Mjallby / Mjällby
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B01: design element - architectural - buttress - human shape - 7
Scene Description: one, a seated (?) figure, at each angle of the main volume
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Image Source: digital photograph 19 July 2011 by Adville
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B02: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 7
Scene Description: very ornamented
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BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated
Scene Description: all around the upper side, just below the rim
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BBU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a romboid motif - 7
Scene Description: one on each panel bellow the crenellation
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LB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 7
Scene Description: short ones; one at each angle of the lower volume
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: "Mjällby kyrka, Sölvesborgs kommun, dopfunt"
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: "Mjällby kyrka från luften"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.Foto, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 29 September 2008 by L.G. Photo
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: "Mjällby kyrka, Sölvesborgs kommun"
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05761MJA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1620?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early)?
Church / Chapel Name: Mjällby kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: present church of 1788 replaced a 1100-century building -- SK informs that the old church was demolished in 1788 and a new one finished in 1796; the furnishings, including the font, were transferred to the new church.
Church Address: Kyrkvägen 4, 294 71 Sölvesborg, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 456 500 21
Site Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 123, S of Hwy E22, in the municipality and 9-10 km E of Sölvesborg, 25-30 km E of Kristianstad
Historical Region: Blekinge län, Listers haräd
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here)
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mjällby
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 170 and fig. 140 on p. 175; Bd. V: 84 and fig. 65 on p. 78) as a wooden heptagonal baptismal font of the 1620s, carved painted and gilded; it is shaped like a seven-sided cabinet; the upper rim has a thin protruding rim; below it, a crenellated pattern; the oblong vertical panels just below that are ornamented with a romboid plate at the centre of wich is a rosette; the main volume comes next with protruding buttresses in the shape of seated (?) figures, one at each angle; the sides proper are ornamented with an elaborately decorated blind arcade of round arches, all of which ends in several levels of mouldings; the third volume down is also buttressed, with high-relief geometric shapes on the panels.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 479933 6211750
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.050525, 14.677831
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 3′ 1.89″ N, 14° 40′ 40.19″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood, oak?
Font Shape: heptagonal, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm
Notes on Measurements: Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 170)
REFERENCES
- Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1926-1965, Bd. II: 170 and fig. 140 on p. 175; Bd. V: 84 and fig. 65 on p. 78