Munktorp

Noted and illustrated in Wentzel (1938) as a work sponsored by Beno Henrici Korp, "episcopus arosiensis". Baptismal font made of bronze, consisting of a hexagonal basin with tapering sides decorated with pairs of figures framaed under straight pointed arches that contain inscriptions identifying the figures; the figures stand on tiny moulded platforms; at the arrises of the hexagon are thin buttresses decorated with heads [animal?] at both ends; the upper rim of the basin is molded with a torus-scotia-torus arrangement; the underbowl is plain and narrows to a a centre-ring triple moulding under which the hexagonal lowert base splays out and ends in a double moulding; resting on three couchant animals [lions?]. The present lid is modern, hexagonal, flat and plain, but the upper basin has a large clasp at the rim, which would have served to secure an earlier and more elaborate font cover. [NB: two other fonts exist in this church, both of stone: one is the remains of what appears to be a roughly hemispherical basin that had concave ribbing on the inside of the basin, like some of the 'paradisen funten' of the 13th century from Gotland; it is now in the vestibule [vapenhuset]; the other stone font is modern and inside the Davidskyrka -- NB: we have no information on the original mid-11th century font from the old church]