Frustuna No. 2 / Frostuna / Fröstuna

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

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

view of basin - interior

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

view of stoup

Scene Description: as displayed at the SHM

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 18227FRU

Church/Chapel: [original church unkown]

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Stockholm, Stockholms län

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

Century and Period: , Medieval

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

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 and crudely cut. [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 ].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square-to-round

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-round

Drainage Notes: no lining