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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by Ellen C. Holte/KHM [https://www.khm.uio.no/om/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/bilder/lux-341.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: abbot, warrior, king, bishop? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Ellen C. Holte/KHM [https://www.khm.uio.no/om/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/bilder/lux-341.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: three of thm visible here

Image Source: digital photograph [TRK3482592] by Tarker / Bridgeman Images [https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/noartistknown/title/notechnique/asset/3482592] [accessed 6 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Våle Church in Re, Vestfold, Norway"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 1 January 2008 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VåleKirke20080101-4.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Door in Våle Church in Re, Vestfold, Norway"

Image Source: digital photograph 1 January 2008 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VåleKirke20080101-5.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Våle church"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2019 by Karl Ragnar Gjertsen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Våle_kirke] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Ellen C. Holte/KHM [https://www.khm.uio.no/om/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/bilder/lux-341.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Døpefont fra Våle kirke, nå i middelalderustillingen i Historisk museum i Oslo / Baptismal font from Våle church, currently in the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 24 May 2016 by Jan-Tore Egge [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jan-tore/50930247947/in/photostream/] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph by Torild Granhaug [https://res.cloudinary.com/kirkesok/image/upload/w_700/v1656690390/071600101/235DD8504476E337DBCF283408FC2FA1.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00423VAA

Museum and Inventory Number: Historisk museum i Oslo / History Museum, Oslo, Norway

Church/Chapel: Våle kirke / kyrkje

Church Patron Saints: St. Olaf [aka Olaf II Haraldsson, Óláfr Haraldsson, Olav, Olav Haraldsson, Olave, Olof]

Church Location: [Address & coordinates are for the parish churce whence the font originated] Gjelstadveien 1, 3178 Våle, Norway -- Tel.: +47 409 03 100

Country Name: Norway

Location: Vestfold og Telemark

Directions to Site: Located off road 35 [aka Bispeveien], W of highway E18, 6 km W of Nykirke, about 20 km NNW and in the municipality of Tønsberg

Ecclesiastic Region: Tunsberg Bispedømme

Historical Region: Vestfold, Kristiania

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: 12thC(?) church; enlarged and much modified 17th-18thC; renovated 2004-2006

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Solhaug (2001) UO. C. 6377 as a medieval font made of Gotland limestone 1200-1225, a dating based on comparative works; it is decorated with four heads: bishop with mitre, warrior with helmet, emperor/king with a crown and a possible abbot with tonsure. The entry for this church in Den Norske Kirke [https://www.re.kirken.no/Menighetene/Artikler/Vis/ArticleId/59/V-229-le-kirke] [accessed 2 October 2022] reports ae medieval font of Gotland limestone removed: "Døpefonten. I likhet med mange av de andre middelalderkirker i Vestfold, hadde Våle kirke en døpefont av gotlandsk kalkstein og som etter tidens skikk stod ved hovedinngangen. Den er nå i oldsakssamlingen." The present font in use is modern: a shallow octagonal basin on an octagonal pedestal base; a meta baptismal dish is used on it. The Kulturhistorisk museum [https://www.khm.uio.no/om/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/gjenstander-til-lux-tro-og-hellighet-i-middelalderen.html] [accessed 2 October 2022] reports and illustrates the medieval font from Våle, on loan at the KHM: "Blant annet er den vakre døpefonten fra Våle kirke på utlån. Den er dekorert med 4 mannshoder som skal forestille biskop, kriger/ridder, keiser/konge og abbed. De symboliserer muligens de 4 kardinaldyder og evangelister: klokskap, tapperhet, rettferdighet, måtehold. Datert 1200-1225." The entry for this church in Norske-Kirker [https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/vestfold/vaale-kirke/] [accessed 2 October 2022] informs that the medieval font was removed in 1871 and ended up in the Oldsak collection; a new font was introduced at the time: "I 1871 kastet man også ut middelalderdøpefonten i gotlandsk kalkstein, som fant veien til Oldsaksamlingen, og fikk inn en ny døpefont." The entry for this church in Norges Kirker [https://norgeskirker.no/wiki/V%C3%A5le_kirke#D.C3.B8pefont] [accessed 2 October 2022] reports two fonts from this church: a medieval font made of Gotland limestone decorated with four heads: bishop with mitre, warrior with helmet, emperor/king with a crown and a possible abbot with tonsure; the other is a modern font of 1872 fitted with a space for a baptismal dish atop: "Middelalder døpefont. Gotlandsk kalksten. Døpefonten er kalkformet med fire mannshoder på skaftet. Hodene er i trekvarts figur og forestiller en biskop med lav mitra, kriger med hjelm, keiser/konge med bøylekrone og en abbed? med tonsur.[19] Høyde: 97cm. Befinner seg i UIO Kulturhistorisk museum. Åttekantet, rett skaft på rett fot som bærer bordplateformet overdel med profilert sarg og med hull for døpefat. Fra 1872." Mentioned in Gravgaver [https://www.gravgaver.no/gotland-dopefonter.htm] [accessed 2 October 2022] as one of twelve medieval fonts imported from Gotland into Norway: "Borre (av kummen er kun fragmenter bevart), Eidanger (kun fot), Fon (nederste del av kummen), Hidra (skaft og fot), Holmedal (skaft og fot), Hvaler, Nøtterøy (kun underdel), Ramnes (skaft og fot, fire hoder skyter ut fra vulsten), Sannidal, Sæbø, Tanum, Våle."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.41972, 10.276809

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 25′ 10.99″ N, 10° 16′ 36.51″ E

UTM: 32V 572458 6587485

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Gotland)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 66 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 82 cm**

Basin Depth: 36 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm* / **

Notes on Measurements: * Norges Kirker [cf. FontNotes] // ** Solhaug (2001)

REFERENCES

Solhaug, Mona Bramer, Middelalderens døpefonter i Norge, Oslo: Unipub forlag -- Det historisk filosofiske fakultetet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001