Flisby
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animal - bird - crane, heron or stork
Scene Description: its head bent down to ground level
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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animal - bird - eagle? - passant
Scene Description: seen here on the right; passant to the right
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - basilisk? - acanthus tongue - passant
Scene Description: seen here on the left; passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - quadruped - winged - acanthus tongue - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged lion - foliated tongue - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tongue - passant-regardant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns - columns with capitals
Scene Description: the capitals are stylised, wheel-like; the bottom of the columns has a door-like opening
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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design element - architectural - building - 4
Scene Description: tower-like; some damaged
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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design element - motifs - braid
Scene Description: all around
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Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: they are partly visible here on the underbowl
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Image Source: digital image [2557-019.TIF] of a 1910 B&W photograph by Pehr Gunnar Vejde, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flisby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200071579.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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design element - motifs - foliage or plant
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Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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design element - motifs - plant or tree - acanthus
Scene Description: inscribed in a semi-circle frame
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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design element - motifs - semicircle - bead, circle or dot
Scene Description: a frame inscribing the acanthus plant
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: housed in a tower-like building
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the ruins of the old church in 1938
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Image Source: digital image [11308-037.TIF] of a 1938 B&W photograph by Erik Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flisby_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200132590.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sinikka Halme, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2018 by Sinikka Halme [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flisby_church.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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view of church interior - looking northwest
Scene Description: both the font and the old retable were originally from the demolished medieval church; seen here in the mid-18thC church, towards the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Åke Johansson, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Åke Johansson in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/058734/images/58734_6343464] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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view of church interior in context
Scene Description: the ruins of the old church under excavation in 1934
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Image Source: digital image [11308-011.TIF] of a 1934 B&W photograph by Erik Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flisby_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200132562.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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view of church interior in context
Scene Description: the ruins of the old church under excavation in 1934
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Image Source: digital image [11308-012.TIF] of a 1934 B&W photograph by Erik Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flisby_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200132563.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image [2557-018.TIF] of a 1910 B&W photograph by Pehr Gunnar Vejde, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flisby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200071576.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910701F1#] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital image [2557-020.TIF] of a 1921 B&W photograph by Tord O:son Nordberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flisby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200071578.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06240FLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Flisby kyrka
Church Location: Flisby kyrby, 578 95 Flisby, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off local road F964, 6 km S of Aneby, 15 km NW of Eksjö, in the municipality and about 15 km NNE of Nässjö, about 25-30 km E of Jönköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Historical Region: Södra Vedbo härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the modern church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1150?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid / late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiariusgruppen Variant 4 [Borg] / Bestiarius [SHM] / Bestiarius - Group 1 [Drake]
Church Notes: only ruins left of the 12thC church; new church mid-19thC, re-built 2013
Font Notes:
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Noted in Blomqvist (1929). Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a 'Bestiariusgruppent Variant 4' font. Listed in Drake (2002: 183) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period belonging to the Bestiarius workshop (Group 1). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] as a Bestiarius baptismal font made of sandstone in the late-12th century decorated with an arcade of eight round arches containing different animals; rope moulding at the neck of the base; semi-circular panels on the round-to-square lower base with vegetal motifs; tiny buildings in the spandrels between the panels, at least one of them housing a human head. No cover present. [NB: the location of the font appears to have changed within the new church; it was shown early on at the east end, but ca. 2010 it is located by the old retable from the medieval church, towards the west end of the nave]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.761086, 14.842097
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 45′ 39.91″ N, 14° 50′ 31.55″ E
UTM: 33V 490604 6402123
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm* / 76 cm**
Basin Depth: 31 cm**
Height of Basin Side: 45 cm**
Basin Total Height: 57 cm** [45+12]
Height of Base: 32 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F1] / ** Borg (2002)
REFERENCES
Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929
Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002
Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002