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LB02: design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: Hildebrand (1907: 236)

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animal - bird - eagle - wings spread

Scene Description: heraldic eagle?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with helmet, sword and shield

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with helmet, sword and shield - fighting dragon

Scene Description: the large scaly dragon has its tail wrapped around a column at the back; much reddish paint remains on the dragon's body

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: with scenes, figures, animals or motifs in them

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

design element - motifs - leaf or plant

Scene Description: seen here in the top and bottom keft corners; the reddish round shape is part of the dragon's tail in the previous scene

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

design element or symbol - cruciferous shape

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch/window

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

human figure - male - warrior - on horseback - with bow and arrow - fighting lion

Scene Description: two arrows from the mounted archer on the left by-pass the arcade division on their way to the large lion on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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information

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka [...] Foto efter teckning av Sanfrid Welin, 1889. Teckningen föreställer dopfuntens åtta figurfält. Några exempel på fält: drake, jaktscen, örn, biskop och kentaur. Utförd av Sanfrid Welin, 1889."

Image Source: digital image [2850-063.tif] by Nils Lagergren of a file (?) in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008438.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka [...] Detalj av dopfunt från 1100-talet. I mästaren Bestiarius stil. Främst figurbilder av en örn och en biskop med kräkla och mitra."

Image Source: digital image [2850-060.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008435.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of basin

Scene Description: showing the two fighting scenes: on the left the mounted warrior fights a lion with bow and arrows -- on the right an armed centaur fights a scaly dragon

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: scene of the mounted warrior fighting a lion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the lion raises its front right paw as if to catch the arrow aimed at its chest/neck -- notice the acanthus-like tail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the lion raises its front right paw as if to catch the arrow aimed at its chest/neck

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the canonical orientation of the building had been changed in the 18thC modifications, pointing the chancel towards the south, instead of te east -- Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka [...] Kyrkan från öster. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad 1886."

Image Source: digital image [2850-001.tif] of a 30 June 1886 drawing by Ernst Wnnerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008375.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the canonical orientation of the building had been changed in the 18thC modifications, pointing the chancel towards the south, instead of te east -- Source caption: "Den är byggd på 1100-talet med ett något senare torn. Utbyggnad av norra korsarmen 1721-1729 och södra korsarmen 1733-1737. I samband med utbyggnaden orienterades koret åt söder."

Image Source: digital photograph [1085W5745] taken 8 May 2008 by Bengt A Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000123404.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.5

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the canonical orientation of the building had been changed in the 18thC modifications, pointing the chancel towards the south, instead of te east -- Source caption: "Kyrkans exteriör och omgivning. Foto efter teckning ur P.A. Säve Berättelse från 1863 (sid. 6, ATA)."

Image Source: digital image [2850-002.tif] of a ca, 1863 (?) drawing in P.A. Säve's Berättelse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008376.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the canonical orientation of the building had been changed in the 18thC modifications, pointing the chancel towards the south, instead of te east

Image Source: digital image [2850-004.tif] of an 1891 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008378.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the canonical orientation of the building had been changed in the 18thC modifications, pointing the chancel towards the south, instead of te east -- Source caption: "Den är byggd på 1100-talet med ett något senare torn. Utbyggnad av norra korsarmen 1721-1729 och södra korsarmen 1733-1737. I samband med utbyggnaden orienterades koret åt söder."

Image Source: digital photograph [1085W5743] taken 8 May 2008 by Bengt A Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000123404.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.5

view of church interior

Scene Description: looking towards the altar [which in this church is south since the 18thC change of the canonical orientation of the building]; the font and its cover are placed at the far end of the centre aisle in this post-1924 postcard -- Source caption: "Interiör mot altaret. Bänkkvarter. Praktfull sal inredd och dekorerad i den karolinska barockens stil. Vykort."

Image Source: digital image [2850-037.tif] of an undated postcard of a B&W photograph by G.S/ Ander, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008411.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church interior

Scene Description: looking towards the altar; the top of the font cover is visible at the far end, on the left, near the pulpit

Image Source: digital image [2850-040.tif] of a 1890 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008414.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: the photograph must have been taken before the 1924 restoration; no font visible here

Image Source: digital image [2850-043.tif] of an undated photograph by Sven Brandel, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008417.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, cylindrisk cuppa. Indelad i åtta figurfält (Snabbinv.). I mästaren Bestiarius stil. 1100-talet."

Image Source: digital image [2850-056.tif] of a 1890 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008431.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, cylindrisk cuppa. Indelad i åtta figurfält (Snabbinv.). I mästaren Bestiarius stil. 1100-talet. Snabbinv."

