Hejnum No. 2

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design element - motifs - foliage

design element - motifs - foliage and fruit

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: or wavy line

human figure - bust - 4

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

view of font

view of font and cover in context

view of font and cover in context - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2023 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 18530HEJ

Church/Chapel: Hejnums kyrka

Church Location: Hejnum Kyrkebys, 624 38 Tingstäde, Gotland, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 498 22 27 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotllands län

Directions to Site: Located off local road I650, N of county road 147, on the NE side of the island, about 20-25 km ENE of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift, Väskinde församing

Historical Region: Bäls ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the pulpit

Century and Period: 17th century, Baroque

Cognate Fonts: many such others on Gotland

Church Notes: ca. 1200 church; modified mid-13thC; 15thC Passion Master paintings; church restored 1960

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of a common type on the island, dating probably from the 17th century; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round baluster pedestal base, on a round to square lower base. The font is carved and painted over; the basin sides are decorated with a plain vine or line going over and under bunches of fruit on the sides; the baluster stem is decorated with four human busts at 90-degree angles; all remaining spaces are painted with foliage motifs. A wooden cover was on the font on our May 2018 visit to the church; the wooden ornate cover appears to be of the same period as the font, now restored but still extremely fragile. [cf. Index entries for Hejnum No. 1 & 3 for the other fonts in this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.680167, 18.631972

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 40′ 48.6″ N, 18° 37′ 55.1″ E

UTM: 34V 358799 6395569

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 3-4 cm*

Basin Depth: 10-12 cm*

Basin Total Height: 20-25 cm

Height of Base: 64 / 73 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 93-96 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: restricted access to the top or the interior of the basin]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal with eight wide vertical scroll ribs around a pivot; shields between the ribs; appears to have been restored recently