Gammalstorp No. 2 (Blekinge)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05756GAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, base only
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Gammalstorps kyrka -- Orig. from the medieval church? [in the presbitery garden]
Font Location in Church: [in the rector's garden]
Church Address: Gammalstorps kyrkväg 66, 294 93 Sölvesborg, Sweden
Site Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the W end of local road K526 [aka Gammalstorps kyrkväg], 8 km NNE of Sölvesborg, on the former island of Kyrkön, W of the Vesan and highway E22
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Listers haräd
Additional Comments: abandoned font: only the base survives of a 13th-century font in the presbitery garden
Font Notes:
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Described in Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 137) as the base of a medieval baptismal font made of Gotland limestone located in the presbitery [i.e., rectory] garden.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 477042 6218143
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.107833, 14.630861
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 6′ 28.2″ N, 14° 37′ 51.1″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Gotland) (base only)
Number of Pieces: one [basin missing]
Height of Base: 28 cm
Notes on Measurements: Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 137) [NB: the diameter of this base is given as 69 cm]
REFERENCES
- Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1926-1965, Bd. II: 137 and fig. 120 on p. 138