Nassjo / Nässjö

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Results: 40 records

Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross - foliated tongue - passant

Scene Description: passant to the right [NB]: this animal is, like the other quadrupeds on this basin, generically rendered; only the cross identifies it as the Agnus Dei lamb]

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Image Source: digital image [2260-053.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086260.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - amphisbaena - three heads

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch; two heads on the upper body, one at the end of the tail

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - bi-corporate - holding the tails

Scene Description: in the left arch [NB: the arch itself is pointed, unlike the others]; this is an odd rendering for a bi-corporate centaur, anatomically challenging

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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animal - mammal - deer - foliated tongue - passant

Scene Description: in the right arch, passant to the right -- is it being chased by the dog in the previous arch?

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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animal - mammal - lion - tongue hanging out - passant

Scene Description: parrant to the right; a short tongue hangs out [NB: despite the hooved extremities it is meant to be a feline]

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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animal - mammal - quadruped - dog - foliated tongue - passant

Scene Description: in the left arch, passant to the right -- is it a dog chasing the deer in the next arch?

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animal - mammal - quadruped - foliated tongue - passant

Scene Description: in the right arch, passant to the right

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animal - unidentified - head or protome - 4

Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on the lower half of the base; they may all have had their front legs visible originally, but some are now damaged

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: all around

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: similar motifs in each of the spandrels of the arcade

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: near the bottom, end of the underbowl

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: a broad rope moulding with heads at 90-degree angles

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: a broad one on the lower half of the base, similar to the one on the upper half

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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design element - motifs or patterns - interlace and/or vine

Scene Description: on the upper half of the base

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design element - patterns - sawtooth or zigzag

Scene Description: all around

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: set at 90degree anglesd on the upper half of the base

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of base

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj" -- showing the drain hole at the top

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Image Source: digital image [2260-060.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086270.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of base

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-063.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Gotthard Johansson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086274.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-053.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086260.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-054.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086262.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-055.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086263.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-056.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086265.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-057.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086266.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-058.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086267.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-059.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086268.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-062.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Gotthard Johansson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086273.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-046.TIF] of an undated photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086250.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-047.TIF] of an undated photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086251.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-048.TIF] of an undated photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086252.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-049.TIF] of an undated photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086254.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of basin - iconographic program

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Blomqvist (1929)

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka från luften"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.foto, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 21 April 2009 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of church interior - angel - baptismal angel

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopängel, efter restaureringen."

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Image Source: digital image [2260-045.TIF] of an undated photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086249.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Kyrkan mot öster." -- showing the old font at the far [east] end, left [north] side

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt"

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Image Source: digital image [2260-052.TIF] of a 1925 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nässjö_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086259.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt"

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view of font

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view of font - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj" [NB: the image is horizontally flipped; the animal should be passant to the right]

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view of font - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nässjö gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt, detalj"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06258NAS
Church/Chapel: Nässjö gamla kyrka
Church Location: Nässjö gamla kyrkby, 571 95 Nässjö, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: The old church is located off local road F931, 5 km NW of Nässjö itself, about 40 km EES of Jönköping down road 31 -- the newer (1909) church is located in Nässjö itself
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Tveta härad / Ostra härad?, Jönköpings län
Font Location in Church: Inside the 18thC church, E end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Njudungsmästarens posthuma verkstad [Blomqvist] / Njudungsgruppen [SHM] / Njudungsgruppens variant 1 [Borg] / Bestiarius, Group 4 [Drake]
Church Notes: original 12thC stone church; new church also of stone 1791; a 3rd church, Nässjö stadskyrka, was built in Nässjö itself in 1908-1909
Noted and illustrated in Blomqvist (1929) in his chapter on the 'Njudungsmästarens posthuma verkstad'. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a 'Njudungsgruppens variant 1' baptismal font made of sandstone in 1170-1220. Listed as a baptismal font of the Bestiarius workshop (Group 4) in Drake (2002: 183). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3] as a 'Njudungsgruppen' baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.684228, 14.658333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 41′ 3.22″ N, 14° 39′ 30″ E
UTM: 33V 479627 6393606

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): 53 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 62 cm* / 65 cm**
Basin Depth: 28 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 49 cm*
Height of Base: 35 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm* / 81 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 43 x 43 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910724F3]

REFERENCES

Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929
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