Starrkarr / Starkärr

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 12 - columns with capitals

Scene Description: the columns of the arcade have simple capitals but do not have bases; instead, they draw inwards and form part of the motif inside the arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

design element - motifs - plant or tree

Scene Description: one of twelve

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

design element - motifs - plant or tree

Scene Description: one of twelve

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

design element - motifs - plant or tree

Scene Description: one of twelve

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

design element - motifs - plant or tree

Scene Description: one of twelve

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: a thin one; it is part of the basin block

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

information

Scene Description: STH label for this font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

information

Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F2]

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

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2010 by Dagjoh [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starkarr33.jpg] [accessed 8 October 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration originally from the V.H.A., reproduced in Roosval (1917: gig. 94)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: photograph taken 19 May 1995 by Lennart Karlsson [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94246] [accessed 8 October 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]

view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in the SHM in June 1997

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00311STA

Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm

Church/Chapel: [originally at Starrkärrs kyrka]

Church Location: Starrkärr 225, 446 95 Älvängen, Sweden -- Tel.: : +46 303 44 40 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the E45, NNE of Göteborg

Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift -- Starrkärr-Kilanda församling

Historical Region: Ale härad

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Starrkärrsskolan / Starrkärrsgruppen [SHM] / by Bestiarius?

Cognate Fonts: font at Vallda, in norra Halland? font at Stråvalla kyrka, Varberg?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Lennart Karlsson, to the Middle Ages curator and to the staff at the Statens Historiska Museum of Stockholm for their help in documenting this font during our two visits to the SHM

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated by Erik Lundberg in Roosval (1917) as a font of the late 12th century consisting of two blocks of limestone ["Kolmårdsmarmor"]. Described and illustrated in the Statens Historiska Museum inventory [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94246] [accessed 8 October 2012] as a medeval baptismal font made of limestone. Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F2] as a "Starrkärrsgruppen" baptismal font made of soapstone in the late-13th century. On-site notes: basin is quatrefoil-shaped inside and out, the outer sides are vertical and decorated with a variety of vegetal motifs resembling the Tree of Life; all twelve are different; raised on a base that is a cluster of four columns carved to appear as a quatrefoil as well; no plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.933994, 12.149753

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 56′ 2.38″ N, 12° 8′ 59.11″ E

UTM: 33V 331245 6424920

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [Kolmårdsmarmor]

Number of Pieces: two

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

Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil

Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 7 cm** / 6.5-8 cm***

Diameter (inside rim): 63 cm* / 63 cm** / 63 cm***

Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm* / 76 cm** / 76-77 cm***

Basin Depth: 32 cm* / 32-33 cm***

Height of Basin Side: 32 cm** / 33 cm***

Basin Total Height: 56 cm** / 40-42 cm***

Height of Base: 33 cm** / 46-47 cm***

Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm* / 89 cm** / 86-89 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * Roosval (1917: 69) / ** BSI on-site 1997 / *** BSI on-site 2012

REFERENCES

Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917