Ramdala

INFORMATION

FontID: 05714RAM
Church/Chapel: Ramdala kyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län
Directions to Site: Located in the Lunds stift
Historical Region: Blekinge län, Östra haräd
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century(early),
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
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