Ravattula / Ristimaki / Ristimäki
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view of church interior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ristimäki, Ravattula, Kaarina, Finland. Site of the oldest known church in Finland, dating late 12th – early 13th Century. Remains of the stone foundations of a wooden church were found in 2013."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ilarius, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2013 by Ilarius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ristimäki.JPG] [accessed 30 August 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21456RAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Ravattulan kirkko [ruins] / Ristimäkin kirkko [ruins]
Church Location: [church ruins on Ristimäki hill in Ravattula] Särväntie 115, 20540 Ravattula, Turku, Finland
Country Name: Finland
Location: Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland
Directions to Site: Located off (E) highway E18, 8 km NE of Turku
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Turku / Åbo ärkestift]
Historical Region: Kaarina
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: 13thC(?) church; first documented 1309; ruins of a 13thC church discovered in 2013; apparently abandoned already in the mid 13thC
Font Notes:
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Information on the church itself but not the font is included in Juha Ruohonen (2017).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.4705, 22.3428
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 28′ 13.8″ N, 22° 20′ 34.08″ E
UTM: 34V 573829 6704564
REFERENCES
Sacrad monuments and practices in the Baltic Sea region: new vists to old churches, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017