Va No. 1 / Vä / Væ / Whæ
Results: 69 records
view of font
Scene Description: a possibly late-medieval stone basin mounted on a modern wooden base and located in the north transept [no information available to BSI]
view of font
![a possibly late-medieval stone basin mounted on a modern wooden base and located in the north transept [no information available to BSI]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/125010389_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a possibly late-medieval stone basin mounted on a modern wooden base and located in the north transept [no information available to BSI]
view of font
![a possibly late-medieval stone basin mounted on a modern wooden base and located in the north transept [no information available to BSI]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/125010388_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a possibly late-medieval stone basin mounted on a modern wooden base and located in the north transept [no information available to BSI]
view of font
Scene Description: the modern replica of the old font
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the old basin, on a new base, re-installed in the church
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the large damage to the lower side of the basin
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view of font
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view of basin - upper view
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Scene Description: a possibly late-medieval stone basin mounted on a modern wooden base and located in the north transept [no information available to BSI]
view of basin
Scene Description: the modern replica of the old font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2023 by BSI
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing the old basin, on a new base, re-installed in the church
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing the old basin, on a new base, re-installed in the church
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing the old basin, on a new base, re-installed in the church
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing the old basin, on a new base, re-installed in the church
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing the old basin, on a new base, re-installed in the church
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the old basin, on a new base, re-installed in the church
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design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge
Scene Description: alternating with pairs of vertical grooves all around the upper rim side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910325F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910325F1] [accessed 2 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - groove - vertical - 2
Scene Description: pairs of parallel vertical grooves alternating with romboid/diamond motifs all around the upper rim side
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910325F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910325F1] [accessed 2 May 2020]
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inscription - partial
Scene Description: seen here: "ECVM BEN", from the full Ave Maria inscription: "[ave] MARIA + GRACIA PLENA DOMINVS TECVM BENED[iICTA TV IN MVLIERIBVS]"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910325F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910325F1] [accessed 2 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - leaf - palm - linked
Scene Description: the palmettes are framed in heart shapes and linked forming a chain-like design
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910325F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910325F1] [accessed 2 May 2020]
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: large ribs, all around the underbowl
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view of basin
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view of basin
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
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view of church exterior - portal
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southeast end
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church interior - retable - detail
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church, Vä, Skåne. Detail of relief in cornerstone"
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2010 by LittleGun [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vä_kyrka_07_relief.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - tower - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Klocktornets norra ljudglugg. Mansfigur mellan två fåglar."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lars Kennerstedt / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1992
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view of church exterior - tower - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Klocktornets norra ljudglugg. Två fåglar."
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lars Kennerstedt / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1992
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Scene Description: the earlier glass window was removed during the renovation and a blank tympanum installed in its place
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [sd921811] of a photograph taken 5 May 1992 by Lars Kennerstedt, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vä,_Sankta_Maria_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000300012285.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jorchr, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2014 by Jorchr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vä_kyrka_mars_2014.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
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the modern replica of the old font
the modern replica of the old font
the modern replica of the old font
the modern replica of the old font
the modern replica of the old font
the modern replica of the old font
the modern replica of the old font
view of church interior - painting - detail
view of church interior - frieze - detail
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view of church interior - retable - detail
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view of church interior - retable - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of church interior - painting - detail
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view of church interior - painting - detail
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view of church interior - painting - detail
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view of font in context
Scene Description: showing the old basin, on a new base, re-installed in the church
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view of font in context
Scene Description: after the restoration a copy of the basin at SHM was installed in the parish church at the east end of the nave, north side
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view of font in context
Scene Description: after the restoration a copy of the basin at SHM was installed in the parish church at the east end of the nave, north side
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information
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Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI
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information
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information
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view of font
Scene Description: the old basin is shown here newly installed at the SHM
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Almqvist & Wiksell Stockholm, 1971
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Sveriges kyrkor: Skåne (1932- , Bd. III, hft. 1) [http://raa.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1244128/FULLTEXT01.pdf] [accessed 2 May 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05511VAA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2023-05-27
Font Date: ca. 1175-1225?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Museum: The original basin was in the Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, inv. nr. 5548
Church / Chapel Name: Vä kyrka / Sankta Maria kyrka i Vä / Mariakyrkan i Vä [the original basin is/was in the museum]
Font Location in Church: The copy of this font is located on the north side of the nave, just west of the chancel arch [the original is the SHM]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 14th; expanded 17th; modified 19thC; Romanesque paintings uncovered in 1963
Church Address: Snårarpsvägen 1, Vä, 291 65 Kristianstad, Sweden
Site Location: Skåne, Skåne län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) highway E22 [aka 19], 6-7 km SW of Kristianstad [the original font is/was in the SHM]
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Gärds härad, Kristianstads län, Skåne
Additional Comments: recycled font: the base is lost; the original basin was in a museum for a time, and the font in the church was a copy; the original is now, May 2023, in the church
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Skåne (1932- , Bd. III, hft. 1: 105,106 and fig. 109) as an almost cylindrical sandstone basin [the sides are slightly angled] believed to be originally from the church at Vä, located in the Statens Historiska Museum of Stckholm since 1867 [a copy is now in the restored church, just west of the chancel arch]. The basin is ornamented with a large band of linked palmettes in heart-shaped frames all around the sides; above this band, around the upper rim sides, a thin band of diamond and pairs of vertical grooves; on the lower basin side, around another thin band, an inscription with the initial text of the Ave Maria [cf. Inscription area]. The underbowl has a pattern of large ribs. The base, both in the museum and in the church, is modern: the one in the church is square, while the museum one is round. Tynell (1913- :36) believes it may have been originally from Vä (Mariakyrka), a church that got a new font in the 1700s. Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910325F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the mid-13th century. [NB: an interesting piece from this church is a life-size wooden statue of John the Baptist, a stand for the baptismal dish, originally carved by Peter Norrman ca. 1700, now in the museum at Kristianstad - cf. Index entry for Va No. 2] -- [NB: Roosval's entry for this font in his 1917 Dopfunta i Statens Historiska Museum has "ORNRA ÅSUM" in parenthesis after "Vä", the name of the church; it appears to be a misprint of Norra Åsum].
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 443057 6205543
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 55.9918, 14.087164
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 55° 59′ 30.48″ N, 14° 5′ 13.79″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (basin only)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 9-10 cm***
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm** / 54 cm***
Diameter (includes rim): 73.5 cm* / 73 cm** / 72-73 cm***
Basin Depth: 26 cm** / ***
Basin Total Height: 42 cm* / 42 cm** / 41 cm***
Height of Base: 47 cm*** [modern]
Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm* / 88 cm*** [includes modern base]
Notes on Measurements: * Sveriges kyrkor: Skåne (1932- , Bd. III, hft. 1: 105) / ** Roosval (1917) / *** BSI on-site
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: around the lower side of the basin
Inscription Text: "[ave] MARIA + GRACIA PLENA DOMINVS TECVM BENED[ICTA TV IN MVLIERIBVS]"
Inscription Notes: transcribed in SK (except for the "M" in TECUM, which is perfectly legible); the damage has lost the end of the inscription
Inscription Source: Sveriges kyrkor: Skåne (1932- , Bd. III, hft. 1: 105)
REFERENCES
- Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917, p. 37, fig. 45
- Rydbeck, Monica, Sveriges kyrkor: Skåne, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1932-1972, Bd. III, hft. 1: p. 105,106
- Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921, p. 36