Frustuna No. 2 / Frostuna / Fröstuna
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18227FRU
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unkown]
Font Location in Church: in museum [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden, Europe
Additional Comments: altered stoup? originally a capital; appears to have been re-cycled as holy-water stoup
Font Notes:
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Basin of a holy-water stoup that appears to have been carved out of a disused medieval capital; the object is of a common capital shape, quadrangular at the top and round at the bottom to sit on a round column; the inner basin is quadrangular. [NB: although entered here under the name of Frustuna, we do not know the origin of this stoup. It is displayed in the SHM inside the model rural church in which the baptismal font originally from Frustuna, hence the naming for lack of a better name. We have no information on its original location, nor was it labelled at the SHM ].
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
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square-to-round
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining