Soderala / Söderala
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern wooden font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kyrkokartan.se, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Barbro Thörn [www.kyrkokartan.se/056861/images/56861_236903] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of font
![the medieval font [cf. Fontnotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141227019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the medieval font [cf. Fontnotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kyrkokartan.se, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Barbro Thörn [www.kyrkokartan.se/056861/images/56861_236903] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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Christ - Christ in Majesty - holding book in left hand - right hand raised in benediction - 2 cherubim
Scene Description: Source caption: "Majestas Domini omgiven av keruber."
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left
Scene Description: Source caption: "bebådelsen"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing
Scene Description: on the left half of this image -- Source caption: "visitatio / Josefs drö"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Joseph's Second Dream
Scene Description: on the right half of this image -- Source caption: "visitatio / Josefs drö"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Christ child lying on the manger
Scene Description: Source caption: "Jesu födelse"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds
Scene Description: Source caption: "bebådelsen av herdarna"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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angel?
Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the arcade
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of basin
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0141227032_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cornell (1918)
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view of church exterior - weather-vane
Scene Description: the old weathervane from Söderala kyrka, now in the Statens historiska museet, Stockholm. May have been originally from a ship. 11thC?
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Sören Hallgren/SHM [www.historiska.se/template/RelatedImagePopup.aspx?parent=24932&image=24934] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Riggwelter, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2007 by Riggwelter [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Söderala_kyrka_Söderhamn_Sweden_002.JPG] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of church interior - retable
![Source caption: "Altarskåp av lövträ. Upphovsman: Haaken Gulleson [...] 1500-talets första fjärdedel" [originally from Söderala kyrka; now in Hälsinglands museum, Hudiksvall (inv.nr. 9895)]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141227031_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Altarskåp av lövträ. Upphovsman: Haaken Gulleson [...] 1500-talets första fjärdedel" [originally from Söderala kyrka; now in Hälsinglands museum, Hudiksvall (inv.nr. 9895)]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900924A2] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of church interior - crucifix
![Source caption: "Träskulptur [...] omkring 1500"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141227030_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Träskulptur [...] omkring 1500"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528S1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of church interior - painting - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "1500-talets första fjärdedel "
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528M11] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kyrkokartan.se, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Barbro Thörn [www.kyrkokartan.se/056861/images/56861_236903] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kyrkokartan.se, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Åke Johansson [www.kyrkokartan.se/056861/images/56861_236903] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew?
Scene Description: Source caption: "Matteus / evangelistsymbol"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson/SHM [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=900528F1] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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information
Scene Description: notes on this font in Cornell (1918: 129)
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cornell (1918)
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information
Scene Description: notes on this font in Cornell (1918: 128)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cornell (1918)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00218SOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Anonymous Majestatis
Church / Chapel Name: Söderala Kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: original church probably early13thC; restored twice in the 18thC, in 1903-1904; and in 1963
Church Address: Kyrkvägen 2, 826 61 Söderala, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 270 42 17 70
Site Location: Hälsingland, Gävleborgs län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off local road X637, S of county road 50, 6 km WSW of Söderhamn, in its municipality, about 50 km S of Hudiksvall
Ecclesiastic Region: Uppsala Stift
Historical Region: Konga härad, Gävleborgs län
Additional Comments: damaged font (besides other damage, the stone of the font has been badly eroded by the chemical decomposition) / restored font (part of the centre ring is a modern replacement)
Font Notes:
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Described and partially illustrated in Cornell (1918) as the surviving octagonal sandstone basin of a baptismal font of the 12th century [NB: Cornell mentions specificaly a basin and does not include a base in the description or illustration], decorated with an arcade containing the follwing scenes: 1)Annunciation; 2)Visitation; 3)Nativity; 4)Flight to Egypt; 5)Three Kings on their way to Bethlehem; 6)Adoration of the Kings; 7)Ascension of Christ; 8)Christ in Majesty; Cornell (ibid.) reports the carving on the sides much weathered, and the realiefs on the underbowl practically unreadable. Cornell (ibid.) notes that this font is similar to those by that "Häradskistans mästare (Roosval mäster Majestatis)", and that it can be safely dated to the second half of the 12th century. Nordstrom (1984) reports a Christ in Majesty scene on this font. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900528F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone and dated to the first half of the 13th century; the very battered and partly reconstructed font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with an arcade of round arches on pillars with capitals and bases, each arch containing a scene; Karlsson (ibid.) identifies five scenes from the Childhood of Christ cycle: Annunciation, Visitation, Dream of Joseph, Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds [cf. Cornell supra]; Karlsson (ibid.) further identifies another scene as Christ in Majesty with two cherubim, in another of the arches of the basin side [NB: the Visitation and Joseph's dream share one arch, which leaves three arches unaccounted for]; the basin is raised on a partly reconstructed round base on which Karlsson (ibid.) identifies St. Matthew the Evangelist.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 604890 6795610
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 61.280569, 16.956806
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 61° 16′ 50.05″ N, 16° 57′ 24.5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm* / 74 cm** [widest distance]
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Cornell (1918) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900528F1]
REFERENCES
- Borelius, Aron, "Problemet Majestatis", Norrköpings museum. Berättelse över verksamheten jämte bifogade skrifter, [Norrköping?]: [Norrköpings Museum?], 1949, p. 96 - 114
- Cornell, Henrik, Norrlands Kyrkliga Konst under Medeltiden, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells Bocktryckeri A.-B., 1918, p. 128-129 and fig. 103
- Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984