Vehmaa / Vemo
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view of church exterior - bell-cote
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21349VEH
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Vehmaan kirko / Pyhä Margareta
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Kirkkotie 8-24, Vehmaa, Finland
Country Name: Finland
Location: Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland
Directions to Site: Located off road 194, 30 km NW of Naantali, 38 km NW of Turku
Ecclesiastic Region: Archdiocese of Turku
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wall-mounted on the S wall
Date: ca. 1430?
Century and Period: 15th century (early-to-mid?), Late Medieval
Church Notes: prewsent church early 15thC
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Hiekkanen (2007) as a stone holy-water stoup mounted on the south wall and dated to the 1430s; the basin is roughly hemispherical, decorated on the sides with an arcade of trefoiled arches on columns , and a row of encircled quatrefoils around the underbowl; there is an cylindrical-shaped extension of the underbowl to a pinted end and it has a roll moulding on it. [NB: there may be a related font in this church but we could not get corroboration].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.682808, 21.666013
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 40′ 58.11″ N, 21° 39′ 57.65″ E
UTM: 34V 536380 6727642
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Hiekkanen, Markus, Suomen Keskiajan Kivikirkot, Helsinki: SKS (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Sura, 2007