Mariefred
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Foto av Mariefreds kyrka, mars 2009."
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 2009 by Raphael Saulus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mariefredskyrka.jpeg] [accessed 21 July 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: " Interiör från sv:Mariefreds kyrka. Altaruppsatsen i Mariefreds kyrka skulpterades 1689-1690 av hovbildhuggaren Caspar Schröder (1652-1710)." -- the wooden font is visible to the left of the altar, beneath the painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fredrik Tersmeden, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2013 by Fredrik Tersmeden [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mariefreds_kyrka,_interiör.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2022]
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view of church interior - lapidarium
![Source caption: "Mariefreds kyrka [...] Detalj av inventarier och byggnadsmatrial." -- is that the decorated basin of an early font or a large capital on the right pillar?](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0220721014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mariefreds kyrka [...] Detalj av inventarier och byggnadsmatrial." -- is that the decorated basin of an early font or a large capital on the right pillar?
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Image Source: digital image of a 1909 B&W photograph by Sigurd Wallin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mariefreds_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200097587.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24130MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Mariefreds Kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: between 1493 and 1527 it was the site of the Monasterium pacis Mariæ, a Carthusian monastery; present church built 1621-1624; burned down 1682; re-built 1697
Church Address: Klostergatan / Kyrkogatan 4 / Bergsgatan 1, 64730 Mariefred, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 159 101 90
Site Location: Södermanland, Södermanlands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located just S of Slottsbrinken, E of highway E20, abouth halfway between Strängnäs (NW) and Södertälje (SE)
Ecclesiastic Region: Strängnäs stift
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of wood, now painted; it consists of a round basin on a round moulded pedestal base; font cover to match, also painted. [NB: there may be a decorated basin in the lapidarium that, together with other objects, may have originated in the church of the monastery which preceded this church on the same site].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Charlotta Nordfeldt, 2022 for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 626816 6570964
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 59.2586, 17.2243
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 59° 15′ 30.96″ N, 17° 13′ 27.48″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th - 18th cemtury?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome-shaped; painted wood; metal or gilded finial