Orebro No. 1 / Örebro
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: appears to be made of mixed patterns: rope / braid
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F1] [accessed 26 May 2021]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F1] [accessed 26 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of basin
Scene Description: as displayed in the Örebro läns museum, Örebro (inv.nr. 2939) [original base missing]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F1] [accessed 26 May 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 23323ORE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Örebro läns museum, Örebro
Church/Chapel: Sankt Nikolai kyrka / Nikolaikyrkan [originally Örebro kyrka]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Drottninggatan 16, 702 10 Örebro, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 19 15 45 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Närke, Örebro län
Directions to Site: Located off (S) highway E18, about 140 km W of Stckholm. St Nikolai kyrka is in the city centre, S of the Svartån river
Ecclesiastic Region: Strängnäs stift
Historical Region: Örebro län, Närke
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mellansvensk workshop / verkstad (SHM)
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F1] as the surviving basin of a baptismal font made of quartz ca. 1200 by a mid-Swden workshop [="mellansvensk verkstad"]; the roughly hemispherical basin is decorated with a thin rope/braid moulding below the upper rim, and a broader rope moulding at the bottom of the underbowl; the base is missing; the SHM entry gives the provenance and location of the font: "Örebro St Nikolai [...] Örebro läns museum, Örebro (inv.nr. 2939) "
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.2722, 15.2114
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 16′ 19.92″ N, 15° 12′ 41.04″ E
UTM: 33V 512049 6570381
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, quartz
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F1]