Image Source: digital image [2850-062.tif] of a 1956 B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008437.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 5 July 2006 in Wigulf~commonswiki [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_dopfunt.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated ["No machine-readable author provided. Wigulf~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)."]

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font is shown in this 1911 photograph near the pulpit, against the wall; it would have been the south wall in the canonical orientation of this church but it had been altered in the 18thC century, when the chancel was pointed south -- Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka. Dopfunt."

Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145110 653] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Roland Anders, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017208613/1m16-b145110-653-2] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: Public domain mark (CC pdm)

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145110 653;1] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Roland Anders, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017208612/1m16-b145110-653-1] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: Public domain mark (CC pdm)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, cylindrisk cuppa. Indelad i åtta figurfält (Snabbinv.). I mästaren Bestiarius stil. 1100-talet."

Image Source: digital image [2850-057.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008432.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the old font is located in the former chancel [gamla koret] which was replaced by a new south-oriented chancel in the 18th century modifications to the medieval church here

Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/057609/images/57609_72706247] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka [...] Dopfuntslock. Åttasidigt med åtta stycken i trä skulpterade hermliknande kvinnofigurer. Krönt av druvklase. 1600-talets slut."

Image Source: digital image [2850-058.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008433.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font cover - interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka [...] Dopfuntslock. Åttasidigt med åtta stycken i trä skulpterade hermliknande kvinnofigurer. Krönt av druvklase. 1600-talets slut."

Image Source: digital image [2850-059.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008434.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font in context

Scene Description: the text partially visible in this image gives the material of the font as limestone [other sources give sandstone] and two measurements of the font: height and diameter -- Source caption: "Västerplana kyrka [...] Dopfunt. Foto efter teckning från P.A. Säve Berättelse för år 1863 (s. 68, ATA)."

Image Source: digital image [2850-061.tif] of a n 1863 drawing in P.A. Säve's Berättelse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008436.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

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view of iconographic program

Scene Description: Source caption: "Teckning föreställande dopfuntens åtta figurfält. Några fält: drake, jaktscen, örn, biskop och centaur. Utförd av Sanfrid Welin, 1889."

Image Source: digital image [2850-055.tif] of a 1889 drawing by Sanfrid Welin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerplana_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008430.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

INFORMATION

FontID: 00242VAS

Church/Chapel: Västerplana kyrka

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [original dedication]

Church Location: Västerplana kyrkby, 531 95 Västerplana, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 510 54 21 09

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km NNE of Källby, in the municipality and about 15 km WNW of Götene, across from Lidköping on the E shores of the Kinneviken

Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift

Historical Region: Kinne härad, Skaraborgs län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Othelric? / Bestiarius? / Skaragruppen [SHM]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 18thC [NB: this modification changed the canonical orientation of the building, pointing the chancel to the south, instead of the east]; abandoned 1820s; restored 1924

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated, with some measurements, in P.A. Säve's Berättelse (1863: (s. 68, ATA) [cf. ImagesArea]; while Säve identifies the material of the font as limestone in this source, others give sandstone. Noted and illustrated in Hildebrand (1907: fig. 236). Noted in Hallbäck (1971). Nordström (1984: 133, 168fn14) identifies a horseback warrior fighting a centaur or dragon, but it is actually an armed centaur fighting a scaly dragon whose tail is wrapped around one of the columns of the arcade. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5] as a Skaragruppen baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century with traces of several colours on it. Medieval baptismal font consisting of a cylindrical basin raised on a round moulded base. The sides of the basin are decorated with an arcade of round arches in which are housed animals and/or scenes: over two arches an archer on horseback hunts (fights?) a facing lion; two arrows are shown: one just right of the bow, the next one touching the breast of the lion, thus giving the effect of a moving projectile; a roundel or shield? just behind the archer. 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. Octagonal dome wooden font cover of the late-17th century; the eight scroll ribs on it are actually female figures on their backs; fruit-bunch finial; the inner surface of the cover is carved with a foliage pattern all around. [NB: the medieval font, which would have been originally located at the west end of the nave of the medieval church, shows through the different photographs of record [cf. ImagesArea] as being moved around the new chancel area in the late-19th century and the early decades of the 20th century; the latest photographs available at this time [July 2020] show the font in the original chancel [gamla koret], which was replaced by the present chancel with a south orientation in the 18th century -- the original east side would be the north side of the present orientation].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.560222, 13.350528

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 33′ 36.8″ N, 13° 21′ 1.9″ E

UTM: 33V 404034 6492263

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 1.14* / 91 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 1.15* / 94 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * P.A. Säve Berättelse (1863, p. 68) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920516F5]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-century (late?)

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984