Vesilahti / Vesilaks / Vesilax

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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by BSI

design element - patterns - interlace

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by BSI

information

Scene Description: museum label

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior

Image Source: reproduced in www.vesilahti.fi/matkailu/tourist-information/wood-church-design/ [accessed 2 September 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by BSI

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view of font and cover

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view of font cover

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the museum; the stone font is from Mietoinen, Finland

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by BSI

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Scene Description: the National Museum of Helsinki

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 18168VES

Museum and Inventory Number: Kansallis Museo / National Museum, Helsinki

Church/Chapel: Vesilahden kirkko

Church Location: 37470 Vesilahti, Pirkanmaa, Finland

Country Name: Finland

Location: Pirkanmaa / Birkaland / Pampere

Directions to Site: Vesilahti is a municipality located off road 2982, 25-30 km SSW of Tampere

Historical Region: Western Finland

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Karlsson (1976) after Appelgren-Kivalo (1910). Baptismal font made of wood, originally from the church in Vesilahti, Pirkanmaa, now [12 August 2012] in the National Museum of Helsinki. The font is probably made of a single piece of wood, but displays three well defined volumes: 1)a cylindrical basin decorated with an interlace between two mouldings, the area below carved into square blocks, and a plain underbowl; 2)a thick centre ring carved with a two-strand braid; 3)a round splaying base, totally plain. The low-dome wooden cover is round and plain, with a tall knotted finial.

COORDINATES

UTM: 34V 640124 6799939

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: the inside of the basin appears to have a hole in the centre, but it would have been lined originally

Notes on Measurements: [measurements not taken]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 14th - 16th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Karlsson, Lennart, Romansk träornamentik i Sverige, Stockholm: Stokholm University, 1976-1977