Fjalkinge / Fjaelkinge / Fjälkinge / Fjelkinge (Skåne)

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon or griffin - rampant

Scene Description: one of two; this one has a strangely-shaped tail; it appears to be engaged in fight with an opposing lion on the left

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 25 July 2014 by Ulf Klingström / Ulkl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjaelkingekyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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animal - mammal - lion - rampant

Scene Description: one of two; they appear to be engaged in a fight with an avian fanulous animal or monster, [a griffin?]

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900625F2] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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animal - zoomachia

Scene Description: assuming that it is a confrontational rather than a friendly encounter of the two animals

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900625F2] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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animal - zoomachia

Scene Description: assuming that it is a confrontational rather than a friendly encounter of the two animals

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900625F2] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a broad round moulding below the upper rim

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900625F2] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fjälkinge kyrka från öster"

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Image Source: digital photograph 25 July 2014 by Ulf Klingström / Ulkl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjaelkingekyrka_ext02.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fjälkinge kyrka [...] Kyrkan från nordväst."

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Image Source: digital image [1771-6.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Otto Rydbeck, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjälkinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200052404.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fjälkinge kyrka, den 4 augusti 2012"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stigfinnare, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 4 August 2012 by Stigfinnare [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjaelkinge_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fjälkinge kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."

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Image Source: digital image [1771-2.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjälkinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200052400.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fjälkinge kyrka [...] Kyrkan från väster."

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Image Source: digital image [1771-004.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:Fjälkinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200052402.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fjälkinge kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster." -- the hanging object at the far end, to the left of the altar, looks like a pulpit sounding board but it is actually a canopy over the baptismal font, the top of which is just discernible below.

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Image Source: digital image [1771-12.TIF] of a 1929 B&W photograph by Bertil Berthelson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjälkinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200052410.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkorum i Fjälkinge kyrka"

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Image Source: digital photograph 25 July 2014 by Ulf Klingström / Ulkl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjaelkingekyrka_int03.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: " Kyrkorum mot väster i Fjälkinge kyrka" -- the font is located beneath the tower, behind the arches seen here at the far [west] end

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Image Source: digital photograph 25 July 2014 by Ulf Klingström / Ulkl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjaelkingekyrka_int04.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fjälkinge kyrka [...] Dopfunt av granit." -- this same photograph was used to illustrate the font in Monica Rydbeck's 1936 book

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Image Source: digital image [1771-29.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Otto Rydbeck, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjälkinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200052427.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900625F2] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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view of font, baptismal dish and canopy in context

Scene Description: Source caption: " Dopfunt i tornets bottenvåning i Fjälkinge kyrka" -- a rare mainland sight: a canopy over the font

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Image Source: digital photograph 25 July 2014 by Ulf Klingström / Ulkl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fjaelkingekyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23342FJA
Church/Chapel: Fjälkinge kyrka
Church Location: Riddaregatan 25, 290 34 Fjälkinge, Kristianstad N, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located off (N) highway E20, in the municipality and about 10 km E of Kristianstad
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Villands härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original wooden church with stone tower of mid-12thC; the wooden church was replaced ny a stone building ca. 1190; modified 15thC and twice in the 18thC; restored 1960s with re-dedication on May 14, 1967
Noted in Brunius (1850) describing the scenes on it as two winged dragons fighting two lions. Described and illustrated in Tynell (1913- ) as a baptismal font made of granite; he refers to Brunius' descrption and states instead that, as the font stood at the time [Tynell's] only a bird and the back of a lion were showing NB: Tynell's entry uses the alternate spelling 'Fjelkinge']. Noted and illustrated in Rydbeck (1936). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900625F2] as a baptismal font made of granite ca. 1200, a Danish work; the SHM entry identifies a lion and a griffin on the basin sides; only the original basin remains, now raised on a modern square base. There appear to be two pairs of confronted animals, the confrontation between a lion on the left and a fabulousanimal or monster on the right [possibly a griffin or dragon]; of the latter two one has a pointed tonge sticking out. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.037506, 14.277989
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 2′ 15.02″ N, 14° 16′ 40.76″ E
UTM: 33V 455014 6210489

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 86 cm* / 80 cm**
Basin Total Height: 76 cm* / 70 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Tynell (1913- )** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900625F2]

REFERENCES

Brunius, Carl Georg, Skånes Konsthistoria från Medeltiden, Lund: Hos Förläggaren, 1850
Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936
Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921