Goteborg No. 5 / Göteborg [disappeared?]

Results: 5 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

view of church exterior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 10 August 2010

view of church interior - altar

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 10 August 2010

view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 10 August 2010

view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 10 August 2010

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the presbitery, north side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 10 August 2010

INFORMATION

FontID: 16992GOT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Göteborgs domkyrka [aka Gustavi domkyrka]

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: [Coordinates for the cathedral: 57° 42′ 16″ N, 11° 57′ 55″ E 57.704444°, 11.965278°]

Historical Region: Göteborgs län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, in the presbitery

Century and Period: Modern

Church Notes: The cathedral is the third on this site; before these there had been a stave church in place

Font Notes: Click to view

The present font is modern, a square block decorated with a plain carved cross. An earlier font from the late 17th century [ca. 1674?] had been made by Marcus Jaeger, who worked on other furnishings [NB: the current cathedral building is the third in this site and dates from the early 19th century; we have no information on the whereabouts of the 17th-century font, or of the earlier ones]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square