Visby No. 10

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

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Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

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view of basin

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - portal

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view of church exterior in context - north view

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view of church interior - aisle

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view of church interior - chancel - detail

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view of church interior - detail

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view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - west end

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the old basin in the tower space [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2018 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 21757VIS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)

Church/Chapel: Sankta Katarina(s) kyrkoruin / S:kta Karin(s) kyrkoruin

Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine]

Church Location: Stora Torget 2, 621 56 Visby, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located in the historical centre of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift

Font Location in Church: Inside the ruin compound, at the W end, beneath what appears to be the tower space

Century and Period: Medieval

Church Notes: Franciscan church ca. 1233; expansion started ca. 1300 and stopped mid-14thC, probably at the invasion of 1361

Font Notes: Click to view

There is a large roughly hemispherical basin, plain and without a supporting base in the tower space of the ruined church; it is probably not the the original font of this church but could perhaps be of the 14th-century expansion that the church underwent prior to the 1361 invasion. It is of course possible that it was brought from elsewhere, but its design is not of one of the common types on the island. It is missing its original base. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original ca. 1233 church here] [NB: an inscription in the tympanum of the portal reads: "SWE DIT BESIT HE SAL DEME GEVE C. OLVF IHACOBII GUTIENSI" [source: Leonard Bygdén's Den gåtfulla inskriften vid S:t Karins kyrkoruin i Visby, in Fornvännen 261-277 http://kulturarvsdata.se/raa/fornvannen/html/1917_261 Ingår i: samla.raa.se ]]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.640278, 18.295556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 38′ 25″ N, 18° 17′ 44″ E

UTM: 34V 338568 6391882

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 10 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 66 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 86 cm

Basin Depth: 27-28

Basin Total Height: 50 cm