Bolum nr. Axvall / Buleem

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Christ - Agnus Dei - Tree of Life - cross

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 1997 by BSI

Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Adam, Eve and the Serpent

Scene Description: The Fall of Man

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 1997 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster? - quadruped

Scene Description: the back is of a quadruped but the head appears simian or semi-human

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [Föremåls-ID 950517F6]

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animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: one of the back legs is thrown back and up, looking like a second tail; highly stylised, like all the carvings on this font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [Föremåls-ID 950517F6]

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design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [Föremåls-ID 950517F6]

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human figure - flower

Scene Description: Source caption: "vid kors knäfallande gestalt", which does not identify the shape as a person

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [Föremåls-ID 950517F6]

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information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 17 June 1997 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Roosval (2017: fig. 5-6)

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view of basin

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Roosval (2017: fig. 7-8)

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view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [Föremåls-ID 950517F6]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: as displayed in the SHM in June 1997 [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: early-18thC drawing of the disappeared parish church of Bolum

Image Source: digital image of a 1710s drawing by Johan Peringskiöld (1654-1720) [Kulturmiljöbild: 16000200159216] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolum.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2017]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Place of Bolum old church, probably built in the 12th century and demolished around 1820. Current building was built 1874 on the same location as the old church and was in use as a school until the 1950s. Now used as a private residence."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2016 by Joel Grafström [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolums_gamla_kyrkplats_och_gamla_småskola_20160725.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Hildebrand (1907: fig. 125)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00193BOL

Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm

Church/Chapel: Bolums kyrka [Bolums gamla kyrka demolished ca. 1820]

Church Location: [NB: address of the new church: Falköpingsvägen, 521 98 Falköping, Sweden]

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located off the O2687, 5-7 km S of Axvall, about 10 km SE of Skara, in the municipality of Falköping [the font is now in the Statens Historiska museum of Stockholm]

Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift

Historical Region: Valle härad

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bolumgruppen [SHM]

Cognate Fonts: the font from Rödhene

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lennart Karlsson and the Statens Historiska Museum staff for their generous help in documenting this font

Church Notes: 12thC medieval church was demolished ca . 1820

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and Illustrated in Hildebrand (1907); also in Champeaux (1972), who gives its date as the early 12th century. On-site notes: roughly square-shaped basin of a baptismal font, now disused [in the SHM]; the upper part of the basin has a broad flat moulding with decorated sides, though only one appears to retain its original carving, an animal, probably a lion, passant to the right, with one of the back legs thrown back and up, looking like a second tail; the tail itself coils around the body of the animal and has a bushy ending; the contiguous side to the right has checkered pattern, much worn now; there is considerable damage to this side, apparently from the anchoring of an old font cover; the side of the basin corresponding to the three-legged beast has a clearly-male image on the left, a tangled bush in the centre and a female figure on the right, believed to represent the Fall of Adam and Eve; on the contiguous side to the right, the one below the checkered pattern, has an anatomically-challenged Agnus Dei [it looks like a horse] and a Tree-of-Life (?); the side to the right of the Agnus Dei has another confusing animal, a quadruped with a simian head; the next side to the right has a kneeling human; the carving is vigorous -as the tangled interlacings show- but very stylised, perhaps sketchy; there is no base or cover present [NB: the font is now -June 1997- at the Statens Historiska Museum of Stockholm]. Described and illustrated in Medeltidens bildvärld [Föremåls-ID 950517F6] as a "Bolumgruppen " batismal font made of sandstone in the mid-12th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.31775, 13.6124

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 19′ 3.9″ N, 13° 36′ 44.64″ E

UTM: 33V 418711 6464925

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 6-18 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 43-47 cm* / 46 cm**

Basin Depth: 24 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 42-47 cm*

Basin Total Height: 42-47 cm* / 47 cm** / 47 cm***

Font Height (less Plinth): 47 cm* [base missing]

Trapezoidal Basin: 58 x 60 cm* / 60.5 cm** / 61 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Roosval (1917: 12) / *** Medeltidens bildvärld [Föremåls-ID 950517F6]

REFERENCES

Champeaux, Gérard de, Introduction au monde des symboles, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1972

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; r["References"]

Hildebrand, Hans, Den Kyrkliga konsten under Sveriges medeltid: en kortfattad öfversikt, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1907

Konstam, Angus, Historical atlas of the Viking world, New York: Checkmark Books, 2002

Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917