Kalmar no. 1

INFORMATION

Font ID: 23472KAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1240?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque
Museum: Kalmar läns Museum, Inv. Nr,: 22766
Church / Chapel Name: Kalmar Dominikanerkloster [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Notes: a Dominican convent [Dominikanerkloster] was established here in the 13thC; a nunnery [S:t Johannes nunnekloster] of the same order was founded here after 1299, and has its own church dedicated to St. John the Baptist; the nunnery was abandoned in 1505, becoming a storage place for the army, and later demolished; the exact location is not known
Church Address: [address and coordinates of the original convent unknown]
Site Location: Småland, Kalmar län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: [location of the original convent unknown]
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Norra Möre härad, Kalmar kn
Font Notes:
Borg (2002) reports and illustrates a fragment of the basin of a medieval font, now in the Kalmar läns Museum [Inv. Nr,: 22766]; Borg (ibid.) identifies the material as Gotland limestone and suggests a date. ca. 1240.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: fragment