Kalix / Calix / Chalis / Kahinuu / Kainus / Kôlis / Nederkalix
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle
Scene Description: a band inscribed 5- and 6-petalled rosettes all around below the inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ormstunga, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 April 2019 by Ormstunga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dopfunt_Kalix_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: showing damage on the left side of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ormstunga, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 April 2019 by Ormstunga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dopfunt_Kalix_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element - patterns - interlace - ball-shaped
Scene Description: a large ball-shaped interlace above the roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ormstunga, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 April 2019 by Ormstunga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dopfunt_Kalix_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
inscription - partial
Scene Description: [cf. InscriptionArea]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ormstunga, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 April 2019 by Ormstunga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dopfunt_Kalix_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900820F1] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: xylography by Meyer in "Vårt land. : En skildring i ord och bild..." (Stockholm, 1888 --,based on a painting by Didrik von Essen (1856-1922),
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a xylography by Meyer based on a painting by Didrik von Essen (1856-1922) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nederkalix.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD Old
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Krutberg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2011 by Krutberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalix_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
![Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210519013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [4346-002.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Henryk Cornell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalix_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200149908.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: showing the top of the font by the right side of the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [4346-048.tif] of an undated [pre-1941] B&W photograph by Henryk Cornell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalix_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200150015.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church interior - looking east
![showing the baptismal here in the right [southeast] corner](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210519015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the baptismal here in the right [southeast] corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [4346-052.tif] of a 1941 B&W photograph by Iwar Anderson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalix_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200150025.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: showing the top of the font in the southeast corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mestos, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2012 by Mestos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaihnuun_kirkko.JPG] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
![Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Dopfunt, andra hälften av 1400-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210519016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Dopfunt, andra hälften av 1400-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [4346-068.tif] of an undated [pre-1941] B&W photograph by Otar Hökerberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalix_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200150068.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900820F1] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of font and inscription
![Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Dopfunt, andra hälften av 1400-talet. Foto efter teckning ur Ekdahls norrländska samlingar II B"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210519019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Dopfunt, andra hälften av 1400-talet. Foto efter teckning ur Ekdahls norrländska samlingar II B"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [4346-071.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren of Ekdahls norrländska samlingar II B, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalix_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200150075.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font in context
![Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Dopfunt, andra hälften av 1400-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210519018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Dopfunt, andra hälften av 1400-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [4346-070.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Gunnar Ullenius, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalix_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200150072.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Medeltida dopfunt i Kalix kyrka. Den latinska inskriften betyder: "Frälsning och liv skänkas oss i det välsignade vattnet"."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ormstunga, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 April 2019 by Ormstunga [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dopfunt_Kalix_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font in context - south side
![Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Dopfunt, andra hälften av 1400-talet." -- showing the font still in the northeast corner, near the pulpit](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210519017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kalix kyrka [...] Dopfunt, andra hälften av 1400-talet." -- showing the font still in the northeast corner, near the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [4346-069.tif] of an undated [pre-1941] B&W photograph by Henryk Cornell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalix_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200150070.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
INFORMATION
FontID: 23309NED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Kalix kyrka [aka Nederkalix kyrka]
Church Location: Kalix kyrka, 952 34 Kalix, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Norrbotten, Norrbottens län
Directions to Site: Located highway E4 and Kalix river, on the N shores of the gulf of Botnia, about 50 km W of the border with Finland, 100 km ENE of Luleå
Ecclesiastic Region: Luleå stift
Historical Region: Neder-Kalix härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Nodgruppen (SHM)
Church Notes: northernmost medieval church in Sweden and oldest in Norrbotten documented 1472; damaged by fire 1595; restored; renovated 1653; looted by Russians 1716; restored 1753-1754; invaded and used as stable by Russians in 1809; restored 1921-1923,1955 and 1972
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Cornell (1918). Noted and illustrated in Oscar Reutersvärd's Uppsvenska nodfuntar Ars Suetica 7 (1983: 359 ff). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900820F1] as a 'nodgruppen' baptismal font made of limestone in the 15th century bearing a Latin inscription "Salus et vitae in aqua benedicta sit nobis" around the basin side. No cover present. The font shows in pre-1941 photographs [cf. ImagesArea] in the north side of the nave, by the pulpit; since 1941 all photographs show it located in thesoutheast corner of the nave.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 65.854139, 23.132389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 65° 51′ 14.9″ N, 23° 7′ 56.6″ E
UTM: 34W 597319 7305305
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 55 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900820F1]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: in a band just below the upper rim of the basin
Inscription Text: "Salus et vitae in aqua benedicta sit nobis"
Inscription Source: transcription in the SHM entry
REFERENCES
Cornell, Henrik, Norrlands Kyrkliga Konst under Medeltiden, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells Bocktryckeri A.-B., 1918