Appuna

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animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: lion passant to the left in the right aech facing another such in the left arch -- Source caption: "motställda lejon"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: lion passant to the right -- Source caption: "lejon"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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animal - mammal - quadruped - passant

Scene Description: Source caption: "lejonliknande djur"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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animal - mammal - quadruped - passant

Scene Description: Source caption: "lejonliknande djur"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns - columns with capitals

Scene Description: the top of the arches has been lost but what remains shows a well-defined arcade; the capitals are plain and there are no bases on the also plain columns

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - beaded-tape

Scene Description: each arch containing a large acanthus-like plant with leaves that overflow the frame of the arch, one from the front of the arch, another from behind the arch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - plant - acanthus?

Scene Description: Source caption: "bladornament, cuppans undersida"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: Source caption: "bladornament, skaft och cuppans undersida" -- the image shows a partial view of the underbowl and of the upper section of the pedestal base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: probably a photograph of one of two watercolours remaining of the old church before its demolition, kept in the sacristy of the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2003 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appuna_g_kyrka2.JPG] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2011 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appuna_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: interior of the late-19thC church: the late-17thC font is partially visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 January 2000 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appuna_3.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: probably a photograph of one of two watercolours remaining of the old church before its demolition, kept in the sacristy of the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2003 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appuna_g_kyrka1.JPG] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: interior of the late-19thC church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 December 2011 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appuna_8.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of font

Scene Description: the two parts now in the museum [SHM]; the lower base is said to be in Appuna, in the new church

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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view of font

Scene Description: the two parts now in the museum [SHM]; the lower base is said to be in Appuna, in the new church

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F6] [accessed 5 April 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06238APP

Museum and Inventory Number: Statens historiska museum, Stockholm

Church/Chapel: [originally from Appuna kyrka]

Church Location: Appuna, 590 21 Väderstad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 142 552 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län

Directions to Site: Appuna is located off (N) of tthe E4, 3-4 km NE of Väderstad, 10 km WNW of Mjölby and in its municipality

Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift

Historical Region: Göstrings härad, Mjölby kn, Östergötlands län

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiarius, Group 1

Church Notes: medieval (12thC?) church demolished 1886; new church inaugurated 1887

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Roosval (1917). Listed in Drake (2002: 141, 183) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period belonging to the Bestiarius workshop (Group 1); the basin has a "cylindrical upper part above a steeply sloping lower section [NB: the font is reported in the Statens Historiska museum of Stockholm]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F6] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the late-12th century; the basin is decorated with animal and foliage motifs [NB: the lower base of the old font appears to be in the new church at Appuna]. Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003) with date in the 13th century.. The serving font in the new church was made of red limestone in 1660 by Michael Hacke, of Skänninge. There are two baptismal dishes in use one made of brass in the 17th century, the other made of silver in 1963 and bearing the inscription "Låten barnen komma till mig".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.342667, 14.961361

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 20′ 33.6″ N, 14° 57′ 40.9″ E

UTM: 33V 497738 6466862

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 61 cm*

Basin Depth: 14 cm*

Basin Total Height: 32-34 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003)

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Ullén, Marian, Östergötlands medeltida dopfuntar, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet och författarna, 2003