Frustuna No. 1 / Frostuna / Fröstuna

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with permission from the SHM]

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with permission from the SHM]

design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles - 2-strand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with permission from the SHM]

information

Scene Description: inventory entry in the SHM

Image Source: digitised image of the original SHM inventory file [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=114865&g=1] [accessed 8 October 2012]

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information

Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with permission from the SHM]

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: shows the damage at opposite ends

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with permission from the SHM]

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2006 by Raphael Saulus [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrustunaKyrka.jpeg] [accessed 8 October 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2006 by Raphael Saulus [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:InteriorFrustuna.jpeg] [accessed 8 October 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Hildebrand (1907: fig. 242)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1917?

Image Source: digitised image of the original SHM inventory file [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=114865&page=4&in=1] [accessed 8 October 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: illustration in Roosval, Abb. 260, p. 220 (1918) "Klisché der V.H.A."

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with permission from the SHM]

view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font in use in Frustuna kyrka

Image Source: digital photograph by Tom Wollecki, in Kyrkokartan.se [https://www.kyrkokartan.se/055603/images/55603_27888325] [accessed 29 April 2020]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 18195FRU

Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum

Church/Chapel: [originally from Frustuna Kyrka]

Church Location: Frustuna By 6, 646 91 Gnesta, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 158 221 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Södermanland, Södermanlands län

Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the A4, NW of Gnesta, SW of Stockholm

Ecclesiastic Region: Strängnäs stift

Historical Region: Daga härad

Font Location in Church: [in a museum -- cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Middle Ages curator and the staff at the Statens Historiska Museum of Stockholm for their help in documenting this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Illustrated in Hildebrand (1907) [NB: Hildebrand's spelling, "Fröstuna", may be wrong or obsolete]. Described and illustrated in the Statens Historiska Museum of Stockholm inventory files as a baptismal font made of sandstone and dated probably in the 12th century; the SHM file notes a similarity of style to some Norman fonts, for instance those at "Chadessley Corbett" [i.e., Chaddesley Corbett (Worcs.)] and Eardisley (Herefs.) [NB: the Museum notes are dated 1917 and signed "J.R." -- probably Johnnny Roosval]; the file reports it as disused in the churchyard in the mid 19th century; added to the SHM in 1917 (?), where it still is [August 2012]. Noted and illustrated in Roosval (1917), (1918). On-site notes: at the time of the BSI visit the Frustuna font was located in a medieval rural church interior recreated at the SHM using artifacts from several old churches; the fonts is described in the SHM files as made of sandstone, but the hemispherical basin stone resembles a semi-coarse granit of reddish colour, whereas the conical pedestal base is a greyish sandstone; the base has a thick rope-moulding atop, damaged at parts. [NB: Roosval [cf. supra] was familiar with Bond's 1908 work on English fonts, and refers to it often in his writings on fonts]. The present font in use in this church is modern, in the general style of a medieval font: a cylindrical basin decorating with a running acanthus vine all around, raised on a round pedestal base with torsade pattern on it, and a round-to-hexagonal lower base decorated with round arches all around, and motifs at the angles. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.058417, 17.308067

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 3′ 30.3″ N, 17° 18′ 29.04″ E

UTM: 33V 632362 6548844

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granit? [basin only] -- sandstone? [base only]

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 6.5-8 cm**

Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm* / 50 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 64 cm* / 64.5-65.5 cm**

Basin Depth: 30 cm* / 30 cm**

Basin Total Height: 51 cm**

Height of Base: 30 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm* / 71 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Roosval (1917: 22) / ** BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Hildebrand, Hans, Den Kyrkliga konsten under Sveriges medeltid: en kortfattad öfversikt, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1907

Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918

Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917