Gorsku / Górsku / Gorzk
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view of font
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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?
Scene Description: seen here on the right
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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 8
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 16
Scene Description: one in each of the spandrels of the arcade
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design element - motifs - plant or tree
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - unicorn
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fragment romańsko-gotyckiej misy chrzcielnej z przedstawieniem jednorożca"
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified
Scene Description: a dragon on the left?
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: " Górsk, Gmina Zławieś Wielka, kościół św. Krzyża"
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - plant or tree?
Scene Description: one on each side, very stylised
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24029GOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Transitional? / Gothic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Gorsk kosciol / Kościół w Górsku / Kościół Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego w Górsku
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Previous Font Location(s): was the font originally from Stary Toruń, as some sources claim??
Church Address: Wiejska 10, 87-134 Górsk, Poland
Site Location: Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Gmina Zławieś Wielka, Poland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off county road 80, on the N banks of the Vistula river, 14 km WNW of Toruń, 30 km E of Bydgoszcz
Additional Comments: export font? Gotland? / composite font? (are the three parts original?)
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in ToruńTour [http://toruntour.pl/4841/gorsk] [accessed 15 June 2022] describes and illustrates a baptismal font made of Gotland limestone in the first half of the 14th century here, but may have been brought here in the 17th century from a farm in thea area of Toruń, where it was being used as a water trough for the animals. Originally, though, rumour has it that it was made on Gotland and exported to the church of Stary Toruń, which had intensive trade with Gotland. This source further notes that it is similar fonts in Chełmno region: in Rogów near Toruń, in the church of St. Mikołaj Grudziądz and in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Chełmno itself. The octagonal basin is described as containg a arcade with eight refoiled arch-heads, five of which are filled with fabulous beasts (dragon, unicorn, etc.) while the remaing three have foliage and plants motifs. The base, however, is rather atypical for a Gotland font: an octagonal truncated pyramid of eight sides, with a roll moulding atop, each side carved with a stylised plant(?), raised on a plain octagonal lower base/plinth. No cover present.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 34U 327268 5881742
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.057222, 18.4225
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 3′ 26″ N, 18° 25′ 21″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone