Ekeby nr. Örebro

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at the lower end now, but was shown in an earlier photograph [ImageFileNo. 0210521011] at the upper end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930804F1] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: identified as the base of a column [="foten har varit kolonnbas"] in the SHM entry [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930804F1] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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design element - patterns - diaper

Scene Description: in the middle of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930804F1] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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design element - patterns - sawtooth

Scene Description: at the upper end now, but was shown in an earlier photograph [ImageFileNo. 0210521011] at the lower end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930804F1] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source captions: "Ekeby kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder med kyrkogårdsmuren. Foto före 1894." -- "Häst och vagn utanför Ekeby kyrka. Kyrkan är från 1774, men delar av väggarna är kvar från en tidigare medeltida kyrka."
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Image Source: digital image [3392-8.TIF] of a ca. 1890 pre-1894] B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekeby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200046525.jpg] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ekeby kyrka är uppförd på 1700-talet och är en vägkyrka på Närkeslätten."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fornstina, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a 9 May 2017 digital photograph by Fornstina [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekeby_kyrka_i_Närke.jpg] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: partially showing the medieval font on the right [south], just east of the bank of benches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Riksantikvarieämbetet / Bengt A Lundberg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph [f0101327] 3 April 2001 by Bengt A Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekeby_kyrka_-_kmb.16000300030879.jpg] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ekeby kyrka [...] Altarskåp, snidat polykromerat trä, corpus, två flyglar, 1500-talets början."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3392-16.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekeby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200046558.jpg] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: an illustration in Herman Hofberg's Nerikes gamla minnen; ett bidrag till fäderneslandets fornkännedom, konst-och odlings-historia (Örebro: A. Bohlin, 1868): "Altarskåpet i Ekeby kyrka. “Altarskåpet i Ekeby, som nu förvaras i sakristian, har elfva bilder i halfupphöjdt arbete, nemligen fem i midtskåpet och tre i hvardera af sidoskåpen. Ehuru det hela, som konstverk, icke kan jemföras med det förutnämnda (altarskåpet i Kumla), saknar det för ingen del konstvärde och förtjenade utan fråga att renoveras. Flygelstycken saknas, och besynnerligt nog finnas icke heller några målningar på flygeldörrarna. Men säkert ha sådana funnits, och skåpet i senare tider blifvit öfverstruket med oljefärg, hvarigenom de blifvit utplånade.”
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Herman Hofberg's Nerikes gamla minnen (1868) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nerikes_gamla_minnen_155.jpg] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt i Ekeby" -- an illustration in Herman Hofberg's Nerikes gamla minnen; ett bidrag till fäderneslandets fornkännedom, konst-och odlings-historia (Örebro: A. Bohlin, 1868)
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Herman Hofberg's Nerikes gamla minnen (1868) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nerikes_gamla_minnen_151c.jpg] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930804F1] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ekeny kyrka [...] Dopfunt i två block, marmorerat trälock, 1200-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3392-10.TIF] of a 1910 B&W photograph by Andreas Lindblom, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekeby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200046536.jpg] [accessed 21 May 2021]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 23313EKE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ekeby kyrka
Church Location: Ekebygatan Kyrkan 101, 692 91 Kumla, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 19 58 93 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Närke, Örebro län
Directions to Site: Located off the local roards T642 and T672 crossing, just E of county road 51, in the municipality and about 10 km ENE of Kumla, abiout 15 km S of Örebro
Ecclesiastic Region: Strängnäs stift
Historical Region: Sköllersta härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?) [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: ciborietyp [SHM]
Cognate Fonts: other such in this group
Church Notes: 12th-13thC stone church re-built in 1769-1774
Font Notes:
Noted in Kilström (1981). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930804F1] as the basin of a 'ciborietyp' baptismal font made of limestone in the mid-13th century, raised on a stem the function of which is unknown and a lower base that was originally the base of a column [=?endast cuppan är ursprunglig; foten har varit kolonnbas; det korta skaftet är helt unikt och av okänd ursprunglig funktion". No cover present

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.166333, 15.271833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 9′ 58.8″ N, 15° 16′ 18.6″ E
UTM: 33V 515542 6558605

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 71 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 61 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930804F1]

REFERENCES

Kilström, Bengt Ingmar, Om dopfuntarna i Strängnäs stift Strängnäs stiftsbok, 1981