Kuressaare
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - head
Scene Description: one such seen here in the spandrel
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Image Source: digital photograph [no source given] supplied by Pol Herman
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animal - mammal - quadruped - passant - 8
Scene Description: comic-like; some may be lions
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Image Source: digital photograph [no source given] supplied by Pol Herman
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design element - architectural - arch-head or circle - patterned - nail-head - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph [no source given] supplied by Pol Herman
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design element - motifs - nail-head
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Image Source: digital photograph [no source given] supplied by Pol Herman
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph [no source given] supplied by Pol Herman
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kuressaare Laurentiuse kirik"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Metsavend, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 Aougust 2009 by Metsavend [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KuressaareLaurentiuseKirik.JPG] [accessed 15 April 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kuressaare Laurentiuse kirik. Käimas on restaureerimistööd."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ivo Kruusamägi, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 6 August 2009 by Ivo Kruusamägi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuressaare's_St._Lawrence's_church_interior.JPG] [accessed 15 April 2023]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph in Wayfarers Churches [http://www.teelistekirikud.ekn.ee/en_kirik.php?id=24&mk=Saaremaa] [accessed 15 April 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24677KUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Laurentiuse kirik
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Tallina 13, Kuressaare, 93819 Saare County, Estonia -- Tel.: +372 453 6560
Country Name: Estonia
Location: Saaremaa, Saaremaa
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of roads 76, 77 and 78, on the island of Saarema
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Ösel-Wiek]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Fröjelgruppen?
Cognate Fonts: Other fonts of this group (Fröjel, etc.)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: Church of St. Laurentius built 1930 on the site of two previous churches -- the font was originally from Anseküla
Font Notes:
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A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 19 September 2022) notes: "The Laurentius Church was built in the 1830s. There were two predecessing churches here, the first of which was destroyed in the Great Northern War and the second burnt to the ground in 1828. The baptismal font comes from Anseküla Church, which burnt down in 1944. It was probably made in Gotland in the 14th century and depicts fantastic animals representing evil spirits." Noted in the Visit Estonia site [https://www.visitestonia.com/en/kuressaare-st-laurence-church] [accessed 15 April 2023]: "Unique baptismal stone comes from crushed in 1944 Anseküla medieval church". Ditto in the corresponding Spotting History site [https://www.spottinghistory.com/view/503/st-lawrences-church/] [accessed 15 April 2023]: "the medieval babtismal [sic] stone from the Anseküla church destroyed in 1944." The basin is very similar to others in the Gotland series produced by the 'Fröjelgruppen' [cf. other BSI entries]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.253892, 22.486772
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 15' 14' 'N, 22° 29' 12.38'' E
UTM: 34V 587255 6457940
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal