Rodene No. 2 / Rödene / Rödened / Rödhene / Rödinge

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 May 1995 by Lennart Karlsson [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=25795] [accessed 31 January 2016]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 May 1995 by Lennart Karlsson [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=25795] [accessed 31 January 2016]

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: the shape suggests the body of a dragon

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph taken 16 May 1995 by Lennart Karlsson [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=25795] [accessed 31 January 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 May 1995 by Lennart Karlsson [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=25795] [accessed 31 January 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: photograph taken 10 January 2000 by John-Björn Huber [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=24001] [accessed 31 January 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00177ROD

Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum

Church/Chapel: Rödenes kyrka [burned down in 1834]

Church Location: Rödene, Alingsås NO, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Rödene is located in the municipality and N of Alingsås, E of the E20

Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborg Stift

Historical Region: Kullings härad

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Church Notes: there does not appear to be a surviving church building at Rödene any longer; the church burned down in 1834

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The use of the same museum inventory number for the two fonts listed for Rödene in Roosval (1917) is confusing, but the fonts are labelled "RödeneI" and "Rödene II", the first one being the one described and illustrated by Hanna Rydh [cf. BSI entry for Rödene No. 1]. The second font is noted and illustrated by Roosval himself. Baptismal font of sandstone consisting a cylindrical basin decorated with a flat moulding below the upper rim, then a large writhing acanthus vine the shape of which suggests the body of a dragon; on a round lower base of roughly conical shape decorated with a roll moulding. Noted in Hallbäck (1963). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F3] as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200 by a regional workshop. The font was photographed in 1995 and 2000 at the SHM [NB: the photographs show the font on a wooden pallet, an indication that it was likely taken at the SHM's remote storage facility, and not at the SHM's exhibition areas]; the two pieces are probably not the complete font, lacking the stem that must have originally brought it to the expected height]; date given as "högmedeltid".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.96125, 12.572306

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57 ° 57 '40.5 "N, 12 ° 34' 20.3" E

UTM: 33V 356365 6426976

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: 2

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 6 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm* / **

Basin Depth: 18 cm*

Basin Total Height: 48 cm* / **

Notes on Measurements: * Roosval (1917: 65) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F3]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel: Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel, 1963

Mehling, Franz N., Spain: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985