Eidanger
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing in the Riksantikvaren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eidanger_kirke_-_an10071202162001.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PD Norway
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing in the Riksantikvaren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eidanger_kirke_-_an10071202162001.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PD Norway
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eidanger church in Porsgrunn county, Telemark, Norway"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohuslen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2011 by Bohuslen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eidanger_kirke,_Porsgrunn_kommune,_Telemark.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2022]
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view of font - base
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bildet er hentet fra Riksantikvaren. Fot av døpefont "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing in the Riksantikvaren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eidanger_kirke_-_an10071202162001.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PD Norway
INFORMATION
FontID: 24333EID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)
Church/Chapel: Eidanger Kirke / kyrkje
Church Location: Schøningsveg 17, 3946 Porsgrunn, Norway
Country Name: Norway
Location: Vestfold og Telemark
Directions to Site: Located off (W) highway E18, in the municipality and 2-3 km SE of Porsgrunn, about 16 km WNW of Larvik
Ecclesiastic Region: Borg bispedømme
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mona Bramer Solhaug for sharing her baptismal font information with BSI
Church Notes: 12thC(?); modified 1787 and 1852; renovated several times in the 20thC
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Solhaug (2001) as the surviving base of a medieval Gotland font of the 13th centuryimported into Norway; the two fragments, a moulded cylindrical stem and a moulded circular base; the font was restored [cf. infra]. Mentioned in Gravgaver [https://www.gravgaver.no/gotland-dopefonter.htm] [accessed 2 October 2022] as one of twelve medieval fonts imported from Gotland into Norway: "Borre (av kummen er kun fragmenter bevart), Eidanger (kun fot), Fon (nederste del av kummen), Hidra (skaft og fot), Holmedal (skaft og fot), Hvaler, Nøtterøy (kun underdel), Ramnes (skaft og fot, fire hoder skyter ut fra vulsten), Sannidal, Sæbø, Tanum, Våle." Noted and illustrated in Norske Kirker [https://www.norske-kirker.net/tag/ryde-og-berg/page/3/] [accessed 3 October 2022] as an old font restored in the 1890s: "Døpefonten av stein skal være svært gammel, men ble omhugget i 1890-årene." [NB: the stem and lower base appear to be the original, but the basin may be a total new addition -- Solhaug illustrates both an earlier drawing showing only the base and her own photograph showing the full restored font]. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.118528, 9.69925
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 7′ 6.7″ N, 9° 41′ 57.3″ E
UTM: 32V 540035 6553460
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round (mounted) [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Interior Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Exterior Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]