Orberga No. 1 / Örberga

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design element - motifs - piping or ribbed - 4

Scene Description: topped with crown heads

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920903F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920903F1] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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human figure - crowned

Scene Description: seen here on the right: cloaked figure wearing a crown with lilly-like tips ["med liljeformade spetsar"] [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920903F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920903F1] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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human figure - head - bulging eyes - tongue sticking out

Scene Description: the fourth head has bulging eyes and the tongue sticking out ["med glosögon, möjligen med utsträckt tunga"] [cf. FontNotes]

human figure - head - crowned

Scene Description: two such; one seen here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920903F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920903F1] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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view of basin and baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2014 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örberga_kyrka_2014-07-18-128.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2014 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örberga_kyrka_2014-07-18-140.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2011 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örberga_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: notide the 17thC baptismal font in the left [north] transept chapel; the medieval font is partially visible in the southeast corner, by the south pillar of the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2006 by Riggwelter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örberga_church_Vadstena_Sweden_005.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2006 by Riggwelter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örberga_church_Vadstena_Sweden_006.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - painting - detail

Scene Description: some of the 15thC mural paintings by the Risingemästaren were 'improved' in the 19thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2014 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örberga_kyrka_2014-07-18-001.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920903F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920903F1] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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view of font - elevation and section

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 116) [https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1295675/FULLTEXT01.pdf] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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view of font and baptismal dish - upper view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2006 by Riggwelter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örberga_church_Vadstena_Sweden_009.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22641ORB

Church/Chapel: Örberga kyrka

Church Location: Örberga 102, 592 91 Vadstena, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län

Directions to Site: Located on the E banks of Vättern lake, 7 km W of Vadstena and in its municipality, N of the E4

Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift

Historical Region: Dals härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland workshop [SHM]

Church Notes: stone church early-12thC(?) church [1116-1117 dendrochronological dating of tower timber]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.:920903F1] as a baptismal font made of limestone by a "gotländsk verkstad" in the 13th century, decorated with four tiny crowned heads atop as many ribs set at 90-degree angles on the sides. Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003) as the basin of a medieval font made of "ortocerkalksten" and decorated with four figures; only of the figures has a fairly well defined body, dressed in a cloak that reaches to the feet; the four heads are described thus: the cloaked figure wears a crown with lilly-like tips ["med liljeformade spetsar"]; two heads with curly hair and crowns that are simpler than the lilly-tipped one; the fourth head has bulging eyes and the tongue sticking out ["med glosögon, möjligen med utsträckt tunga"]; raise on modern replacement base. There is also a later font in this church, made in 1690 by Johan Andersson Silverling, of Vadstena [cf. BSI entry for Orberga No. 2]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.43458, 14.80232

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 26′ 4.49″ N, 14° 48′ 8.35″ E

UTM: 33V 488457 6477112

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 7 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm*

Basin Depth: 28 cm*

Basin Total Height: 40 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 116)

REFERENCES

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