Bosjokloster / Bosjoekloster / Bosjökloster

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - columns - with capitals

Scene Description: highly stylised; capitals are circles; columns are pencil-thin and continue all the way down the underbowl

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900715F1] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900715F1] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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symbol - triquetra

Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the arcade

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900715F1] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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view of church - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church at the monast[e]ry of Bosjo in Scania, Sweden."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sven Rosborn, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 3 September 2011 by Sven Rosborn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosjo_monastery_in_Skane_Sweden6.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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view of church exterior - apse

Scene Description: Source caption: "The monast[e]ry of Bosjo in Scania, Sweden."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sven Rosborn, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 3 September 2011 by Sven Rosborn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosjo_monastery_in_Skane_Sweden5.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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view of church exterior - apse - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bosjöklosters kyrka [...] Kyrkan från öster, absiden."

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Image Source: digital image [1482-12.TIF] of a 1930 B&W photograph by Otto Rydbeck, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosjöklosters_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200050114.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henny stokseth, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 7 July 2012 by Henny stokseth [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosjöklosters_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bosjöklosters kyrka och slott i Höörs kommun i Skåne."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rickard Törnblad, 2018

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 8 April 2018 by Rickard Törnblad [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosjökloster_church_and_castle,_Höör,_Scania,_Sweden_-_April_2018.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bosjöklosters kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst."

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Image Source: digital image [1482-1.TIF] of an undated [between 1 January 1904 and 31 December 1906] B&W photograph by Oscar Halldin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosjöklosters_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200050103.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: partially showing the baptismal font at the far [east] end of the laft [north] bank of benches, near the centre aisle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sven Rosborn, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 3 September 2011 by Sven Rosborn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosjo_monastery_in_Skane_Sweden11.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bosjö Kirke i Danmark. Bosjö klosterkirke, døbefont"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hideko Bondesen, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2009 by Hideko Bondesen [http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Bosjoe_kirke/Bosjoe(75).JPG] [accessed 31 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.: 900715F1] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the font in the bottom left [northeast] corner

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Image Source: digital image [1482-19.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosjöklosters_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200050121.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23327BOS
Church/Chapel: Bosjöklosters kyrka
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Bosjökloster 114, 243 95 Höör, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 70 663 35 30
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located off local road M1334, S of county road 23, near Bosjökloster castle, in the municipality of Höör, on the NW shores of Östra Ringsjön 25-30 km NE of Lund, in central Skåne
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Frosta härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, N side
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Church Notes: ca. 1175 monastery church of a Benedictine nunnery; church dedicated to St Mary and St Nicholas; modified 15th, 17thC; re-built 1850s
Noted in Tynell (1913) and in Reutersvärd (1967). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900715F1] as a 'musselcuppstyp, modifierad' baptismal font made of limestone ca. 1300; the SHM entry notes that the arcade modifications to the earlier 'musselcuppstyp' bring it to the Gothic period. No font cover present. Baptismal dish made of brass in the 17th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.87745, 13.518283
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 52′ 38.82″ N, 13° 31′ 5.82″ E
UTM: 33U 407300 6193433

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900715F1]

REFERENCES

Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967
Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921