Nas / Naas / Nääs / Näs nr. Vartofta and Falköping

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design element - motifs - drapery - scroll

Scene Description: the corner scrolls are linked through the sides of the base forming a continuous drapery all around
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Image Source: digital image [2485-012.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163527.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - scroll

Scene Description: seen here in the right loop
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Image Source: digital image [2485-013.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163529.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - foliage or plant - 2

Scene Description: two of them seen here side-by-side
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Image Source: digital image [2485-010.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163525.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: digital image [2485-012.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163527.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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design element - patterns - interlace - knot - 2

Scene Description: two of the them seen here to the right of the human bust -- sometimes called a Viking knot but often found on Anglo-Saxon as well as Scandinavian art
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Image Source: digital image [2485-011.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163526.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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design element or symbol - foliage or plant - Tree of Life?

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Image Source: digital image [2485-012.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163527.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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human figure - bust or demi-figure

Scene Description: this is a drawing; see the same figure partially in ImageFileNo. 0200506030 and 0200506031
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration originally from the V.H.A. reproduced in Roosval (1917: fig. 83)
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symbol - cross - linked-chain cross

Scene Description: seen here in the left loop
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Image Source: digital image [2485-013.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163529.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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symbol - triquetra

Scene Description: seen here in the centre loop
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Image Source: digital image [2485-013.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163529.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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unidentified
![Brandel [cf. FontNotes] describes the content of the loop to the right of the plant as "med en portal(?) bredvid ett par människoben(?)" -- could it be a very stilised symbol of the Alpha-Omega? (although the fist character(?) looks like a Lambda)](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200506031_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Brandel [cf. FontNotes] describes the content of the loop to the right of the plant as "med en portal(?) bredvid ett par människoben(?)" -- could it be a very stilised symbol of the Alpha-Omega? (although the fist character(?) looks like a Lambda)
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Image Source: digital image [2485-012.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163527.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
![early-18thC drawing in Johan Peringskiöld's Monumenta [...]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200506026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: early-18thC drawing in Johan Peringskiöld's Monumenta [...]
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Image Source: digital image [2485-004.tif] of a drawing from Peringskiölds Monumenta, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163518.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
view of font
view of font in context

Scene Description: shown in a field or churchyard?
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Image Source: digital image [2485-009.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Knut Pettersson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200163524.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern wooden font in the context of the interior of the 1883 church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/057569/images/57569_25753164] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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