Hornborga
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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - Christ holding processional ctoss in his left hand - John the Baptist holding Christ's right arm with his left hand- holding book with his right hand - large bird present - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950517F9#] [accessed 24 December 2020]
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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - Christ holding processional ctoss in his left hand - John the Baptist holding Christ's right arm with his left hand- holding book with his right hand - large bird present - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950517F9#] [accessed 24 December 2020]
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B01: angel - Paschal candle
Scene Description: may be part of the Baptism of Christ scene, as it precedes it on the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950517F9#] [accessed 24 December 2020]
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B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - Christ holding processional ctoss in his left hand - John the Baptist holding Christ's right arm with his left hand- holding book with his right hand - large bird present
Scene Description: the angel in the left arch may also be part of it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950517F9#] [accessed 24 December 2020]
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B03: human figure - male - warrior - with sword in the right hand - with long shield in the left hand - fighting a dragon
Scene Description: St.Michael and the dragon?
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950517F9#] [accessed 24 December 2020]
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B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - female centaur - with shield - warrior - on horseback - with bow and arrow - fighting
Scene Description: Battle scene between Rider and Centaur.
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950517F9#] [accessed 24 December 2020]
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B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - female centaur - with shield - warrior - on horseback - with bow and arrow - fighting - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950517F9#] [accessed 24 December 2020]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: in the scenes that spread over two arches there is no central support
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Image Source: digital image [9924-011.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornborga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200158252.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - foliage - varied
Scene Description: seen here in two of the spandrels of the arcade
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Image Source: digital image [9924-016.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornborga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200158257.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950517F9#] [accessed 24 December 2020]
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symbol - triquetra
Scene Description: seen here in two of the spandrels of the arcade
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Image Source: digital image [9924-014.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornborga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200158255.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]
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view of basin
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 1997 by BSI
view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 1997 by BSI
view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 1997 by BSI
view of basin - projection
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Wolter Gahn in Roosval (1917: fig. 55)
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view of basin - projection
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Image Source: digital image [9924-006.tif] of a drawing by Hulda Kristina Andersson in P.A. Säves berättelser, 1862, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornborga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200158247.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]
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view of church exterior - looking northeast
Scene Description: the restored remains of the demolished church
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Image Source: digital image [9924-001.tif] of an undated photograph taken by W. Polanski, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornborga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200158160.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital image [9924-003.tif] of an undated drawing from Peringskiölds Monumenta, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornborga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200158244.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Wolter Gahn in Roosval (1917: fig. 54)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image [9924-004.tif] of a 1916 drawing, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornborga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200158245.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image [9924-005.tif] of a drawing by Hulda Kristina Andersson in P.A. Säves berättelser, 1862, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornborga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200158246.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]
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view of font
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image [9924-010.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornborga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200158251.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]
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view of font
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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.: 950517F9] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950517F9#] [accessed 24 December 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: on display at the SHM
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 1997 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 00187HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm
Church/Chapel: Hornborga kyrka [in ruins]
Church Location: Hornborga kyrkoruin, 521 98 Falköping, Sweden [NB: coordinates given are for the church at Broddetorp, nearest available location]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: The ruins of the demolished church of Hornborga are located SW of Broddetorp, about 15 km SE of Skara, about 20 km NNE of Falköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Gudhems härad
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Othelric? / Skaragruppen [SHM]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: 12thC church abandoned 1818; demolished 1821; ruins remain -- afterwards Bolum, Hornborga and Sätuna shared the church at Broddetorp
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated by Ellen Fryklund in Roosval (1917). Noted in Hallbäck (1971). Chalice-shaped -cylindrical basin on round base- baptismal font now [June 1997] at the Statens Hitoriska Museum in Stockholm. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9] as a Skaragruppen baptismal font made of sandstone in the late-12th century. Svenska kyrkan [www.svenskakyrkan.se/savare/harjevad-kyrka] [accessed 28 February 2020] gives master Othelric as the carver of the fonts at Härjevad, Hornborga, Norra Härene, Öttum, Skeby, Västerplana and of the church of Skälvum. On-site notes: the sides of the basin have several scenes [L->R]: 1)a baptismal scene depicts a male figure, not haloed, in the water holding a processional cross in his left hand; his right hand is being held by the second male figure's left hand, to his right [the viewer's left]; this second figure holds a book in his right hand; a large, eagle-like bird, stands on the left ; is it Christ's baptism?; 2)a male figure armed with a sword and shield [St. Michael?] fights a tail-coiled dragon; 3)a fight scene between a mounted warrior (?) and a [female?] centaur; the latter is unarmed and protects itself with a shield; 4)an angel holds a Pascal candle in his right hand and a book in his left. The underbowl and the round base are plain.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 418558 6463812
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindical (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 7.5-9 cm**
Diameter (inside rim): 49 cm* / 48 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm* / 64-65 cm** / 65 cm***
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 28 cm**
Basin Total Height: 45 cm**
Height of Base: 35 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm* / 80 cm** / 84 cm***
Notes on Measurements: * Roosval (1917: 43) / ** BSI on-site at the SHM / *** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F9]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; p. 283
Karlsson, Lennart, "Tradition och förnyelse", 1985
Mehling, Franz N., Spain: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985
Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984