Ramdala
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05714RAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Church / Chapel Name: Ramdala kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Site Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Lunds stift
Historical Region: Blekinge län, Östra haräd
Font Notes:
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Described in Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965. Bd. I: 73) as a wooden bapttismal font dating from the first half of the 17th century; the font was restored and painted in the 1790s; a baldaquin on this font is illustrated in the same source (ibid., fig. 89, p. 79), an airy octagonal "crown-type" affair with the usual eight trusses around a central pole at the top, somewhat similar to the common Jacobean types of England; the cover is approximately the same age as the font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Diameter (includes rim): 79 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm
Notes on Measurements: Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926- . Bd. I: 72)
LID INFORMATION
Date: mid-17th century
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: canopy [cf. Font notes for details]
REFERENCES
- Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1926-1965, Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926- . Bd. I: 73 and fig. 89 on p. 79; Bd. V; 86