Gavle / Gävle / Gefle / Gevalia
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animal - bird - facing each other - 2
Scene Description: the SHM caption suggests eagles but those tails...
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900928F1] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged lion - passant-regardant - 2 - facing each other
Scene Description: the SHM caption suggests "bevingade, motställda lejon" -- the bodies face each other, the heads in a 'regardant' pose
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900928F1] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged lion - with prey
Scene Description: the SHM caption suggests "bevingat lejon med bytesdjur" for the animals on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900928F1] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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animal - mammal - quadruped - passant - 2 - facing each other
Scene Description: they appear to be hooved; deer?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900928F1] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: very complex links and spandrel decorations that are characteristic of this group of font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900928F1] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - interlace
Scene Description: the right circle: is there an animal caught in it?
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900928F1] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: a very thick one, damaged in at least one spot
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [3939-68.TIF] of a 1964 B&W photograph by Åke Nisbeth, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gävle,_Heliga_Trefaldighetskyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200031211.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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design element - patterns - linked vegetation
Scene Description: very complex links and spandrel decorations that are characteristic of this group of font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900928F1] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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head? - 4
Scene Description: totally eroded now
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900928F1] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - belfry
![Source caption; "Heliga Trefaldighetskyrkan [...] Ritning, klockstapeln efter teckning av S. Gestrin, innan den togs ned 1781."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210503016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption; "Heliga Trefaldighetskyrkan [...] Ritning, klockstapeln efter teckning av S. Gestrin, innan den togs ned 1781."
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Image Source: digital image [3939-31.TIF] of a pre-1781 drawing by S. Gestrin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heliga_Trefaldighetskyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200031154.jpg] [accessed 3 May 2021]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arild Vågen, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2013 by Arild Vågen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heliga_Trefaldighetskyrka_October_2013.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: showing the church on the right
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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1700 drawing by Johan Litheim, in Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gävle_before_1700.jpg] [accessed 3 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
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Image Source: digital image [3939-17.TIF] of an undated photograph by Oscar Bladh, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet
[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gävle,_Heliga_Trefaldighetskyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200031135.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: digital image [3939-56.TIF] of a 1964 B&W photograph by Åke Nisbeth, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gävle,_Heliga_Trefaldighetskyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200031199.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [3939-68.TIF] of a 1964 B&W photograph by Åke Nisbeth, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gävle,_Heliga_Trefaldighetskyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200031211.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image [3939-67.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heliga_Trefaldighetskyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200031210.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900928F1] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt av sandsten. Omkring mitten av 1100-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [3939-68.TIF] of a 1964 B&W photograph by Åke Nisbeth, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gävle,_Heliga_Trefaldighetskyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200031211.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22673GAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Heliga Trefaldighets kyrka, Gävle
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Kyrkogatan 1, 803 20 Gävle, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 26 17 04 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Gästrikland, Gävleborgs län
Directions to Site: Located off the E4-E16 crossroads, 20 km E of Sandviken, about 80 km N of Uppsala. The church is located on the N side of the river, just E of the Kvarnbron
Ecclesiastic Region: Uppsala Stift
Historical Region: Gävleborgs län / Gestrikalandia / Norrland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mälardalsgruppen [SHM] / by Gävlefuntens mästare [Boëthius]
Cognate Fonts: fonts at Sigtuna No.1, Falsta, etc.
Church Notes: medieval church destroyed by fire; present church re-built 1654; restored 1728; tower added ca. 1780;
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cornell (1918), Roosval (1918), Swartling (1964), Kennerstedt (1979) and Karlsson (1989). The caption for a 1964 photograph of this font by Åke Nisbeth, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gävle,_Heliga_Trefaldighetskyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200031211.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2020] reads: "Dopfunt av sandsten. Omkring mitten av 1100-talet." Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1] as a "Mälardalsgruppen" baptismal font made of sandstone in the early-13th century. This font is noted and illustrated in Ulf Boéthius' article 'Botkyrkamonumentet, stenmästaren Karl och stenhuggarverkstaden i Sigtuna', in Fornvännen 16-28, fig. 18. Boëthius (ibid.) further notes the similarities between the work on the Flasta fragment and the fonts north of Mälardal, especially those at Lex, Sånga, Ytter-Selö and Järfälla, and he singles out the font in the Heliga Trefaldighets church, in Gävle, by the "Gävlefuntens mästare". The same author points out links and similarities with the fonts of several other workshops.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.67292, 17.13624
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 40′ 22.51″ N, 17° 8′ 10.46″ E
UTM: 33V 616712 6728254
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900928F1]
REFERENCES
Cornell, Henrik, Norrlands Kyrkliga Konst under Medeltiden, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells Bocktryckeri A.-B., 1918
Karlsson, Lennart, "De gatfulla dopfuntsfragmenten i Sigtuna", LVIII, 4, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1989, pp. 143-150, 10 ill.; p. 143ff
Kennerstedt, Lars, "Den gripna handen: en mangtydig gest hos Hegwald", Skandinaviske symposium om romanske stenarbejder (1st, 1985, Viborg), 1989
Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918