Kalmar no. 5

Results: 3 records

animal - 2 - fighting - lion and unicorn?

Scene Description: shown here as figs. 176 and 177 [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - plant or tree

Scene Description: shown here as figs. 176 and 177 [cf. FontNotes]

view of basin - fragment

INFORMATION

FontID: 23470KAL
Museum and Inventory Number: Kalmar läns Museum
Church/Chapel: Storkyrkan / Maryakyrkan / Bykyrkan [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas [later St. Mary]
Church Location: [NB: the disappeared church was located in the Gamla staden, west of Kalmar castle; only part of the old cemetery remains now]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Kalmar län
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared church of which only the old cemetery remains is the Gamla staden [old town], off Slottsvägen, W of Kalmar slott
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Norra Möre härad, Kalmar kn
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: original church ca. 1200; expanded/modified 14th and 15thC -- badly damaged in the Kalmar War (1611-1613) -- the church was blown up in 1678 -- documented in Martin Olsson's Kalmar gamla stads kyrkor (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1974-1976) [http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/handle/raa/7003?show=full]
Martin Olsson's Kalmar gamla stads kyrkor (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1974-1976) [http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/handle/raa/7003?show=full] [accessed 6 October 2021] mentions and illustrates a fragment (44 x 45 cm] of a Romanesque limestone font found in 1922 in the former churchyard of the disappeared Storkyrkan of Kalmar, the font being originally four-sided; Olsson notes that the fragment is at the KLM without inventory number, and describes the fragment as having animals on it [lion, unicorn, and palmette-like vegetation, and suggests a date in the 13th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.6604, 16.3517
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 39′ 37.44″ N, 16° 21′ 6.12″ E
UTM: 33V 582856 6280401