Lund nr. Öresund No. 4
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: notice the characteristic exit drain cut in the lower area of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Samuel / GuidebookSweden, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2015 by Alan Samuel in GuidebookSweden [www.guidebook-sweden.com/en/guidebook/destination/drottens-kyrkoruin-underground-church-ruins-lund] [accessed 1 July 2021]
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view of base in context
Scene Description: the surviving base of a medieval font in the underground excavated site of Sankt Drottens kyrka
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Samuel / GuidebookSweden, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2015 by Alan Samuel in GuidebookSweden [www.guidebook-sweden.com/en/guidebook/destination/drottens-kyrkoruin-underground-church-ruins-lund] [accessed 1 July 2021]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Modellrekonstruktionen presenterar templet som det bör ha sett ut fram tills rivningen inleddes. Då hade det stått på sin plats i nära femhundra år och byggts om vid minst tre tillfällen [...] Modellen finns i museet vid Kattesund med de mäktiga grundmurarna efter kyrkan som också finns markerad i Kattesunds stenläggning." [text: Claes Wahlöö, in https://kulturportallund.se/drottens-kyrka/ [accessed 1 July 2021]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lars Westrup / Kulturportal Lund, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph Lars Westrup / Kulturportal Lund [https://kulturportallund.se/drottens-kyrka/] [accessed 1 July 2021]
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view of church interior
Scene Description: the underground excavated site of Sankt Drottens kyrka
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Samuel / GuidebookSweden, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Alan Samuel in GuidebookSweden [www.guidebook-sweden.com/en/guidebook/destination/drottens-kyrkoruin-underground-church-ruins-lund] [accessed 1 July 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23366LUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Drottens kyrka / Sankt Drotten [kyrkoruin]
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour? [cf. FontNotes]
Church Location: Kattesund 6A, 222 23 Lund, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located about 500 m. SE of Lunds Centralstation -- "To get to the basement, there are two possibilities. The first way leads through a green door next to an Italian restaurant into a corridor, from which a further door leads to a spiral staircase. Alternatively, it is possible to enter the building and the stairs through the restaurant." [www.guidebook-sweden.com/en/guidebook/destination/drottens-kyrkoruin-underground-church-ruins-lund] [accessed 1 July 2021]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Lunds stift]
Font Location in Church: In the underground ruins of this church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: only underground ruins remain of what is said to the oldest church in Skåne, founded ca. 990 by the Danish king Svend Tveskæg; one of 27 medieval churches in Lund; -- the name of the church, though usually called Sankt Drotten, is not certain and has been called Sankt Salvator and Sankt Trinitatis in early maps of Lund; believed to have been a parish church ca. 1150 but was later given to the Premonstratensians for use as a monastery church; later still, when the monastery was dissolved in the 14thC(?), it returned to its parochial functions; believed to have been demolished during the Reformation [source: https://kulturportallund.se/kort-om-drottens-kyrkoruin/ [accessed 1 July 2021]]
Font Notes:
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Only a block of stone remains of a medieval font here; it is a characteristic base of Scanian fonts of the period around the 12th and 13th centuries, looking like a cylindrical pedestal base that is cinched by a roll moulding; like many such bases, it has a large square cut on its lower end to serve as exit drain; we have been unable to trace this fragment in any of the usual authors reporting Scanian fonts [Tynell, Rydbeck, SHM, etc.], This font [i.e., its fragment] is reported by Dan Damberg in Natur [https://skillingaryd.nu/natur/drottens-gamla-kyrkoruin-lund/] [accessed 1 July 2021]; in Mjörnmark [www.mior.se/skane/lund/drottenskyrkoruin/] [accessed 1 July 2021] with a photograph of the base. [NB: we do not have any information on the baptismal font said to have existed in the original wooden 10th-century church here, probably the oldest church in Skåne, founded ca. 990 [source: www.guidebook-sweden.com/en/guidebook/destination/drottens-kyrkoruin-underground-church-ruins-lund [accessed 1 July 2021]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 42′ 7.66″ N, 13° 11′ 29.9″ E