Krämarekapellet, Medieval chapel in Saint Peter's Church, Malmö, Sweden
Krämarekapellet is a chapel within Saint Peter's Church, featuring limestone sculptures on its exterior walls, including three preserved evangelist symbols on supporting pillars and religious figures on the western gable. The space now functions as a baptistery and is fitted with ancient gravestones covering the floor from an early 20th-century restoration.
The chapel was built around 1460 following the collapse of Saint Peter's Church tower in 1442, with its first mention in archives dating to 1473. This early construction made it one of the oldest parts of the current church structure.
The interior walls display Nordic medieval paintings from two distinct periods, featuring significant motifs like Christ as Judge and Christ in the Wine Press. These frescoes reflect the religious messages that visitors would have encountered when entering the space.
The interior is accessible to visitors as part of the church space and can be easily entered to view the baptistery and the historic gravestones preserved on the floor. Daylight through the existing windows provides the best viewing conditions for observing the wall paintings.
The western gable displays a series of saint sculptures carved from chalk stone plates, with the figures of the Virgin Mary and Jesus being twice the size of the other saints. This unusual scale emphasizes their central role in the visual composition.
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