Perstorp

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

a band of fleurs de lis or simple palmette-like motifs the place of the supports
Scene Description: a band of fleurs de lis or simple palmette-like motifs the place of the supports
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900517F1] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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design element - motifs - floral - inverted

a band of fleurs de lis or simple palmette-like motifs all around take the place of the arcade supports
Scene Description: a band of fleurs de lis or simple palmette-like motifs all around take the place of the arcade supports
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900517F1] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 December 2007 by David Castor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka-6.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900517F1] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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design element - motifs - spur - 4

set at 90-degree angles on the lower base
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900517F1] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 23 December 2007 by David Castor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka-8.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Source caption: "Perstrps kyrka [...] Kyrkan från väster."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstrps kyrka [...] Kyrkan från väster."
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Image Source: digital image [1603-2.TIF] of an undated [between 1 January 1904 and 31 December 1906] B&W photograph by Oscar Halldin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200060336.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of church interior - canopy, baldachin

Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka [...] Dopfuntsbaldakinen före restaureringen."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka [...] Dopfuntsbaldakinen före restaureringen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1603-19.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200060358.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of church interior - canopy, baldachin

Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka [...] Dopfuntsbaldakinen efter restaureringen."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka [...] Dopfuntsbaldakinen efter restaureringen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1603-25.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200060364.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster före restaureringen 1898. Originalbilden i privat ägo." -- the canopy visible in the far left marks the approximate location of the baptismal font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster före restaureringen 1898. Originalbilden i privat ägo." -- the canopy visible in the far left marks the approximate location of the baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1603-9.TIF] of a 1964 B&W photograph by F. Henriksson of an original pre-1898 photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200060348.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka [...] Interiör mot sydöst från början av 1900-talet. Originalbilden i privat ägo." -- the canopy visible on the left marks the approximate location of the baptismal font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka [...] Interiör mot sydöst från början av 1900-talet. Originalbilden i privat ägo." -- the canopy visible on the left marks the approximate location of the baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1603-11.TIF] of a 1964 B&W photograph by F. Henriksson of an early-20thC original photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200060350.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka, kyrkorummet från orgelläktaren" -- showing the font and canopy on the left, just west of the chancel arch
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstorps kyrka, kyrkorummet från orgelläktaren" -- showing the font and canopy on the left, just west of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Karl Johan Kember, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 3 May 2016 by Karl Johan Kember [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PerstorpsKyrka21500001486725.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of font

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 December 2007 by David Castor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka-6.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900517F1] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of font and baptismal dish

Source caption: "Perstorp kyrka [...] Dopfunten."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstorp kyrka [...] Dopfunten."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1603-45.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Hans Wåhlin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200060384.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of font and canopy, baldachin in context

Source caption: "Perstorp kyrka [...] Dopfunt med baldakin före restaureringen."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstorp kyrka [...] Dopfunt med baldakin före restaureringen."
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Image Source: digital image [1603-43.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200060382.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of font in context

Source caption: "Perstorp kyrka [...] Dopfunt efter restaureringen."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perstorp kyrka [...] Dopfunt efter restaureringen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1603-44.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200060383.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 23 December 2007 by David Castor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perstorps_kyrka-6.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2021]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 09171PER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Perstorps kyrka
Church Location: Oderljungavägen 30, 284 33 Perstorp, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 435 349 60
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located off (N) Oderljungavägen, N of highway 21, about 25 km W of Hässleholm
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Norra Åsbo härad, Skåne län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hallarödsgruppen [Tynell] / Blentarp-iii ("hanging lillies") group [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: Billinge, Hallaröd, Perstorp, Simlinge and Södra Åby are all of similar shape and decoration [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; modified in late medieval period and in the 19thC; restored 1964
Font Notes:
Listed in Brunius (1850: 507). Described in Tynell (1913-1921: 113): medieval baptismal font of the Hallaröd group, ornamented like the font at Billinge [cf. Index entry], with a band of inverted fleur-de-lis. Noted in Reutersvärd (1967). Described in Drake (2002: 184) as a Romanesque font, one of the Blentarp-iii group of goblet-shaped fonts "with hanging lillies", a group in which Drake includes the fonts at Billinge, Hallaröd, Perstorp, Simlinge and Södra Åby [cf. corresponding Index entries]. The 18th-century wooden canopy above the font is the work of Jakob Ullberg. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900517F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200 by a regional workshop. No cover present. Baptismal dish made of brass in 1688.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.141667, 13.386389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 8′ 30″ N, 13° 23′ 11″ E
UTM: 33V 399736 6223019

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: tub shaped (mounted) / goblet-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 61 cm* / **
Font Height (less Plinth): 70.5 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 79 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Tynell (1913-1921: 113) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900517F1 [NB: the SHM entry may have included the modern plinth in it]

REFERENCES

Brunius, Carl Georg, Skånes Konsthistoria från Medeltiden, Lund: Hos Förläggaren, 1850
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967
Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921