Vreta kloster

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design element - architectural - column - 4 - clustered

Scene Description: a cluster of four columns with conical stems

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2003

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 September 2003 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreta_kloster_Babtismal_Font.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: of cruciform shape to match the basin

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 September 2003 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreta_kloster_Babtismal_Font.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2003

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 September 2003 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreta_kloster_Babtismal_Font.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: large ribbed pattern all around the basin and underbowl

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2003

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 September 2003 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreta_kloster_Babtismal_Font.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - north view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonnie Nord, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2018 by Jonnie Nord [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreta_kloster.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreta_kloster_Church_view.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Can Burcin Sahin, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2010 by Can Burcin Sahin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreta_Kloster_Kyrka,_Berg,_Linköping,_Östergötlands_län.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.foto, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2011 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreta_Klosters_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920729F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920729F2] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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view of font - elevation and section

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ullén & Ljungstedt, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 111) [https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1295675/FULLTEXT01.pdf] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2003

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2003 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreta_kloster_Babtismal_Font.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05693VRE
Church/Chapel: Vreta klosters kyrka
Church Location: 590 76 Vreta Kloster, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 13 600 65
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län
Directions to Site: Located off the E1046-E1123 crossroads, 10 km NW of Linköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Historical Region: Gullbergs härad, Östergötlands län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N transept (since 1917)
Date: ca. 1289?
Century and Period: 13th century (late)?, Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / Baegerbladsfonte / Muschelcuppen / Musselcuppor / Musselcuppstyp [SHM]
Cognate Fonts: Another quatrefoiled / cruciform font -that one with human head ornamentation- at nearby Askeby
Church Notes: original church probably wooden in the 11thC; the early-12thC [ca. 110?] monastery [nunnery?] church was a 'royal' church and was divided internally for the use as both monastery and parish church; it became fully parochial in the 16thC -- SK... states that the 12th-century Romanesque church here was an important one and may have been the predecessor of Linköping Cathedral
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Östergötland (1921- , Bd.II, hft. 1: 93, 112, 113, 116, 191) as a limestone baptismal font dating probably from 1289, the time of the building of Magnus Nilsson mortuary chapel; like the latter, it is believed to be the work of Gotland masons [dating a/p Roosval (1917: 32, 33) and Roosval (1918: 197ff)]; it consists of a cruciform (tetralobed) basin ornamented with a pattern of wide tall ribs like round arches; the pedestal base is shaped like a cluster of short columns topped with a cruciform platform on which the basin rests; the four columns are conical rather than cylindrical, their lower ends wider than their tops. [cf. Index entry for Askeby for another example of quatrefoiled / cruciform font in this area]. In Reutersvärd (1967). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920729F2] as a 'musselcuppstyp' baptismal font made of limestone in the late-13th century. Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003), where it is described as made of two blocks of different type of limestone, the basin being Gotland limestone whereas the base, now in two parts ["numera två delar"] is described as "ortocerkalksten" [the lower part of the base was a 1917 replacement]; the basin is decorated with convex ribs on the outside whereas the inner well has four concave lobes corresponting to the outer shape. No cover present. There is a later font of 1661 in this church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.482067, 15.517669
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 28′ 55.44″ N, 15° 31′ 3.61″ E
UTM: 33V 530187 6482498

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three [originally two?]
Font Shape: quatrefoiled / cruciform (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Drainage Notes: no lining [NB: the interior well of the basin appears to have an insert in it, probably to support the baptismal dish in use]
Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm* / 90 cm**
Basin Depth: 30 cm**
Basin Total Height: 54 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm* / 110 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Sveriges kyrkor: Östergötland (1921- , Bd.II, hft. 1: 116) / ** Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 111)

REFERENCES

Lindblom, Andreas, Sveriges kyrkor: Östergötland, Stockholm: Svenska teknologföreningen, 1921-1963
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
Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917
Ullén, Marian, Östergötlands medeltida dopfuntar, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet och författarna, 2003