Sodra Aby / Södra Åby

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - inverted

a band
Scene Description: a band

INFORMATION

FontID: 09173ABY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Södra Åby kyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located 10-11 km ENE of Trelleborg
Historical Region: Vemmenhögs hd., Skåne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
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
Font Notes:
Listed in Brunius (1850: 507). Described in Tynell (1913-1921: 106): medieval baptismal font of the Hallaröd group, ornamented like the font at Billinge [cf. Index entry], with a band of inverted fleur-de-lis. 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].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: goblet-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 61 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm
Notes on Measurements: Tynell (1913-1921: 106)

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
Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921