrka

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Image Source: digital image [bwr31624] of a B&W photograph taken 8 October 1945 by Berit Wallenberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askeby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000112986.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of font and baptismal dish

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2005 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Askeby_church_baptismal_font2.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05691ASK
Church/Chapel: Askeby kyrka
Church Location: Askeby, 585 62 Linghem, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 13 23 66 50
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 35, S of the E4, 16 km E of Linköping and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Historical Region: Bankekinds härad, Östergötlands län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SE corner of the nave [the font had been housed outside, in the porch [vapenhuset] for a time
Century and Period: 13th century (late?),
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland workshop / gotländsk verkstad [SHM]
Cognate Fonts: Another cruciform font -without the head motifs- at nearby Vreta kloster; a differently-shaped font with similar heads at Örberga
Church Notes: original church probably late-12thC as part of a nunnery complex that functioned until the mid-16thC; much damaged by fire in 1609
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Östergötland (1921- , Bd. I, hft. 1: 43, 44, 65) as a limestone baptismal font dating from the last half of the 13th century; it consists of a cruciform (tetralobed) basin that has a human head with a long beard in the convex part of the basin; the pedestal base is shaped like a cluster of short columns, each column corresponding to the lobe of the basin, and each ornamented with a human head on the outer upper side. Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920725F1] as a "gotländsk verkstad(?)" baptismal font made of limestone in the 12 th century. Although the tetralobed or quatrefoiled shape is not a unique design, it is not a common one in Sweden, least of all with the additional heads. Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003) as a baptismal font made from Gorland limestone by a local stone master of Östergötland in the mid-13th century: "Dopfunten i Askeby. Utförd i gotländsk kalksten men troligen av en i Östergötland lokalt verksam stenmästare. 1200-talets mitt. Detaljerna visar mans huvuden från cuppan respektive skaftet." Ullén & Ljungstedt (ibid.) show the font at Örberga as having similar elongated heads on the basin, but the shape of the Örberga font is totally different. [cf. Index entry for Skaby No. 2 for the later brass font in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.4091, 15.8572
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 24′ 32.76″ N, 15° 51′ 25.92″ E
UTM: 33V 550088 6474577

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoiled
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
Diameter (inside rim): 60-69 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm* (at its broadest) / 87-90 cm**
Basin Depth: 30-35 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 79 cm
Notes on Measurements: * Sveriges kyrkor: Östergötland (1921- , Bd. I, hft. 1: 44) / ** Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003)

REFERENCES

Lindblom, Andreas, Sveriges kyrkor: Östergötland, Stockholm: Svenska teknologföreningen, 1921-1963
Ullén, Marian, Östergötlands medeltida dopfuntar, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet och författarna, 2003