Vireda
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Apostle or saint - St. Lawrence - with grill
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © IR, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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animal - bird
Scene Description: the bird with folded wings, passant to the right -- notice the large 'capitals' of the supporting columns
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Image Source: digital image [2564-081.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1911 by Algot Friberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090135.jpg]
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animal - bird - passant
Scene Description: passant to the right; unlike the other one in this font, its wings are open
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Image Source: digital image [2564-078.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1911 by Algot Friberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090132.jpg]
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animal - mammal - deer - passant-regardant
Scene Description: seen here in the left arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © IR, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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animal - mammal - deer or goat - passant
Scene Description: seen here in the centre arch, with either a long tongue hanging out or something in its mouth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © IR, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded tape - columns with capitals
Scene Description: the arch-heads are decorated with beaded-tape pattern; the capitals are medallion-shaped and decorated with floral motifs inside, massive in relation to the columns, which are very short
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © IR, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: many of them, all around the lower side of the basin; mostly grouped in threes
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Image Source: digital image [2564-080.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1911 by Algot Friberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090134.jpg]
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: a number of them, between most of the heads
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - braid
Scene Description: damaged in several spots
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage - varied
Scene Description: some of them appear to be triquetras
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © IR, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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human figure - head, face or mask
Scene Description: a whole row of them below the rope moulding
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "manshuvuden, foten"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910703F2] [accessed 28 April 2022]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Laurentius"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910703F2] [accessed 28 April 2022]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "fyrfoting med fana (Agnus Dei?)"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910703F2] [accessed 28 April 2022]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "drake - basilisk"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910703F2] [accessed 28 April 2022]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "fågel"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910703F2] [accessed 28 April 2022]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kemitsv, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2009 by Kemitsv [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.Photo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2014 by L.G.Foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: showing the old font on the left [north] side, east of the pulpit
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Image Source: digital image [2564-037.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200089925.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2020]
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view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2014 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_2014-07-17-055.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: a goat or deer in the left arch, a man carrying an object in the right arch [St Lawrence and his grill?]
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Image Source: digital image [2564-079.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1911 by Algot Friberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090133.jpg]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image [2564-082.TIF] of an undated drawing by Olof Hermelin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090136.jpg]
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view of font
Scene Description: left arch: a deer carrying something in its mouth? -- right arch: much eroded; an avian creature?
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Image Source: digital image [2564-084.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1920 by Sven Brandel, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090138.jpg]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910703F2] [accessed 28 April 2022]
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view of font - northwest side
Scene Description: NB: the font has been moved at least twice inside the church; it must have been originally at the west end, near the entranceway; an earlier photograph shows the font also at the east end, but on the opposite [north] side, by the pulpit; seen here, in 2011, in the southeast corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © IR, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the southeast corner of the nave
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2011 by IR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vireda_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2020]
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view of iconographic program
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Blomqvist (1929)
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