Skarkind / Skärkind
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Results: 19 records
animal - fabulous animal or monster - avian - 2
Scene Description: Source caption: "motställda fåglar"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920720F1] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified
Scene Description: several, in different positions and guises
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920720F1] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 8 - beaded-tape - columns - columns with capitals
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920720F1] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920720F1] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920720F1] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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design element - motifs - plant - acanthus?
Scene Description: notice the damage to the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920720F1] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - circular
Scene Description: forming link-circle patterns a round the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920720F1] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920720F1] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Skärkind gravkapell (gamla kyrka) från nordöst" -- the remains of the medieval church were turned into a cemetery chapel in the late-18thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [bwb30006] of a B&W photograph taken 30 August 1930 by Berit Wallenberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skärkind_gravkapell_(gamla_kyrka)_-_KMB_-_16001000082004.jpg] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2009 by Skvattram [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SkarkindskyrkaSE.JPG] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Skärkinds gravkapell (gamla kyrka) Sydfasaden. Kungahuvud?"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lars Kennerstedt / Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1992
Image Source: digital image [sd922014] of a photograph taken 17 June 1992 by Lars Kennerstedt, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skärkinds_gravkapell_(gamla_kyrka)_-_KMB_-_16000300012341.jpg] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: the modern church of 1836
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.foto, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2011 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skärkinds_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the font partially visible at the southeast corner is the later font of 1679 [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200419027_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font partially visible at the southeast corner is the later font of 1679 [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2018 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skärkinds_kyrkas_kyrkosal.jpg] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920720F1] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "På ovansida nav cuppans kant (t.h.) återstår en rest av den ursprungliga inskriften med det latinska ordet FECIT (giorde)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ullén & Ljungstedt, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 104)
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view of font - elevation, section, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ullén & Ljungstedt, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 104)
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the medieval font in its location inside the former parish church, now a burial chapel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn, in kyrkokartan.se [https://www.kyrkokartan.se/0252640/images/252640_38578949] [accessed 19 April 2020]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font in context
Scene Description: the 17thC font in the context of the chancel in the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fredrik Schlyter, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Fredrik Schlyter, in Svenskakyrkan.se [www.svenskakyrkan.se/norrkoping/skarkinds-kyrka] [accessed 19 April 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06243SKA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Skärkind kyrka
Church Location: Skärkinds kyrka, 610 21 Norsholm, Norrköping S, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the 210 and the E4, 3-4 km S of Norsholm, 15-20 km WSW of Nörrköping, 25-30 ENE of Linköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköping's stift
Historical Region: Skärkinds härad -- Söderköping kn, Östergötland län
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiarius, Group 2
Church Notes: original stone church 12thC; old church became burial chapel in late-18thC; new church built on nearby site 1836
Font Notes:
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Listed in Drake (2002) as a a baptismal font of the Bestiarius workshop (Group 2). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920720F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone by the Bestiarius wrokshop in the late-12th century. Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003) reports it in the chancel/choir of the former medieval church, which is now a burial chapel; the basin sides are decorated with an arcade of eight round arches on columns and bases; the arches are populated with beasts; the underbowl is decorated with foliated motifs, as are the stem and lower base. No cover present. A modern font of limestone was donated to the church in 1679.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.467489, 15.985514
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 28′ 2.96″ N, 15° 59′ 7.85″ E
UTM: 33V 557491 6481181
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*
Basin Depth: 27 cm*
Basin Total Height: 45 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 104)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: only a part is now legible
Inscription Location: on the upper rim
Inscription Text: "[...] FECIT:"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Théodore, Émile, "L'encensoir du Musée de Lille et les fonts baptismaux de l'église St-Barthélemy à Liège", (1905), Annales de l'Est et du Nord, 1905, pp. 71ff; p. 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 104, fig. 9-10