Helsingborg No. 4

Main image for Helsingborg No. 4

Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

Results: 6 records

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 951014F4] [accessed 24 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © E. Palmestedt, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 15 August 2015 by E. Palmestedt, in Kyrkosafari [https://kyrkosafari.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/den-gode-herdens-kyrka-helsingborg/] [accessed 24 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - 16 - double columns - torsade pattern

Scene Description: the torsade patterns within the attached pairs runs in different directions; the capitals appear to be of the water-leaf type; the baes are plain -- the blank spaces are unusually rough, unfinished [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - floral - lily

Scene Description: one in each spandrel of the arcade

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: it appears to consist of large leaves, and may have remains of shapes that would help identify the type of original base it had (single central shaft? central shat with four outer colonnettes?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 951014F4] [accessed 24 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pärlan vid sundet, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Pärlan vid sundet [http://parlanvidsundet.blogspot.com/2012/07/den-gode-herdens-kyrka.html] [accessed 24 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

Font ID: 23355HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Den gode herdens kyrka, Helsingborg / Filborna kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the modern church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Good Sheppherd
Church Notes: modern church of 1984; the site has no pre-20thC precedent church
Church Address: Blåkullagatan 7, 254 57 Helsingborg, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 42 18 90 05
Site Location: Skåne, Skåne län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Drottninghög district of Helsingborg, W of county road 111 about 4 km E of the harbour
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Luggude härad, Malmöhus län, Skåne
Additional Comments: altered font (original base missing) / is it an original font basin or a modern replica? / moved font (said to be originally from Belgium)
Font Notes:
A baptismal font of the 12th century, the basin originally from Belgium, is reported in this modern church in the Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaHistorik.raa;jsessionid=25FD007D1B0591028FD1ECD15CED424F?byggnadId=21400000582010&page=historik&visaHistorik=true] [accessed 24 June 2021]: "Dopfunten, från 1100-talet är av sandsten. Cuppan kommer från Belgien, foten är nytillverkad. Cuppan är fyrkantig och dekorerad med en relief av en rundbågsfris med kopplade spiralvridna pilastrar. Mellan valvbågarna finns stiliserade liljor. Foten är en hög cylinder med bredare bas." Noted and illustrated in Kyrkosafari [https://kyrkosafari.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/den-gode-herdens-kyrka-helsingborg/] [accessed 24 June 2021]: "Dopfunten har sitt ursprung i Belgien och är tillverkad under 1100-talet. " Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 951014F4] as the basin of a baptismal font made of sandstone in Belgium in the 12th century. [NB: although the type of font design would fit well with the Romanesque fonts of Belgium and northern France there is something odd about the finishing of the blank surfaces om this font, which are left rough, an uncommon occurrence -- BSI has not yet been able to trace the donor of the font or its provenance].

COORDINATES

UTM: 33V 358461 6215397
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.062778, 12.726667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 3′ 46″ N, 12° 43′ 36″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm* [includes modern base]
Trapezoidal Basin: 89 x 93 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 951014F4]