Ramnes / Ravneneset

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design element - architectural - arch or window - 4

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1 January 1899 drawing by Johan Meyer, in the Riksantikvaren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAMNES_KIRKE_-_an10071112081002.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2022]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - beaded-tape

Scene Description: very eroded now

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1 January 1899 drawing by Johan Meyer, in the Riksantikvaren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAMNES_KIRKE_-_an10071112081002.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2022]

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head - 4

Scene Description: two of them appear human, while the other two are animal

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1 January 1899 drawing by Johan Meyer, in the Riksantikvaren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAMNES_KIRKE_-_an10071112081002.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Ramnes kirke, en hvitkalket steinkirke fra middelalderen i Tønsberg kommune i Vestfold og Telemark fylke. Kirkegård/gravlund innrammet av hvitt stakittgjerde og med gravsteiner/gravstøtter/gravminner utenfor kirkebygningen. Ramnesveien passerer forbi rett utenfor kirkegårdsporten."

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Image Source: digital photograph 25 June 2021 by Wolfmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAMNES_KIRKE_Ramnesveien_Tønsberg,_Norway_2021-06-25_Kirkegård_gravsteiner_flombelyst_sommernatt_overskyet_nattehimmel_(Medieval_church_Cemetery_Floodlight_Summer_night)_etc_IMG_6890.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2022]

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view of church interior - details

Scene Description: Source caption: "plan, vestfasade (mål 1:200) Døpefont _ (mål 1:5) Dørbeslag, vestportalen og korbuens kapitel (1:5) _ (FF kat.nr. 1240) [...] Bildet er hentet fra Riksantikvaren."

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Image Source: digital image of a 1 January 1899 drawing by Johan Meyer, in the Riksantikvaren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAMNES_KIRKE_-_an10071112081002.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2022]

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view of font - plan and elevation

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1 January 1899 drawing by Johan Meyer, in the Riksantikvaren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAMNES_KIRKE_-_an10071112081002.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24338RAM
Church/Chapel: Ramnes Kirke / Kyrkje
Church Location: Ramnesveien 853, 3175 Ramnes, Norway -- Tel.: +47 409 03 100
Country Name: Norway
Location: Vestfold
Directions to Site: Located off (W) county road 35, W of highway E18, in the municipality and 12-13 km NNW of Tønsberg
Ecclesiastic Region: Tunsberg Bispedømme
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mona Bramer Solhaug for sharing her baptismal font information with BSI
Church Notes: 12thC(?) church; modified 17thC
Listed and illustrated in Solhaug (2001) as tha surviving base of a Gotland font made ca, 1200-1250 of limestone and imported into Norway; Solhaugh (ibid.) further suggests similarities with the base at Fole (Gotland) and the work of the Calcarius workshop. The old base has been fitted with a later wooden basin, 17th- or 18th-century, painted in the 18th century. . 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."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.346451, 10.254632
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 20′ 47.23″ N, 10° 15′ 16.67″ E
UTM: 32V 571353 6579303

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

REFERENCES

Solhaug, Mona Bramer, Middelalderens døpefonter i Norge, Oslo: Unipub forlag -- Det historisk filosofiske fakultetet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001