Ventlinge
Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Rosberg / Kalmar Läns Museum, 2021
Image Source: digital imge of a photograph by Pierre Rosberg, in the Kalmar Läns Museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/011025426021/dopfunt] [accessed 5 October 2021]
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: described in the museum caption as "Spiralupprullade växtrankor"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Rosberg / Kalmar Läns Museum, 2021
Image Source: digital imge of a photograph by Pierre Rosberg, in the Kalmar Läns Museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/011025426021/dopfunt] [accessed 5 October 2021]
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human figure - head - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Rosberg / Kalmar Läns Museum, 2021
Image Source: digital imge of a photograph by Pierre Rosberg, in the Kalmar Läns Museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/011025426021/dopfunt] [accessed 5 October 2021]
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view of base
Scene Description: the base of the medieval font in the Kalmar Läns Museum; the drain hole is clearly visible atop
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Rosberg / Kalmar Läns Museum, 2021
Image Source: digital imge of a photograph by Pierre Rosberg, in the Kalmar Läns Museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/011025426021/dopfunt] [accessed 5 October 2021]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ventlinge kyrka, Mörbylånga, Öland "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2005 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ventlinge_church_view-cropped.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.foto, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 26 March 2020 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1338Ventlinge_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Ventlinge kyrka, Mörbylånga, Öland" -- the odern font in the church [NB: showing the font in the front [east]; a later (2015) photograph shows the font at the west end of the centre aisle]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1211005030_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ventlinge kyrka, Mörbylånga, Öland" -- the odern font in the church [NB: showing the font in the front [east]; a later (2015) photograph shows the font at the west end of the centre aisle]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2005 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ventlinge_altar_pulpit.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2021]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ventlinge kyrka. Kyrkorummet med läktarorgeln."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, Lindås, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2015 by Bernt Fransson, Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ventlinge_kyrka_04.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2021]
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view of font in context
![the modern font in the church [NB: an earlier (2005) photograph showed the font in the southeast corner of the church instead]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1211005032_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the modern font in the church [NB: an earlier (2005) photograph showed the font in the southeast corner of the church instead]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, Lindås, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 6 July 2015 by Bernt Fransson, Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ventlinge_kyrka_04.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23468VEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)?
Museum and Inventory Number: Kalmar läns Museum
Church/Chapel: Ventlinge kyrka
Church Location: Ventlinge 103, 380 65 Degerhamn, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Öland, Kalmar län
Directions to Site: Located off county road 136, about halfway between Grönhögen (S) and Mörbylilla (N), in the municipality and about 20 km S of Mörbylånga, on the SW of Öland
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Grädsgårds härad
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1230?
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Anonymous Calcarius II [Boström]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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The surviving pedestal base of a medieval baptismal font is inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as having been made of Gotland limestone ca. 1230, the sides decorated with a vine of roundels with four human heads set at 90-degree angles at the upper end, with a roll moulding between them. Borg (2002) mentions that it was included in the group 'Anonymous Calcarius II' by Boström (1942) with other fonts (Bedästra, Runsten and Smedby. Described and illustrated in the Kalmar läns Museum [inv. no.: KLM 35314] [https://digitaltmuseum.se/011025426021/dopfunt] [accessed 5 October 2021]: "Dopfunt, dopfuntsfot. Av kalksten. Fot till dopfunt med rund genom skärning. Spiralupprullade växtrankor i relief samt upptill fyra kraftigt utstående ansiktsmasker. Ett cylindrisk hål tvärs igenom stenen. [...] Fyndort, Ventlinge kyrkogård, Ventlinge socken, Öland. Gåva 1875 från Ventlinge sockenmän. [...] 1230 omkring". A modern font of black marble [cf. ImagesArea] is use in the church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.283972, 16.408111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 17′ 2.3″ N, 16° 24′ 29.2″ E
UTM: 33V 587172 6238577
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Height of Base: 41.5 cm* / 42 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** Kalmar läns Museum [inv. no.: KLM 35314]