Mietoinen / Mietois
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information
Scene Description: museum label
view of font
Scene Description: as displayed in the National Museum of Finland
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by BSI
view of font in context
Scene Description: as displayed in the National Museum of Helsinki; the wooden font next to it is originally from Vesilahti
INFORMATION
FontID: 18169MIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Kansallis Museo / National Museum, Helsinki
Church/Chapel: Mietoisten kirkko [now in a museum]
Country Name: Finland
Location: Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland
Directions to Site: Mietoinen is part of the the municipality of Mynämäki since 2007, in SW Finland
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: similar to basic models of Gotland's paradise font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a plain hemispherical basin raised on a a round pedestal base decorated with a roll moulding at the top of the base. Badly damamged showing on both parts of the font. The font is originally from the church in Mietoinen, in the Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland region, now [12 August 2012] in the National Museum of Helsinki.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.628413, 21.920926
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 37′ 42.29″ N, 21° 55′ 15.34″ E
UTM: 34V 550389 6721752
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round