Gryt in Gnesta
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 December 2012 by Jssfrk [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gryts_kyrka,_dec_2012b.JPG] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sören Eriksson, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2010 by Sören Eriksson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gryts_kyrka_juni_2010.jpg] [accessed 25 December 2014]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: in the foreground, just west of the pulpit is the the top of the modern font
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the baptismal font in the context of the church interior
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Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/058267/images/] [accessed 25 December 2014]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font; the base showing three of the four Evangelists' symbols
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kyrkokartan.se, 2014
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font; the base showing two of the four Evangelists' symbols
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kyrkokartan.se, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/058267/images/] [accessed 25 December 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19601GRY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Gryts Kyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Södermanland, Södermanlands län
Directions to Site: Located between Södertälje and Katrineholm, in the municipality of Gnesta
Ecclesiastic Region: Strängnäs stift
Historical Region: Södermanlands län
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: church originally 12thC; expanded ca. 1300 and 15thC; current building is late-18thC
Font Notes:
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The present fonts is modern, late-20th century, made of the traditional Gotland sandstone; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with stylised foliage motifs; raised on a square pedestal base bearing the symbols of the four Evangelists. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 12th-century church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.101847, 16.994431
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 6′ 6.65″ N, 16° 59′ 39.95″ E
UTM: 33V 614235 6553099