Turku / Åbo
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2013 by John Wilkes for BSI
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph from Juan Antonio Olañeta of www.claustro.com
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view of font in context
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches
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design element - motifs - tracery
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle (cross-in-a-circle?) - 12
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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2013 by John Wilkes for BSI
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the cathedral ca. 1900
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Image Source: digital image of Åbo domkyrka. Ur verket "Finland i ord och bild" av O. M. Reuter, tryckt i Stockholm 1901, sidan 275 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Åbo_domkyrka_cirka_1900.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the church as it was in 1814, before the Great Fire of Turku in 1827, which destroyed part of the cathedral as well as a large part of the city
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Image Source: digital image of a 1814 watercolour by Carl Ludvig Engel (1778-1840) in the Suomen kansalliskirjaston digitaaliset kokoelmat. HYK Käsikirjoitukset Ms.Fol.12: 506 / Digital collection of Finnish National Library. HYK Käsikirjoitukset Ms.Fol.12: 506 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_of_Turku_1814.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2010 by Heyzeuss [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Turkucathedral.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Scoo, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2006 by Scoo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Turku_cathedral_interior_April_2006.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2013]
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view of church interior - plan
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tietosanakirja 1909 Encyclopaedia; The drawing was made in Helsinki Technical University, acording to the planimetry made by Architecture School, under professor Gustaf Nyström ca. 1900 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Turku_Cathedral_plan.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10953TUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Turun Tuomiokirkko / Åbo domkyrka [Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Henry -- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the left of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Henry [first bishop of Finland]
Church Notes: built on the site of an earlier wooden church on Unikankare hill, and consecrated in 1300 AD; expanded through the centuries; partly destroyed in the fire of 1827; great part of the interior dates from the after-the-fire restoration in the 1830s
Church Address: Tuomiokirkonkatu 1, 20500 Turku, Finland
Site Location: Länsi-Suomen Lään, Finland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre, off roads 9-19 crossroads, about 150 km W of Helsinki
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Turku [formerly in the Diocese of Finland]
Additional Comments: recycled font / damaged font: only the basin of the 15th century font survived; it has been replaced by a 20th-century font
Font Notes:
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The baptismal font consists of a hemispherical basin raised on a cylindrical pedestal base; only the basin is original, the base being a later adition; the basin is decorated with a thick roll moulding all around the upper basin side; below it is an arcade of trefoil arches with decoration in the spandrels; inside each arch is a small symbol (?): a roundel with a cross-shaped quatrefoil motif [cf. infra] inside it; the lower basin side has a broad flat moulding; the basin may have been broken or badly damaged, as witnessed by the large almost vertical crack on its side, although it is also possible that the original stone block was flawed and the damaged area placed against the wall [the arches of this area do not containg the little cross motifs]. The web site of Turku Cathedral [www.turunseurakunnat.fi/portal/turun_tuomiokirkko/] informs: "It was customary to paint 12 consecration crosses on the walls. In Turku Cathedral, the font also was incised with 12 consecration crosses." The same site dates this font to the 15th century, although the type and style of ornamentation could belong to the late 13th century, which would make this the original font of the newly consecrated cathedral circa 1300. This source informs that the current font in use was made with silver from the old roof of the spire, "designed by architects Laiho-Pukkinen-Raunio, and completed in 1986."]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, and to John Wilkes, for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 34V 570324 6702458
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 60.452222, 22.278333
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 60° 27′ 8″ N, 22° 16′ 42″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round