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view of church exterior - apse
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: early-15thC(?) retable believed to have been made by a Lübeck atelier working at the time in the nearby monastery of Vadstena
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xauxa (Håkan Svensson), 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2005 by Xauxa (Håkan Svensson) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herrestads_kyrka-Altartavla.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22614HER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Statens historiska museum
Church/Chapel: Herrestads kyka
Church Location: Herrestad 312, 592 92 Vadstena, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road E937, on the N shore of lake Tåkern, 9 km SW and in the municipality of Vastena, 25 km N of Ödeshög
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Church Notes: roof oak beams dendrochronologically dated to ca. 1112; nearby tombs dated 11thC; modified and tower added 12thC; expanded/modified 14th-20thC;
Font Notes:
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Noted in Roosval (1917). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F5] as a fragment of a baptismal made of limestone in the first half of the 13th century; the font is reported at the Statens historiska museum, Stockholm (inv.nr. 13427); the font consists of a roughly-cylindrical basin (of which only about the lower half as survived) and a circular pedestal with a roll moulding atop. Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003) reports the damaged font as being in the SHM by 1908 [after Roosval?]; the damaged basin is decorated with eight round arches. Two fonts are noted for this church: a medieval one [now at the SHM] and a modern one of red limestone designed by Erik Lundberg at the time of the 1946 renovation of the church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.389983, 14.811556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 23′ 23.94″ N, 14° 48′ 41.6″ E
UTM: 33V 488983 6472145
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm*
Basin Depth: 16 cm*
Basin Total Height: 34 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003) [NB: all measurements are of the remaining fragment]
REFERENCES
Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917
Ullén, Marian, Östergötlands medeltida dopfuntar, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet och författarna, 2003