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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Fon Church in Re Vestfold."
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Image Source: digital photograph 19 July 2011 by Krg / Karl Ragnar Gjertsen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Re_Fon_krk.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fon kirke i Re"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fiskerstrand, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 12 August 2018 by Peter Fiskerstrand [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fon_kirke_002.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24334FON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, base only
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font
Church / Chapel Name: Fon Kirke / Foden kirke / kyrkje
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: 12thC(?) church; re-built or modified 1839
Church Address: Fonsveien 297, 3174 Revetal, Norway
Site Location: Vestfold og Telemark, Norway, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) county road 35, in the municipality and about 20 km NNW of Tønsberg
Ecclesiastic Region: Tungsberg Bispedømme
Additional Comments: altered font (the basin part is a later addition)
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Solhaug (2001) as a fragment of the basin underbowl and a round pedestal base surviving from a medieval baptismal font made of limestone and imported from Gotland; dated 1200-1225. No cover present. Mentioned in Gravgaver [https://www.gravgaver.no/gotland-dopefonter.htm] [accessed 2 October 2022] as the lower basin fragment of 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." The entry for this church in Den Norske Kirke [https://web.archive.org/web/20140108202951/http://www.re.kirken.no/index.phtml?pid=970] [accessed 3 October 2022] mentions two fonts in this church: the present font that was donated in 1714, as attested by the inscription on it, and a fragment of a medieval font probably from Gotland: "Den døpefonten som er i bruk i dag, bærer innskriften: Givet til fodens kirke anno 1714/ gud til ære wed jørgen olufssøn mandal oc hans hustrue bente mus. På dåpsfatet av messing står det: Til Guds Ære Givet til Fodens Kirke aff Jørgen Mandal oc Bente Mus Anno 1714. Denne døpefonten er ikke den første i Fon kirke. Sannsynligvis stammer søylen til fonten fra Gotland og kan så med en viss sikkerhet dateres tilbake til 1200-tallet, men vi har ikke så sikre data om dette som vi har i Våle kirke og i Ramnes kirke." The entry for this church in Norske Kirker [https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/vestfold/fon-kirke/] [accessed 3 October 2022] notes that the three-part pedestal is made of Gotland limestone and dates from the 13th century, wheras the basin, also of limestone, and the baptismal dish both date from 1714; the source further mentions a wooden font had been used from the time the old stone basin broke and 1714: "Den tredelte søylen er av gotlandsk kalkstein og dateres til 1200-tallet. Overdelen (også av kalkstein) er fra 1714. Dåpsfatet i messing er også fra 1714. En periode før 1714 brukte man en trrefont etter at øvre del av den gamle fonten var blitt ødelagt."
The medieval font is noted in the Store norse leksikon [https://snl.no/Fon_kirke] [accessed 3 October 2022].
The medieval font is noted in the Store norse leksikon [https://snl.no/Fon_kirke] [accessed 3 October 2022].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mona Bramer Solhaug for sharing her baptismal font information with BSI
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 568477 6586559
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 59.412072, 10.206374
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 59° 24′ 43.46″ N, 10° 12′ 22.94″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Height of Base: 59 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Solhaug (2001)
REFERENCES
- Solhaug, Mona Bramer, Middelalderens døpefonter i Norge, Oslo: Unipub forlag -- Det historisk filosofiske fakultetet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001, p. 43-44 and 128 fig. no. 41