Kuddby
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950516F6] [accessed 12 April 2020]
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950516F6] [accessed 12 April 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.foto, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2011 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuddby_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 12 April 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexandru Baboş, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2006 by Alexandru Baboş [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuddby_kyrka.SV.jpg] [accessed 12 April 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![showing the modern font of brass on the right [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200412006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the modern font of brass on the right [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexandru Baboş, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2006 by Alexandru Baboş [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuddby_kyrka.mot_altaret3.jpg] [accessed 12 April 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: the medieva fon now at the SHM [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950516F6] [accessed 12 April 2020]
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view of font in context
![this photograph must have been taken at the time of its 'discovery' in a garden in Gisselö in 1946; it was purchased in 1947 by the SHM from the Huvudstyrelsen för Föreningen Värnlösa barn, in Norrköping, and catalogued by Bengt Thordema [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200412003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: this photograph must have been taken at the time of its 'discovery' in a garden in Gisselö in 1946; it was purchased in 1947 by the SHM from the Huvudstyrelsen för Föreningen Värnlösa barn, in Norrköping, and catalogued by Bengt Thordema [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Foto ÄTA, [1946?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1946(?) by Foto ÄTA, reproduced in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: fig. 57)
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction -- Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 22618KUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Statens historiska museum, Stockholm
Church/Chapel: Kuddby kyrka
Church Location: Kuddby, Norrköping Ö, 610 33 Vikbolandet, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län
Directions to Site: Located 12 km NE of Söderköping, about 25 km ESE of Norrköping and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Historical Region: Björkekinds härad
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / Baegerbladsfonte / Muschelcuppen / Musselcuppor / Musselcuppstyp [SHM]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Reutersvärd (1967). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F6] as a 'musselcuppstyp' made of limestone in the late-13th century, and deposited at the Statens historiska museum of Stocholm. Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003) as a baptismal font made of Gotland limestone that was sold in 1785; had been for a time disused in a garden in Gisselö; discovered in 1946, it was purchased in 1947 by the SHM from the Huvudstyrelsen för Föreningen Värnlösa barn, in Norrköping, and catalogued by Bengt Thordeman. The present font in use in this church was made by E. Duraee in 1700 and is decorated with floral and fruit motifs.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.5283, 16.474483
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 31′ 41.88″ N, 16° 28′ 28.14″ E
UTM: 33V 585864 6488472
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 81 cm*
Basin Depth: 31 cm*
Basin Total Height: 42 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003)
REFERENCES
Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967
Ullén, Marian, Östergötlands medeltida dopfuntar, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet och författarna, 2003