Angelstad
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Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross - passant-regardant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - 3
Scene Description: two of them only in part; several positions but arranged in a circle
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-regardant
Scene Description: passant to the left; five ball/bead/circle/dot motifs below its body
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - rampant
Scene Description: notice the larga crack through this arch
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 8 - beaded-tape - columns with capitals
Scene Description: the arches, the simplified capitals and the columns are all done in beaded tape
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: below the animals, in some of the arches
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: a row of, beneath the rope moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet - in a circle
Scene Description: on a vertical stick; it makes several of the spandrel decorations
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage?
Scene Description: it was probably meant by the mason as a stylised floral motif but is shaped like an 'ankh', the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for life
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a thin and plain one
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: although had to discern there is a thin rope moulding between the upper ribbed pattern on the underboal and the lower rope moulding of the base [see also image no. 1200926017, where both mouldings are seen partially between the heads
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Image Source: digital image [2040-032.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by A. Steijertz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200067887.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: all around the upper rim of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: see also Image no.0200926007 for a fuller view
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: below the plain moulding -- notice how the top rope links with the heads, as if it wer the neck, while the lower rope goes on to the other sides
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - sawtooth or zigzag
Scene Description: all around the lower edge of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - ball, bead, circle or dot
Scene Description: the vine motif is different on each side, as is the number and position of the additional motifs
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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design element - patterns - piping or ribbed
Scene Description: clearly visible here
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Image Source: digital image [2040-032.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by A. Steijertz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200067887.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: one at each angle of the lower base -- two of them are visible here
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle
Scene Description: in one of the spandrels of the arcade
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pklarsson, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Pklarsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_4.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ingemar Isaksson, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2011 by Ingemar Isaksson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of church exterior in context
![Source caption: "Angelstads kyrka [...] Kyrka och klockstapel. Foto av teckning av Ihrfors, Smolandia Sacra."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200926002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Angelstads kyrka [...] Kyrka och klockstapel. Foto av teckning av Ihrfors, Smolandia Sacra."
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Image Source: digital image [2040-001.TIF] of an illustration in Erik Ihrfors' Smolandia sacra (1938), in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200067856.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
![Source caption: "Angelstad kyrka i Småland [...] Illustrasjon hentet fra boken Nordiska taflor av ukjent forfatter og utgitt av Albert Bonnier (se, 1875), Nasjonalbiblioteket"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200926001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Angelstad kyrka i Småland [...] Illustrasjon hentet fra boken Nordiska taflor av ukjent forfatter og utgitt av Albert Bonnier (se, 1875), Nasjonalbiblioteket"
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Nordiska (Albert Bonnier, 1875), in the Nasjonalbiblioteket [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordiska_taflor_-_no-nb_digibok_2014031428011-74.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pklarsson, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Pklarsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_2.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the medieval font is partially visible at the far [east] end, to the right [south] of the altar](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200926003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the medieval font is partially visible at the far [east] end, to the right [south] of the altar
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Image Source: digital image [2040-023.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200067878.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Agelstads kyrka [...] Teckning av Per Vistrand från 1880. Föreställer dopfunt från 1100-talet av grå sandsten."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200926004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Agelstads kyrka [...] Teckning av Per Vistrand från 1880. Föreställer dopfunt från 1100-talet av grå sandsten."
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Image Source: digital image [2040-030.TIF] of a 1880 drawing by Per Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200067885.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of font - northwest side
![Source caption: "Angelstads kyrka [...] Dopfunt från 1100-talet av grå sandsten."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200926006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Angelstads kyrka [...] Dopfunt från 1100-talet av grå sandsten."
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Image Source: digital image [2040-033.TIF] of a 1922 B&W photograph by Anders Roland [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200067888.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of font - northwest side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Angelstads kyrka [...] Dopfunt från 1100-talet av grå sandsten."
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Image Source: digital image [2040-032.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by A. Steijertz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200067887.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of font - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910618F1#] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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view of font in context - northwest side
![Source caption: "Angelstads kyrka [...] Dopfunt från 1100-talet av grå sandsten."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200926005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Angelstads kyrka [...] Dopfunt från 1100-talet av grå sandsten."
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Image Source: digital image [2040-031.TIF] of a 1924 B&W photograph by Allan Berglund [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200067886.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06275ANG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Angelstads kyrka
Church Location: Angelstads kyrkby, Banvallsleden, 341 94 Ljungby, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Kronobergs län
Directions to Site: Located off local road G561 [aka Banvallsleden], about 7 km W of Ljungby and in its municipality, on the SE shores of the Bolmen
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Sunnerbo härad, Ljungby kn, Kronobergs län, Småland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E and
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiariusgruppen [SHM] / Bestiarius, Group 6 [Drake]
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; extended 17thC; belfry 1760; renovated , again 1806; renovated 1927-1930,
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Blomqvist (1929). Listed as a baptismal font of the Bestiarius workshop (Group 6) in Drake (2002: 183). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1] as a 'Bestiariusgruppen' baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century. The font consists of a roughly culindrical basin decorated with animals inscribed in an arcade of eoight round arches; additional decoration on the sides of the basin consists og rope moulding, beaded band and a saw-tooth or zig-zag band; the centre ring is a broad rope moulding atop the round-to-square base; also on the base are four human heads, one at each corner, vegetal motifs on the sides between them, and two rows of rope moulding below. No cover present; Somer cracks and other damage present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.832683, 13.770403
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 49′ 57.66″ N, 13° 46′ 13.45″ E
UTM: 33V 424972 6299435
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (grey)
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910618F1]
REFERENCES
Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002