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view of church exterior - northeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2012 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunds_kyrka,_den_4_augusti_2012,_bild_3.JPG] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janneman, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2011 by Janneman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sund_Church.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anna Rydin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by Anna Rydin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sund_Church_exterior.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2012 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunds_kyrka,_den_4_augusti_2012,_bild_12.JPG] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church interior - Holy Rood

"The Triumphal crucifix from Sund, originally a ring crucifix of Gotland type, has been dendrochronologically dated to the 1250s. The oak of the body of Christ was felled in the Schleswig-Holstein area in the 1240s. And the same goes for the apostles in the aediculas at the end of the cross arms. The rest of the wood has local origin: The giant cross (5,06 m high) itself is of elder, cut in the elder wood which still grows along the shores of the nearby lake, while the plugs that join the arms of Christ to his body, is of pine. Also the ring itself was of pine. Thus we have an early example of collaboration between foreign import and local workshops. The crucifix must have been ultimately assembled in Åland, which also means that the final coat painting of the crucifix was done locally. The crucifix was mounted on a ”trabes” a cross beam between the chancel and the congregation part of the church, where it formed a part of the Calvary group, flanked by Mary and John in Mourning. Today Mourning John is missing." [source: Åsa Ringbom 2012 [www.kyrkor.ax/churches/sund-church/] [accessed 26 July 2017]]
Scene Description: "The Triumphal crucifix from Sund, originally a ring crucifix of Gotland type, has been dendrochronologically dated to the 1250s. The oak of the body of Christ was felled in the Schleswig-Holstein area in the 1240s. And the same goes for the apostles in the aediculas at the end of the cross arms. The rest of the wood has local origin: The giant cross (5,06 m high) itself is of elder, cut in the elder wood which still grows along the shores of the nearby lake, while the plugs that join the arms of Christ to his body, is of pine. Also the ring itself was of pine. Thus we have an early example of collaboration between foreign import and local workshops. The crucifix must have been ultimately assembled in Åland, which also means that the final coat painting of the crucifix was done locally. The crucifix was mounted on a ”trabes” a cross beam between the chancel and the congregation part of the church, where it formed a part of the Calvary group, flanked by Mary and John in Mourning. Today Mourning John is missing." [source: Åsa Ringbom 2012 [www.kyrkor.ax/churches/sund-church/] [accessed 26 July 2017]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MrFinland, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2009 by MrFinland [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crucifix_in_Sund_Church.JPG] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church interior - altar

"During the 15th century some new wooden sculptures were acquired, above all an altarpiece from Northern Poland. It is a very large triptych with the Madonna surrounded by the four crowned virgins and four other female saints in the margins. On the side wings are the apostles representing the Credo series. Other more modest sculptures represent Saint George and the Dragon and Saint Barbara." [source: Åsa Ringbom 2012 [www.kyrkor.ax/churches/sund-church/] [accessed 26 July 2017]]
Scene Description: "During the 15th century some new wooden sculptures were acquired, above all an altarpiece from Northern Poland. It is a very large triptych with the Madonna surrounded by the four crowned virgins and four other female saints in the margins. On the side wings are the apostles representing the Credo series. Other more modest sculptures represent Saint George and the Dragon and Saint Barbara." [source: Åsa Ringbom 2012 [www.kyrkor.ax/churches/sund-church/] [accessed 26 July 2017]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MrFinland, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2009 by MrFinland [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sund_church_altar_2009.JPG] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end

with the impressive rood in the foreground
Scene Description: with the impressive rood in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MrFinland, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2009 by MrFinland [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sund_church_inside_2.JPG] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church interior - cross

with Runic inscription; claimed locally to be 10thC -- writes: "I have interpreted the much-disputed Unni cross in Sund as a sign that Bishop Unni's missions did indeed include the islands in the Baltic, as stated by Adam of Bremen. I have compared the Sund cross with an oral tradition about a wooden cross commemorating Bishop Unni, "the first apostle of the Gutar", as Klinte in Hunninge on Gotland (Ringbom, 1986, p. 40)." [source: Åsa Ringbom, 'A reply to Hiekkanen regarding the Medieval churches of Åland', in Fornvännen 2012 (107): 1, p. 50-53 [http://kulturarvsdata.se/raa/fornvannen/html/2012_050Ingår i: samla.raa.se] [accessed 26 July 2017]
Scene Description: with Runic inscription; claimed locally to be 10thC -- writes: "I have interpreted the much-disputed Unni cross in Sund as a sign that Bishop Unni's missions did indeed include the islands in the Baltic, as stated by Adam of Bremen. I have compared the Sund cross with an oral tradition about a wooden cross commemorating Bishop Unni, "the first apostle of the Gutar", as Klinte in Hunninge on Gotland (Ringbom, 1986, p. 40)." [source: Åsa Ringbom, 'A reply to Hiekkanen regarding the Medieval churches of Åland', in Fornvännen 2012 (107): 1, p. 50-53 [http://kulturarvsdata.se/raa/fornvannen/html/2012_050Ingår i: samla.raa.se] [accessed 26 July 2017]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2012 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunds_kyrka,_den_4_augusti_2012,_bild_5.JPG] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2012 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunds_kyrka,_den_4_augusti_2012,_bild_11.JPG] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church interior - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västgöten, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2012 by Västgöten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunds_kyrka,_den_4_augusti_2012,_bild_10.JPG] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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view of church interior - painting

one of several depictions of saints in the nave: "The other wall paintings of the nave are a little later, ca 1280-1300, and here further influence from Gotland can be seen in isolated figures of saints framed in by aedicules." [source: Åsa Ringbom 2012 [www.kyrkor.ax/churches/sund-church/] [accessed 26 July 2017]]
Scene Description: one of several depictions of saints in the nave: "The other wall paintings of the nave are a little later, ca 1280-1300, and here further influence from Gotland can be seen in isolated figures of saints framed in by aedicules." [source: Åsa Ringbom 2012 [www.kyrkor.ax/churches/sund-church/] [accessed 26 July 2017]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anna Rydin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by Anna Rydin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sund_Church_St_Margret.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2017]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 21353SUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Pyhä Johannes Kastaha / Sankt Johannes Kyrka
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Norra Sundsvägen, Sund, Finland
Country Name: Finland
Location: Ahvenanmaa / Åland
Directions to Site: Located NE of Kastelholm, 21 km from Lemböte, near the Kyrksundet, on Åland
Date: ca. 1250-1300?
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: present church built ca. 1250-1300 (?); much damaged in 1672 and 1921 fires -- late-medieval mural paintings -- stone cross inside the church has Runic inscription and is claimed locally to be 10thC
Font Notes:
[NB: we have no information on the font of this church]

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UTM: 34V 451103 6679581