Sannidal
Image copyright © Trond Strandsberg, 2007
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Picture of Sannidal kirke (Telemark - Norway)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trond Strandsberg, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 22 September 2007 by Trond Strandsberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sannidal_kirke_TRS_070922_055.jpg] [accessed 6 October 2022]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirkesøk / Den Norske Kirke, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirkesøk [https://kirkesok.no/kirke/081500101] [accessed 6 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirkesøk / Den Norske Kirke, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirkesøk [https://kirkesok.no/kirke/081500101] [accessed 6 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © olavumoe, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 1 February 2011 by olavumoe [https://www.flickr.com/photos/52097997@N04/5408109267] [accessed 6 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 24339SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font
Cognate Fonts: metal insert in place [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Sannidal Kirke / Kyrkje / St Lavrans Kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, by the pulpit
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence, Laurentius] [original church dedication]
Church Notes: former 13thC(?) stave church present church built 1771 on a new site N of the old one
Church Address: Gamle Sørlandske 23, 3766 Sannidal, Norway -- Tel.: +47 35 99 21 97
Site Location: Vestfold og Telemark, Norway, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the old road from Oslo to Kristiansand, just N of highway E18, in the municipality and 10-12 km NW of Kragerø
Ecclesiastic Region: Agder og Telemark bispedømme
Additional Comments: moved font (originally from the medieval church)
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Solhaug (2001) as a baptismal font made of Gotland limestone ca. 1225-1300 and imported into Norway; Solhaug (ibid.) notes that the basin area where a drain hole might go is filled with cement, tha the shaft has no drain hole at all but the lower base has a large drain hole [this apparent problem could be explained by the fact that font parts were made in huge numbers on Gotland, and the demand for font sets mat have forced the suppliers with parts that were not necessarily been intended to fit together]. 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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mona Bramer Solhaug for sharing her baptismal font information with BSI
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 515352 6528205
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.893333, 9.266389
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 53′ 36″ N, 9° 15′ 59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: yes, filled with cement [cf. FontNotes]
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*
Basin Depth: 19 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 76 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. 80 and fig. no. 128 on p. 160