Valjala / Wolde
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 5 - with capitals and bases
Scene Description: roll mouldings become the capitals and bases of the central shaft and outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HendrixEesti, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 July 2007 by HendrixEesti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_kirik_2007_13.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HendrixEesti, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 July 2007 by HendrixEesti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_kirik_2007_13.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: a large one with foliage motifs at the angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HendrixEesti, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 July 2007 by HendrixEesti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_kirik_2007_13.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus or grapevine
Scene Description: a complex vine of continuing/linked motifs; leaves of the vine populate the spandrels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HendrixEesti, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 July 2007 by HendrixEesti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_kirik_2007_13.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - vine - grapevine - linked circles - with fruit
Scene Description: with floral or foliage extensions into the spandrels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HendrixEesti, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 July 2007 by HendrixEesti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_kirik_2007_13.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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human figure
Scene Description: showing a human figure caught in the spandrel of the underbowl vine, with arms akimbo and the hands clasping at the stems of the vine; appears to be the only one, the rest of the spandrels filled with floral motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Visit Estonia, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph in Visit Stonia [https://static.visitestonia.com/images/2155872/Valjala+kiriku+ristimisvaagen_.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2024 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2024 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of basin - underbowl - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph [source not given] supplied by Pol Herman
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view of basin - underbowl - detail
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the large damage to the basin rim on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2024 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Valjala kirik"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HendrixEesti, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2007 by HendrixEesti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_kirik_2007_1.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leon petrosyan, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 2 April 2013 by Leon petrosyan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_Church-1.JPG] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Valjala kirik"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HendrixEesti, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2007 by HendrixEesti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_kirik_2007_2.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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view of church exterior - west façade - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Valjala kiriku portaal"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HendrixEesti, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2007 by HendrixEesti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_kirik_2007_3.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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view of church interior - baptismal dish
Scene Description: Source caption: " Ristimisvaagen Valjala kirikus 19. sajandi lõpust või 20. sajandi algusest (messing, trugitud, hõbetatud)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Avjoska [Ave Maria Mõistlik], 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 7 August 2011 by Avjoska [Ave Maria Mõistlik] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ristimisvaagen_Valjala_kirikus.IMG_7566.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leon petrosyan, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 2 April 2013 by Leon petrosyan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_Church-2.JPG] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Valjala kiriku sisevaade peaukse suunas"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HendrixEesti, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2007 by HendrixEesti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valjala_kirik_2007_10.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2021]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2024 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2024 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2024 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2024 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of font
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Armin Tuulse, 1949
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Tuulse (1949)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirjastus Kunst, 1975
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Eesti Kunst (1975)
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view of font
Scene Description: the font ca. 1896 (?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maiste, 2008
Image Source: digital image of an original photograph by R. von Guleken, taken ca. 1896 (?), reproduced in Maiste (2008)
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view of font - east side
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view of font - nort side
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view of font - northwest side
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view of font - west side
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maiste, 2008
Image Source: digital image of an original photograph by R. von Guleken, taken ca. 1896 (?), reproduced in Maiste (2008)
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view of font in context
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view of font in context - east side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2024 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of font in context - west side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12329VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Valjala kiriku [Parish Church]
Church Location: Kiriku tee 6, Valjala, 94302 Saare maakond, Estonia -- Tel.: +372 454 9543
Country Name: Estonia
Location: Saaremaa, Saaremaa
Directions to Site: Located off the confluence roads 157 and 159, just E of highway 10, 25 km NE of Kuressaare, on the E coast of Saarema/Osel island, western Estonia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side [cf. FontOtes]
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font, and to Juan Antonio Olañeta for his photographs of the font
Church Notes: church construction started 1227; expanded 13th-14thC; damaged 1343; tower completed 17thC; damaged during 1700-1721 war;
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Guleken (1896). Noted and illustrated in Tuulse (1949) as a baptismal font of the mid-13th century in the parish church at Valjala. Noted and illustrated in Maiste (2007) [NB: the old photograph, ca. 1896 [cf. Guleken supra], shows the font outside the church, in front of the main door]. The font consists of a hemispherical basin with two broad parallel bands of foliage scroll, one on the upper basin side, the other on the underbowl, the space in between blank, raised on a cluster of a broad central shaft with four outer colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases, and a lower moulded square base [the base appears slightly different from the one shown later in Tuulse; perhaps it was re-tooled at a later date in the 20th century]. The basin and its decoration belong to a style of the period not uncommon in the northern fonts of Germany and Scandinavia; although the two main bands of decoration are vegetal (complex vines on the side and on the underbowl, the one on the underbowl has at list one hiuman figure caught in ine of the spandrels of the vine [cf. ImagesArea]. [NB: the Saaremaa web site [www.saaremaa.e] states: "there are two massive baptismal fonts [in this church], one originally belonged to Haapsalu church, and one that belonged to Põide church]. The silver-plated brass baptismal dish is late-19th or early-20th century; even though its design includes a base it is presumably used as an insert into the medieval stone font.
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 19 September 2022) notes: The baptismal font is one of the most notable features of the church. It is one of the oldest pieces of carved stonework in Estonia. Scholars believe that it was made for Haapsalu Cathedral but somehow later found its way to Valjala. The font is decorated with expressive Romanesque sculptures. It is believed that the artist was a Westphalian master.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.40817, 22.78878
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 24′ 29.41″ N, 22° 47′ 19.61″ E
UTM: 34V 604520 6475544
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 115 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Tuulse (1949: 153)
REFERENCES
Maiste, Juhan, Eesti kunsti lugu, Tallinn: Kirjastus Varrak, 2007
Tuulse, Armin, "Mittlealterliche Taufsteine in Estland", Apophoreta tartuensia: acta universitati tartuensi (dorpatensi) ad diem restitutionis kal. dec. MCMXIX nunc tricesimum celebrandum a professoribus discipulisque eorum in exilio dedicata = Pühendusteos: Eesti Vabriigi Tartu Ülikoolile tema avamise [...], Holmiae = Stockholm: Societas Litterarum Estonica in Svecia = Eesti Teaduslik Selts Rootsis, 1949