Roslagsbro No. 2 / Roslags-Bro

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: all around the sides of the bowl fragment

INFORMATION

FontID: 05798ROS
Church/Chapel: Roslagsbro kyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Stockholm, Stockholms län
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 76, 10-15 km N of Norrtälje
Historical Region: Norrtälje kn, Stockholms län, Uppland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1250?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten?
Cognate Fonts: Many other such in Gotland and southern Sweden
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland (1921- , Bd. II, hft. 2: 176 and fig. 147) as a "broken bowl of a Gothlandic baptismal font dating from about 1250"; the rim of this basin had been found serving as the frame for an aperture in the eastern gable of the church. "Presumably it had been ordered from Gothland while the church was being erected and had been broken during transportation" (ibid., p. 193). The sides of the basin fragment are ornamented with the wide ribbed pattern typical of the Paradise fonts. Described in Berggren (2002: 174 fn42) as the remains of a Gotlandic font in this locality. [cf. Index entry for Roslagsbro No. 1 for the baptismal font at this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (from Gotland)
Number of Pieces: one [fragment]
Font Shape: hemispheric [originally mounted]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 81 cm
Notes on Measurements: Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland (1921- , Bd. II, hft. 2: 176)

REFERENCES

Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002
Brandel, Sven, Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1921-1984