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animal - leg - 3

Scene Description: making up the base of the font

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design element - motifs - foliage

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - crucifix

Scene Description: 14th-century? -- Photo caption: "Lösens kyrka.Medeltida krucifix [...] Lösen church.Medieval crucifix"

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Lösens kyrka.Dopfunt av trä från slutet av 1500-talet [...] Lösen church. Baptismal font made of wood from the end of the 16th century"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05716LOS
Church/Chapel: Lösens kyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län
Directions to Site: Located 1 km E of Lyckebyvägen in Karlskrona, off the E22
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Blekinge län, Östra haräd
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(late?),
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Oddly-shaped baptismal font made of wood; it resembles one of the English "rim-buffet" octagonal covers listed in Bond (1908), except that it stands on three awkward-looking animal legs carved in wood. Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor (Blekinge (1926-1965) as a wooden baptismal font made of oak and dating to the end of the 16th century; octagonal body, its rectangular panels ornamented with foliage motif; it rests on three animal legs; pinted all over in bright colours.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.197011, 15.688186
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 11′ 49.24″ N, 15° 41′ 17.47″ E
UTM: 33V 542702 6228220

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, oak
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 67 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926- . Bd. I: 128)

REFERENCES

Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1926-1965