Jarva-Jaani / Järva-Jaani / Sankt-Johannis / St Johannis in Jerwen

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eesti Evangeelse Luterliku Kiriku, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Eesti Evangeelse Luterliku Kiriku [https://jarva-jaani.eelk.ee/sisu.php?lehe_id=38&alamlehe_id=85&alamlehe2_id=0] [accessed 3 April 2024]
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view of base

Scene Description: Source caption: "Säilinud on ka keskaegse ristimiskivi ümaravormiline jalg. Rahvuspärimuse järgi kasutatud keskajal seda ka häbipostina. Keskaegse ristimiskivi ümaravormiline jalg" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eesti Evangeelse Luterliku Kiriku, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Eesti Evangeelse Luterliku Kiriku [https://jarva-jaani.eelk.ee/sisu.php?lehe_id=38&alamlehe_id=85&alamlehe2_id=0] [accessed 3 April 2024]
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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Järva-Jaani kirik"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ivar Leidus, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 25 April 2012 by Ivar Leidus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Järva-Jaani_kirik1.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2024]
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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: the base of the medieval font in the bottom-left corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EELK Järva-Jaani Ristija Johannese kirik, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in EELK Järva-Jaani Ristija Johannese kirik [http://teelistekirikud.ekn.ee/pildid/kirikud/1_50_sise_233.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2024]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font in the centre of the image, and the base of the medieval font in the bottom-left area of the image
Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
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INFORMATION

FontID: 12342JAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)?
Church/Chapel: Ristija Johannese Eesti Evangeelne Luterlik Kirik
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: 39 Tartu-Jõgeva-Aravete tee lõik 1, Järva-Jaani, 73301 Järva maakond, Estonia -- Tel.: 386 3114, 5343 5774
Country Name: Estonia
Location: Järvamaa
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the 39-127 crossroads, about 35 km NE of Paide
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, N side, by the pulpit
Century and Period: 13th century [base only], Medieval [base only]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this object
Church Notes: present late-13thC(?) stone church said to have replaced an earlier one made of wood by the Danes; neo-Gothic tower of 1881
Font Notes:
Baptismal font noted in Tuulse (1949). The entry for this church in Eesti Evangeelse Luterliku Kiriku [https://jarva-jaani.eelk.ee/sisu.php?lehe_id=38&alamlehe_id=85&alamlehe2_id=0] [accessed 3 April 2024] reports and illustrates the base of a medieval font which, according to tradition, served here as a post of shame in the Middle Ages ["Säilinud on ka keskaegse ristimiskivi ümaravormiline jalg. Rahvuspärimuse järgi kasutatud keskajal seda ka häbipostina. Keskaegse ristimiskivi ümaravormiline jalg"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.040006, 25.881497
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 2′ 24.02″ N, 25° 52′ 53.39″ E
UTM: 35V 435816 6545044

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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