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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940613F1]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940613F1]

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design element - patterns - sawtooth

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940613F1]

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design element - patterns - sawtooth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940613F1]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: beginning of the reconstruction of the old destroyed church in 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2007 by Barbro Thörn, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: reconstruction of the old destroyed church in 2007 using medieval technology and methods

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2007 by Barbro Thörn, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: reconstruction of the destroyed church: 8 May 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2014 by Åke Johansson, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery

Scene Description: aftermath of the 2001 arson fire; so intense that even the churchyard walls were burnt

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Barbro Thörn, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: beginning of the reconstruction of the old destroyed church in 2007 using medieval technology and methods

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2007 by Barbro Thörn, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: illustration in Hildebrand (1907)

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the new church in Södra Råda [NB: the old church destroyed in 2001 is being re-built]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Åke Johansson, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/058197/images/58197_71056682] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the old church in May 1994, before the 2001 arson fire

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 1994 by Åke Johansson, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel - painting

Scene Description: 14th-century paintings inside the chancel, on the walls of the choir; the old church in May 1994, before the 2001 arson fire

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 1994 by Åke Johansson, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: detail of the 15th-century paintings by Mäster Amund; the old church in May 1994, before the 2001 arson fire

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 1994 by Åke Johansson, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: illustration in Hildebrand (1907)

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the interior of the nave showing the 15th-century paintings by Mäster Amund; the old font by the altar; the old church in May 1994, before the 2001 arson fire

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 1994 by Åke Johansson, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: a 15th century depiction of infant baptism

Image Source: drawing in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878) of a mural painting detail in Råda gamla kyrka

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: detail of the 15th-century paintings by Mäster Amund; the old church in May 1994, before the 2001 arson fire

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 1994 by Åke Johansson, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church interior - plan, section, etc.

Image Source: illustration in [www.sodraradagamlakyrka.se/avd/main.asp?id=12] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font in the new church in Södra Råda [NB: the old church and font were destroyed in 2001; the old church is being re-built]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Barbro Thörn, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/0471450/images/] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940613F1]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: The illustration in Hildebrand shows the shape of the basin as almost hemispherical; it was cylindrical.

Image Source: illustration in Hildebrand (1907)

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view of font in context

Scene Description: before the 2001 arson fire that destroyed the font and the church itself

Image Source: illustration in [www.sodraradagamlakyrka.se/avd/main.asp?id=12] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00463RAD

Church/Chapel: Södra Råda gamla kyrka

Church Location: [address for the new church] Södra Råda kyrby, 547 91 Gullspång, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 501 500 02

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Värmland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Gullspång, in the SE-most part of Värmland

Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift

Historical Region: Källands härad / Visnums härad -- Värmlands län

Font Location in Church: shown inside the church, by the altar, in May 1994

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Dalslandsgruppen [SHM] / VAST2

Church Notes: "One of the best preserved medieval timber curches in Sweden, with paintings dated 1323 and 1494". (Lagerlöf, 1985, p. 259) -- church believed to have been built between 1310 and 1323; mural paintings are from 1323 (choir) and 1494 by mäster Amund; detached bell-cote demolished mid-19thC; church destroyed by arson in 2001; under reconstruction since 2007 using medieval methods

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Montelius & Brusewitz (1878) illustrate a baptismal scene drawing after one of the wall paintings in this church, but do not show the actual font in this church [NB: there were two sets of mural paintings here: the choir paintings, said to be 14th-century, and the rest, of 1494, attributed to mäster Amund. All of them were destroyed in the arson fire of 2001, as was the font]. An illustration of the interior of this magnificent wooden church can be found in Hildebrand (1907: fig. 192) and in Lagerlöf (1985: fig. 253 on p. 203). In Hallbäck (1965). The baptismal font consists of a quasi-cylindrical basin that appears to have a saw-tooth pattern all around; the pedestal base is cylindrical, adorned with a single roll moulding; the lower base appears to have zigzag ornamentationt, perhaps of the same date as the church itself [paintings dated 1323 and 1494]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940613F1] as a Dalslandsgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone in the 13th century. The www.sodraradagamlakyrka.se web site notes that a stone font existed here before the 2001 arson fire that destroyed it and the church itself; the old font was made of Norwegian soapstone in the 13th century, that is, earlier than the 14th-century original church building, which may have indicated an earlier church had existed here; the font broke into pieces during the 2001 fire [="Dopfunten. Ett av kyrkans största mysterier var den gamla dopfunten från 1200-talet som var huggen i norsk täljsten. En dopfunt som egentligen inte borde ha funnits i en yngre 1300-tals kyrka. Dopfunten krackelerade och föll sönder av elden, men den hade redan spelat en central roll genom att peka på möjligheten att den en gång tillhört en äldre kyrka på platsen"]. The font consisted of a roughly cylindrical basin with a saw-tooth pattern just below the upper rim; on a cylindrical stem with a single roll moulding on it, and a round splaying lower base that appears to have had a foliated (?) pattern around the top surface. [NB: he last photographs of the font on site we have had access to, of May 1994, show the font at the east end, just in front of the altar -- reports of the destruction in 2001 [cf. supra] indicate the font was kroken into pieces; it is not clear yet whether the on-going reconstruction of the church will attempt to include the old font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.004, 14.2041

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 0' 04.14" N, 14° 12' 14.76" E

UTM: 33V 454 280 6540770

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone

Number of Pieces: 1?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 59 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 71 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld

REFERENCES

Hildebrand, Hans, Den Kyrkliga konsten under Sveriges medeltid: en kortfattad öfversikt, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1907

Lagerlöf, Erland, Medeltida träkyrkor II: Västergötland Värmland Närke, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1985

Montelius, Oscar, Bohuslänska dopfuntar, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1878