Kaarma / Kaarma-Kirikuküla / Karmel
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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Nõmmik, 1949
Image Source: B&W photograph by J. Nõmmik in Tuulse (1949)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirjastus Kunst, 1975
Image Source: B&W photograph in Eesti Kunst (1975)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Nõmmik, 1949
Image Source: B&W photograph by J. Nõmmik in Tuulse (1949)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12332KAA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / müschelcuppa variant
Cognate Fonts: another such basin [but with twelve sides] at Parnu, in the mainland
Church / Chapel Name: Kaarma Peeter-Pauli Kirik
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: 13thC church; re-built 15thC
Church Address: Kirikuküla, 93752 Saare County, Estonia
Site Location: Saaremaa, Saaremaa, Estonia, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off roads 123-124 confluence, 15-20 km N of Kuressaare, on Saarema Island
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Tuulse (1949): limestone baptismal font with a basin of a variant type he describes as 'polygonalen Müschelcuppen'; the polygonal top of the basin has sixteen sides, the sides decorated with an equal number of broad ribs thar continue on the rounded underbowl; there is a scotia under the upper rim of the basin; the basin is raised on a plain cylindrical stem and a quadrangular lower base with the upper angles chamfered. [NB: the Saaremaa web site [www.saaremaa.ee] states "the stone baptismal font dates to the latter half of the 13th century"]
COORDINATES
UTM: 34V 588356 6468566
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.349073, 22.509582
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 20′ 56.66″ N, 22° 30′ 34.49″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: polygonal (sixteen sides) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal (sixteen sides)
REFERENCES
- 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, p. 156 and Abb. 5