Tollsjo / Töllsjö
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view of font, baptismal dish and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph by Carina Carlsson, in Kringla [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbrb/21420000043352] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by Carina Carlsson, in Kringla [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbrb/21420000043352] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?
Scene Description: a large one seen here to the right of the Crucifixion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F2] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F2] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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animal - bird?
Scene Description: to the right of the Tree of Life
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F2] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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animal - mammal - quadruped?
Scene Description: possibly a quadruped facing left; too eroded for identification -- the pillar on the left must be part of an arcade
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F2] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the damages to the upper rim, as well as a drilled hole that may have housed an anchoring for a font cover -- not clear whether a centre drain hole exists or it is just a depression visible here
view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Schalk, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2009 by Matthias Schalk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Töllsjö-kyrka.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: showing the later font in the northeast corner
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Image Source: digital image [2476-006.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Töllsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169646.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00156TOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Töllsjö kyrka
Font Location in Church: inside the church, in the NE corner
Church Address: Morjhult 6, 517 70 Töllsjö, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 33 15 10 30
Site Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the O1758, W of road 180, E of highway E20, in the municipality of Bollebygd, about 25 km NW of Borås
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Additional Comments: damaged font (very eroded; original base missing) / abandoned font / restored font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1966) as the very weathered basin of a 13th-century baptismal font decorated with an arcade of six arches containing: a lilly, a cross, a bird, another animal and a Crucifix. Nordström (1967) identifies a Crucifixion is on this font. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200 by a regional workshop; the basin is extremely weathered but an arcade of seven arches is still discernible; there is a rope moulding at the bottom of the underbowl; the base is a modern replacement; no drain, no lining; the SHM entry mentions a Crucifixion, a bird and a cross, and a plat or tree (Tree of Life?) as the identifiable motifs. The church has a later font that was in use at some point; in old photographs it is located at the northeast end; it is probably 17th-century or later. The medieval font has taken its place now [ca. 2020] at the northeast corner; it is in use with a brass baptismal dish and is provided with a cake-shaped font cover of the same metal [cf. ImageFileNo.1210319020 in ImagesArea].
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 359282 6408389
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.795375, 12.632556
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 47′ 43.35″ N, 12° 37′ 57.2″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system [but there is a depression at the centre of the inner bain]
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm**
Basin Total Height: 50 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 83 cm* [includes modern base [cf. FontNotes]]
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1966) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F2]
REFERENCES
- Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966, s. 91ff, 184
- Nordström, Folke, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Uppland", Upplands kyrkor, 1967