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design element - architectural - arch or window

Scene Description: very shallow carving

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F1] [accessed 9 July 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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.: 950512F1] [accessed 9 July 2021]

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design element - patterns - ribbed - in round arches

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F1] [accessed 9 July 2021]

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view of baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lövestads kyrka [...] Dopfat av mässing, i botten en framställning av syndafallet." -- [NB: a late-16th-century brass baptismal dish probably made in Nuremberg, and donated to the church in 1613, as evidenced by the inscription on it, which mentions both the date and the name of the donor]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital image [1518-2.TIF] of a 1929 B&W photograph by Erik Andrén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lövestads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200059176.jpg] [accessed 9 July 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lövestads kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten." [NB: the photograph was probably taken after the font had been removed to the SHM]

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Image Source: digital image [1518-25.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lövestads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200059175.jpg] [accessed 9 July 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: now in the SHM [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F1] [accessed 9 July 2021]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lövestads kyrka, Skåne" -- the new church designed by C.G. Brunius in 1847, and completed in 1856

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jorchr, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2010 by Jorchr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lövestads_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 9 July 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lövestads kyrka [...] Kyrkan från nordöst."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital image [1518-2.TIF] of a 1935 B&W photograph by Bertil Berthelson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lövestads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200059152.jpg] [accessed 9 July 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font and baptismal dish in context

Scene Description: The present font in this church is modern, made of sandstone in 1938. It is used with a late-16th-century brass baptismal dish probably made in Nuremberg, and donated to the church in 1613, as evidenced by the inscription on it, which mentions both the date and the name of the donor. [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geleja, 2020

Image Source: digital photograh 8 July 2020 by Geleja in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/056112/Lövestads_kyrka] [accessed 9 July 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23375LOV
Museum and Inventory Number: Statens historiska museum, Stockholm
Church/Chapel: Lövestads kyrka
Church Location: Lövestad byaväg 43, 275 71 Lövestad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 417 210 43
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located off local road M1030 [aka Lövestad landsväg], in the municipality and about 15 km E of Sjöbo -- the church is located about a km from Lövestad
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Färs härad
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Blentarpsgruppen [Tynell]
Church Notes: original church 12thC; demolished; new church designed by C.G. Brunius in 1847, and completed in 1856.
Noted in Tynell (1913-1921) as the basin of a 'Blentarpsgruppen' font -the base is missing- made of sandstone; Tynell gives its location as the "Nordiska museet i Stockholm" [cf. infra]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F1] as the surviving basin of a medieval font made of sandstone ca. 1200 by a regional workshop, and located at the Statens historiska museum, Stockholm; the SHM entry notes Tynell's reference but does not endorse the attribution. No cover present. The present font in this church is modern, made of sandstone in 1938. It is used with a late-16th-century brass baptismal dish probably made in Nuremberg, and donated to the church in 1613, as evidenced by the inscription on it, which mentions both the date and the name of the donor.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.645497, 13.892293
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 38′ 43.79″ N, 13° 53′ 32.26″ E
UTM: 33U 430285 6167182

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 68 cm* / 67 cm**
Basin Total Height: 50 cm* / 48 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Tynell (1913-1921) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950512F1]

REFERENCES

Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921