Simlinge
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: with inverted hanging lillies instead of columnar supports
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900803F1] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - inverted
Scene Description: the workmanship of this example not among the best
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900803F1] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geleja, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Geleja, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/057761/images/57761_44375601] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geleja, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Geleja, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/057761/images/57761_44375601] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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design element - motifs - spur - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geleja, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Geleja, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/057761/images/57761_44375601] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: all around
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900803F1] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Simlinge kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."
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Image Source: digital image [1540-1.TIF] of a 1891 B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simlinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061491.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jorchr, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2017 by Jorchr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simlinge_kyrka,_augusti_2017.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jorchr, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 11 September 2005 by Jorchr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simlinge_kyrka_1.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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view of font
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view of font and baptismal dish
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Image Source: digital photograph by Geleja, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/057761/images/57761_44375601] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Simlinge kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
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Image Source: digital image [1540-12.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simlinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200061507.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09172SIM
Church/Chapel: Simlinge kyrka
Church Location: Simlinge Byaväg 41, 231 97 Klagstorp, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 410 33 41 37
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located off the confluence of local roads M658 and M63, on Söderslätt, 8-9 km ENE of Trelleborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Vemmenhögs härad, Söderslätt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hallarödsgruppen [Tynell] / Blentarp-iii group [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Billinge, Hallaröd, Perstorp, Simlinge and Södra Åby are all of similar shape and decoration
Church Notes: brick medieval church of ca. 1200; modified 15thC; present tower replaced an earlier one in 1852
Listed in Brunius (1850: 507). Described in Tynell (1913-1921: 104): medieval baptismal font of sandstone in the Hallaröd group; it is 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 BSI entries]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900803F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200 by a regional workshop. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
55.390833,
13.286667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
55° 23′ 27″ N,
13° 17′ 12″ E
UTM: 33U 391474 6139620
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: hemispherical (mounted) -- goblet-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 69.5 cm* / 64 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm* / 82 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Tynell (1913-1921) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900803F1]
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