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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - two-headed dragon - rampant - amphisbaena?
![complex beast: the rampant stance is maintained with both sets of front paws; the tail has a head, as the traditional amphisbaena; no wings [NB: quite different from the one on the Södra Soberga font, yet quite possibly by the same master or workshop]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140623010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: complex beast: the rampant stance is maintained with both sets of front paws; the tail has a head, as the traditional amphisbaena; no wings [NB: quite different from the one on the Södra Soberga font, yet quite possibly by the same master or workshop]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/mbbilder/bilder/91/9114031.jpg] [accessed 23 June 2014]
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animal - head
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140623013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jönköpings läns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a detail of a photograph 2006 Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21000001627865] [accessed 23 June 2014
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animal - mammal - horse - passant - processional cross
![passant to the right; acanthus-like tongue and penache over its head [NB: unlike the one on the Södra Soberga font, this animal does not support the cross with its leg]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140623008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: passant to the right; acanthus-like tongue and penache over its head [NB: unlike the one on the Södra Soberga font, this animal does not support the cross with its leg]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/mbbilder/bilder/91/9114034.jpg] [accessed 23 June 2014]
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animal - mammal - quadruped - foliated tongue and crest - unidentified - passant
Scene Description: passant to the right; seen here in the third arch from the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Borg, 2002
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Borg (2002)
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animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left; the animal has an acanthus-like tongue; a plant or tree shows behind the animal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/mbbilder/bilder/91/9114029.jpg] [accessed 23 June 2014]
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animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
Scene Description: passant to the right; seen here in the second arch from the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Borg, 2002
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Borg (2002)
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animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - passant
Scene Description: passant to the right; head raised and mouth open; seen here in the rightmost arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Borg, 2002
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Borg (2002)
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns with capitals
Scene Description: the capitals vey simplified, like those on the Södra Soberga font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jönköpings läns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a photograph 2006 Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21000001627865] [accessed 23 June 2014
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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand
Scene Description: all around the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/mbbilder/bilder/91/9114026.jpg] [accessed 23 June 2014]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jönköpings läns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a photograph 2006 Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21000001627865] [accessed 23 June 2014
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jönköpings läns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a detail of a photograph 2006 Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21000001627865] [accessed 23 June 2014
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: a small circle around the centre of the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jönköpings läns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a photograph 2006 Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21000001627865] [accessed 23 June 2014
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human figure - head
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jönköpings läns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a detail of a photograph 2006 Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21000001627865] [accessed 23 June 2014
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: renovation and repairs to the tower of the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tor Svensson, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2011 by Tor Svensson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hults_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 23 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: A rare surviving photograph of Hults gamla kyrkan; the new church was built in 1841, and local sources claim that the old church had been abandoned and much vandalised, and was demolished at the time, therefore the photograph must be of the early 1840s.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W undated photograph in www.engstromsgardenhult.se/Historik.htm [accessed 23 June 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the font can be seen in the left [north] side of the chancel of the modern church](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140623011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font can be seen in the left [north] side of the chancel of the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jönköpings läns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a photograph 2006 Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21000001627871] [accessed 23 June 2014
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jönköpings läns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a photograph 2006 Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21000001627868] [accessed 23 June 2014
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view of font - north and northwest sides
Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/mbbilder/bilder/91/9114026.jpg] [accessed 23 June 2014]
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view of font - northwest side
Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jönköpings läns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a photograph 2006 Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21000001627865] [accessed 23 June 2014
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06286HUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Hults kyrka [now in the new church]
Church Location: [NB: adress and coordinates for the modern church] Kyrkbyvägen 11, 575 92 Hult, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 381 66 23 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off road 33, in the municipality and 10 km E of Eksjö
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Historical Region: Östbo härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Njudungsmästarens posthuma verkstad [Blomqvist] / Juredagruppen [Johansson] / Njudungsgruppen Variant 1 [Borg] / attributed to the Bestiarius workshop [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: the font at Södra Soberga?
Church Notes: present church is 1841; the former 13thC church had been located 3 km to the south and was demolished at the time (1842) -- there was another hamlet wooden church nearby at Edshults; it merged with Hults in the 1790s
Font Notes:
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Listed in Gotthard Johansson (1925) as a baptismal font of the "Juredagruppen". Noted in Blomqvist (1929) in his chapter on the 'Njudungsmästarens posthuma verkstad' as one of many baptismal fonts in this group. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a baptismal font made of sandstone between 1170 and 1220, in the "Njudungsgruppen Variant 1". Listed in Drake (2002: 183) as one of several baptismal fonts "[a]ttributed to the Bestiarius workshop but not verified". Noted and illustrated in The SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910706F1&g=1] [accessed 23 June 2014] as a sandstone baptismal font of the 'Njudungsgruppen', decorated with an arcade containing six mythical creatures; date in the late 12th century; slightly weathered; damaged base; paint on the basin. The arrangement of the six animals is quite similar to the one on the font at Södra Soberga, as is the arcade made of beaded tape, with simplified capitals; the spandrels are filled with foliage motifs; the font has also a similar underbowl to the one at Södra Soberga; the base here is of the type found on some Gotland fonts, on which two levels of very broad rope moulding is set with a set of fours heads each; the heads are human and animal, some very plain and mask-like, whereas others, animal or human, have distinguishable features.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.631547, 15.122906
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 37′ 53.57″ N, 15° 7′ 22.46″ E
UTM: 33V 507339 6387697
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm* / **
Height of Basin Side: 42 cm**
Basin Total Height: 50 cm**
Height of Base: 35 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm* / 85 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 45 x 45 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld / ** Borg (2002)
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