Ekero / Ekerö

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view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ekerö kyrka [...] Dopfunt, fragment, 1100-talets slut."

Image Source: digital image [3604-118.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200115259.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of basin - fragment

the underbowl fragment of the medieval font has been integrated in the reconstructed font; the contour of the old fragment is discernible here

Scene Description: the underbowl fragment of the medieval font has been integrated in the reconstructed font; the contour of the old fragment is discernible here

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 October 2012 by Holger.Ellgaard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_Kyrka_2012_04.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption; "Ekerö kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydväst. Tuschteckning av Olof Hermelin, troligen från 1870-talet."

Image Source: digital image [htup070] made 20 December 2016 by Lars Kennerstedt of an 1870s ink drawing by Olof Hermelin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000543063.jpg] [accessed 21 December 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2011 by L.G. Foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ekerö [...] Ekerö kyrka och Asknäs herrgård (tid. Askanäs och Askenäs) i bildens mitt. Från öster."

Image Source: digital image [NF910179] of a 2 July 1991 photograph by Jan Norrman, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_-_KMB_-_16000700014582.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 November 2013 by Björn Strömfeldt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_kyrkogård..jpg] [accessed 22 December 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ekerö kyrka [...] Dopfat, mässing, 1600-talets mitt"

Image Source: digital image [3604-116.TIF] of a 1950 B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200115256.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: with the modern font in the chancel, south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2012 by Holger.Ellgaard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_Kyrka_2012_08.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2020]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2012 by Holger.Ellgaard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_Kyrka_2012_05.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and baptismal dish in context

Scene Description: the reconstructed font and the mid-17thC baptismal dish are located in the chancel, south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2012 by Holger.Ellgaard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekerö_Kyrka_2012_04.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 05849EKE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)

Church/Chapel: Ekerö kyrka

Church Location: Ekerö kyrkväg 5, 178 52 Ekerö, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 8 560 387 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Uppland, Uppsala län

Directions to Site: Located 3 km ESE of Närsta, 3-4 km WNW of Träkvista, about 15 km WSW of Stockholm

Historical Region: Färentuna härad, Stockholms län, Uppland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland (1921- , Bd. VI, hft. 1: 196 and fig. 181 on p. 198) the only remaining fragment of a late-12th century limestone baptismal font; it is the conical underbowl of a cylindrical basin, totally plain. The Kringla Riksantikvarieämbetet site [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000445018] [accessed 22 December 2020] notes: "I koret står dopfunten av kalksten. Dess mellandel härrör från 1150-1199 medan överdelen och foten höggs 1955. Dopfatet av driven och punsad mässing tillverkades 1651. I fatets mittfält framställs Evas skapelse. Dopskålen från 1600-talet, är utförd i tenn." The medieval fragment was integrated in the 1955 reconstruction of the font in this church; it is now part of the new font in use in the chancel. south side [cf. ImagesArea].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.272447, 17.7482

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 16′ 20.81″ N, 17° 44′ 53.52″ E

UTM: 33V 656613 6573619

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: one [fragment]

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Brandel, Sven, Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1921-1984