Stockholms-Nas No. 1 / Stockholms-Näs

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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: it appears to be part of the lower block

INFORMATION

FontID: 06019NAS
Church/Chapel: Stockholms-Näs kyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Uppsala, Uppsala län
Directions to Site: Located about 50 kms ENE of Stockholm; take the E18 from Stockholm up to the crossroads for Kårsta (left turn); take this deviation for a km or so up to Söderhall where you connect with the road to Asplund and Rimbo (direction north); Näs is about 6 kms up that rd.
Historical Region: Bro härad, Uppsala län, Uppland
Century and Period: 13th century (early), Romanesque
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland (1921- , Bd. VII, hft. 1: 180 and fig. 169 on p. 182) as the second of two baptismal fonts in this church [NB: not be confused with its homonym in Jamtland with a beautifully carved wooden font]. The source (ibid) identifies it as a composite font: the roughly cylindrical basin is made of limestone, while the round pedestal foot is sandstone, and gives the font at Toresund (Söderm.) and the basins of the fonts at Bromma and Haga (Uppland) as cognates.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (basin); sandstone (base)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 63 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland (Bd. VII, hft. 1: 180) *[the two blocks are made of different stone; the font may therefore be an illmatched composite, hence the height]

REFERENCES

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