Torp nr. Sundsvall

Results: 28 records

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LBF01: cleric - bishop - with book

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in July 1989 by BSI

LBF02: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Scene Description: seen here on the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

LBF03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in July 1989 by BSI

LBF04: Old Testament - Abraham as father of all believers - Father Abraham with the souls

Scene Description: seen here on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

Christ - Christ in Majesty - Apostles

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in July 1989 by BSI

New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity

Scene Description: only the bottom of Mary's bed is now discernible

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in July 1989 by BSI

angel - archangel - St. Michael and dragon

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in July 1989 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: very worn now

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "hörnfigurer"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900831F1] [accessed 15 May 2021]

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

view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "bebådelsen och visitatio (?)"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900831F1] [accessed 15 May 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900831F1] [accessed 15 May 2021]

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view of basin - interior - detail

view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Torps kyrka sett från sockenstugan."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2014 by Henrik Sendelbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torps_kyrka_001.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the 18thC church building

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 November 2005 by Henrik Sendelbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torps_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Photograph of Torp's church in Fränsta, Sweden. View from the other side of the lake."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2008 by Backstr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TorpsKyrkaAug08.JPG] [accessed 30 January 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital image [4081-7.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1929 by Henrik Cornell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB-16000200045136] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200045136.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital image [4081-8.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph taken by Henrik Cornell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB-16000200045137] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200045137.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2018]

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view of church interior - statue - St. Olaf

Scene Description: 13thC?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - St. Olaf - detail

Scene Description: 13thC?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900831F1] [accessed 15 May 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in July 1989 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the terribly eroded font and its post-Reformation cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900831F1] [accessed 15 May 2021]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font and cover in 1935

Image Source: digital image [4081-22.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1935 by Nils Åzelius, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [KMB-16000200045154] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200045154.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2018]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the font cover in 1989

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in July 1989 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00315TOR

Church/Chapel: Torps kyrka

Church Location: Torps kyrkby, 47393 Henån, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Medelpad, Västernorrland

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the E14 highway, in the municip[ality of Ånge, W of Sundsvall

Ecclesiastic Region: Härnösands stift

Historical Region: Medelpad, Västernorrlands län

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, on the south side.

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sighraf / Sighrafr / Sigraf

Church Notes: The old wooden church of the 12thC was demolished in 1782; replaced by a stone church completed in 1785

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Roosval (1914) and in Cornell (1918). Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad (Bd. I, hft. 2: 369, 370, 378) as a sandstone cylindrical mounted baptismal font by the Sighraf workshop of Gotland and dated to the 12th century (Roosval dating); it bears figural ornamentation whose identification is made harder by the eroded state of the carving. The base is square (the rounded main part is made square by the figures at the corners). The wooden (pine) cover has a sculptural figure, originally from the pulpit; it is dated 1708 by an inscription; it is the work of cabinet-maker Olof Jönsson, who did other work in this church. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900831F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the last quarter of the 12th century by Sigraf; the font has a limestone base and a post-Reformation cover [="funten har efterreformatoriskt lock med förgyllda figurer och är nu placerad på sekundär sockel av kalksten"]. On-site notes [visited in 1989 and 1997]: the font is badly worn and only selected images are barely discernible: a Christ in Majesty with the Apostles form a scene on the basin side; other images are very difficult to decipher [cf. Image section for full program]; this composition is similar to the one on the Bro font, also by Sighraf; the base has four figures: St. Peter with the keys, Father Abraham, the Madonna-andChild and a bishop with book; the outer surfaces the sandstone basin are badly worn but the inside of the basin well clearly shows all the scrapings and marks left by the carver; it must have been left upside down outside in order for the interior markings of the basin well to have survived; white chalk/whitewash still remains in the crevasses of the stone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 62.493836, 16.172025

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 62° 29′ 37.81″ N, 16° 10′ 19.29″ E

UTM: 33V 560389 6929744

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 6-7 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 30 cm*

Basin Total Height: 45 cm*

Height of Base: 34 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 79 cm* / 80 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 89 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 39 x 39 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900831F1]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Swedish

Inscription Notes: "O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart" (Psalms, Cambridge U.P. version)

Inscription Location: on the lid

Inscription Text: "PSALM 36 V. 10. NÄR TIG HERRE ÄR EN LEFVANDES KÄLLA OCH I TING LIUSE SE WI LIUS. ÅHR 1708"

Inscription Source: Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad (Bd. I, hft. 2: 370)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1708

Material: wood,

Notes: a/p description in Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad (Bd. I, hft. 2: 370)

REFERENCES

Cornell, Henrik, Norrlands Kyrkliga Konst under Medeltiden, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells Bocktryckeri A.-B., 1918

Cornell, Henrik, Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad, Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, 1929-1939

Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918

Svanberg, Jan, "Kampen mellan ont och gott på dopfunten I Hög", 1 (1980), ICO – Iconographisk Post. Nordisk tidskrift för bildtolkning – Nordic Review of Iconography, 1980, pp. 16-30, 14 fig. English summary; r["References"]

Tuulse, Armin, Romansk konst i Norden, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1968