Stora Aby / Stora Åby

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Results: 19 records

animal - fabulous animal or monster - basilisk - 2 - facing each other - tongue sticking out - foliated tongue

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - basilisk - passant - tongue sticking out - foliated tongue

Scene Description: passant to the left

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - basilisk - passant - tongue sticking out - foliated tongue

Scene Description: passant to the right

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - 2 - facing each other - tongue sticking out - foliated tongue

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - regardant - tongue sticking out - foliated tongue

Scene Description: passant to the right

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - regardant - tongue sticking out - foliated tongue

Scene Description: passant to the left

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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animal - mammal - ram

Scene Description: the only one remaining of the original four animals(?) that decorated the angles of the lower base

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns - columns with capitals

Scene Description: the capital seen here in the centre is decorated with a rosette; others have different motifs

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - braid

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: trefoiled? -- one in each of the spandrels of the arcade

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: several on the underbowl

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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design element - motifs - unidentified - 3

Scene Description: the three seen here were probably animals, but are damaged

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2003

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2003 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stora_Åby_2.JPG] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing the medieval font in the chancel [right [south] side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2003

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2003 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stora_Åby_4.JPG] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt i Stora Åby kyrka i Östergötland. "Dopfunt, 1 aln 16 tum hög, skålen 1 aln 6 tum vid, med djurfigurer i rundbågar m. m." Teckning i "Utdrag af Antiqvitets-Intendenten P. A. Säves afgifna berättelse för år 1861", publicerad i Antiqvarisk tidskrift för Sverige band 1, 1864."

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Image Source: digital image of a 1861 drawing by Pehr Arvid Säve in Antiqvarisk tidskrift för Sverige 1 (1864), plansch 3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stora_Åby_kyrka,_dopfunt.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920708F2] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of font - elevation and section

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ullén & Ljungstedt, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 105)

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view of font in context - northeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [https://www.allakartor.se/venue_images_475/58104_23256844.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22631ABY
Church/Chapel: Stora Åby kyrka
Church Location: Stora Åby, 502, 599 94 Ödeshög, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 142 552 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the E502-E918 crossroads, just N of the E4, 4 km ENE of Ödeshög and in its municipality, about 60 km WSW of Linköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Historical Region: Lysings härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, S side
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiarius font
Church Notes: late-12thC church; tower added 13thC; re-built mid-18thC;
Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920708F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone by the Bestiarius workshop in the late-12th century; the decoration on the basin sides includes a series of fabulous animals in an arcade of round arches; the lower base may have had animals at the angles but three of them were damaged and are now inidentifiable; the fourth is a ram. No cover present Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003) give the material of the font as "vatternsandsten", i.e., a pre-Cambrian layered sandstone quarried in the southern banks of lake Vättern, in this area of Östergötland.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.2398, 14.7102
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 14′ 23.28″ N, 14° 42′ 36.72″ E
UTM: 33V 482985 6455445

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Vatternsandsten)
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 11.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Basin Total Height: 50 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 105)

REFERENCES

Ullén, Marian, Östergötlands medeltida dopfuntar, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet och författarna, 2003