Jala / Jäla
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Apostle or saint - unidentified
Scene Description: in the left arch
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2010 by Gunnar Creutz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_Dopfunt_detalj_2010-04-22_Bild_1.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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Apostle or saint - unidentified
Scene Description: in the right arch
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2010 by Gunnar Creutz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_Dopfunt_detalj_2010-04-22_Bild_2.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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Apostle or saint - unidentified
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2010 by Gunnar Creutz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_Dopfunt_detalj_2010-04-22_Bild_3.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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Apostle or saint - unidentified
Scene Description: in the right arch
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 April 2010 by Achird [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medeltida_dopfunt_i_Jäla_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - detail
Scene Description: the scene occupies two arches but the column tha supports the arch in the centre has been stopped well below the capital to allow for the hands of the figure on the left of Christ
angel
Scene Description: in the left arch
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 April 2010 by Achird [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medeltida_dopfunt_i_Jäla_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - decorated arches - columns with capitals
Scene Description: some of the arches do not close the semicircle [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 April 2010 by Achird [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medeltida_dopfunt_i_Jäla_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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view of basin
Scene Description: the font appears to have been painted or coated at the time -- Source caption: "Dopfunt, kalksten, 1100-talet, detalj, relief på cuppan."
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Image Source: digital image [2509-010.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200159702.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920707F2] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920707F2] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920707F2] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920707F2] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2010 by Nasko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_Västergötland_Sweden_3.JPG] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital image [2509-001.tif] of a 21 August 1894 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200159692.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2010 by Nasko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_Västergötland_Sweden_2.JPG] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gunnar Creutz, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2010 by Gunnar Creutz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_i_Vilske_härad.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: notice the position of the font on the left [north] side, by the pulpit
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Image Source: digital image [2509-006.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200159697.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920707F2] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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view of font - upper view
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/057577/images/57577_91017507] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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view of font in context - east side
Scene Description: the font appears to have been painted or coated at the time -- Source caption: "Dopfunt, kalksten, 1100-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [2509-009.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jäla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200159701.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00120JAL
Church/Chapel: Jäla kyrka
Church Location: Jäla 4, 521 56 Floby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 515 72 38 80
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O-2648, on the NW shore of the Ripelången, SW and in the municipality of Falköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Vilske härad, Skaraborgs län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Jälamästaren / Skaragruppen [SHM]
Church Notes: church originally 12thC; present church re-built 1787 on same site; new tower in 1824 to replace the medieval one; renovated 1924 -- The 12thC Jälaskrinet, a shrine of the 'kyrkobyggnadstyp', from this church is now in the Västergötland Museum in Skara
Baptismal font noted in Hallbäck (1971). Nordstrom (1984) mentions a baptism scene on this font. Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.:: 920707F2] made of sandstone [other sources give limestone] in the late-12th century decorated with an arcade of eight arches housing a Baptism of Christ scene and other holy figures. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with scenes (?) housed in an arcade of eight round arches; one of the scenes, the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, occupies two of the arches; the others have haloed unidentified figures [Apostles? Saints?] and one angel; the arcade is made of round arches with multiple arch-heads, some of them not entirely closed, resembling palm trees in which the trunk is the column that supports the arches; the one in the middle of the Baptism scene is broken off to allow for the hands of the figure on the left [John the Baptist?] to come close to Christ's head in the other arch; raised on a round pedestal base with multiple roll mouldings, and a plinth with kneeling stone. The font is much damaged around the upper rim and has large vertical through cracks on the sides, all now repaired. No font cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
58.019167,
13.359722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
58° 1′ 9″ N,
13° 21′ 35″ E
UTM: 33V 403102 6432021
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone? / limestone?
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.:920707F2]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; r["References"]
Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984