Hovsta

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: atop the pedestal base

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Image Source: digital image [3374-031.TIF] of a 1935 B&W photograph by Nils Åzelius, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hovsta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200046243.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2020]

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human figure - head - 4?

Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles

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Image Source: digital image [3374-030.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Stellan G. Mörner, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hovsta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200046241.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2020]

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view of base

Scene Description: Hovsta kyrka [...] Fot till dopfunt av kalksten, 1100-talet."

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Image Source: digital image [3374-031.TIF] of a 1935 B&W photograph by Nils Åzelius, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hovsta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200046243.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2020]

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view of base

Scene Description: Hovsta kyrka [...] Fot till dopfunt av kalksten, 1100-talet."

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Image Source: digital image [3374-030.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Stellan G. Mörner, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hovsta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200046241.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2020]

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view of church - elevation and plan

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hovsta kyrka [...] Foto efter förslagsritning till kyrkans ombyggnad, signerad C. F. Adelcrantz 1779."

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Image Source: digital image [3374-007.TIF] of a 1779 drawing by C. F. Adelcrantz, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hovsta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200046196.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bysmon, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2016 by Bysmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hovsta_kyrka,_Örebro,_2016a.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2020[

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the later font is partially bisible here by the Communion railing

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Image Source: digital image [3374-025.TIF] of a 1921 B&W photograph by Stellan G. Mörner, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hovsta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200046231.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05384HOV
Museum and Inventory Number: Statens historiska museum, Stockholm
Church/Chapel: [in a museum -- originally from Hovsta kyrka
Church Location: Hovsta kyrkby, Kyrkvägen 2A, 703 75 Örebro, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 19 30 80 60
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Närke, Örebro län
Directions to Site: Located just W of road 50, N of the E18/E20, 4 km S of Hovsta, 5 km N of Örebro, about 7 km N of Almby
Ecclesiastic Region: Strängnäs stift
Historical Region: Närke landskap, Örebro härad
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Said to have belonged to a font similar to the ones at Mosjö, Täby and Almby No. 1.
Church Notes: original church 12thC(?); much modified, chiefly late-18thC, but tower is 13thC
Described in Sveriges kyrkor: Närke (Bd. I, hft. 2: 359-361) as a fragment of the pedestal base of a medieval limestone baptismal font; it was dated to the 12th century in Norberg (1944, Bd. II: 8) within a similar group consisting of the fonts/bases at Mosjö, Täby and Almby [No. 1] but, unlike the other three, this base has four crudely carved human heads on the sides. Roosval (1917: 35) dated it to the second half of the 12th century. [An 18th-century wooden baptismal font, similar to the one at nearby Axberg is still in use -- neither of these are included in the Index (the font is illustrated in SK: Närke (Bd. I, hft. 2: pl. 311 on p. 360))]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.321378, 15.22685
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 19′ 16.96″ N, 15° 13′ 36.66″ E
UTM: 33V 512911 6575860

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: [missing]
Basin Interior Shape: [missing]
Basin Exterior Shape: [missing]
Drainage Notes: the fragment of the base shows a central drain channel
Height of Base: 32 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Measurements of the fragment given as "H 32, D upptill 47" in Sveriges kyrkor: Närke (Bd. I, hft. 2: 361)

REFERENCES

Lundberg, Erik, Sveriges kyrkor: Närke, Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstalts förlag (1939-1961); Almqvist & Wiksell (1970-1972), 1939-1972
Norberg, Rune, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sörmland", Sörmlänska kyrkor, 1944
Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917