Borgsjo / Borgsjö
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on several parts of the basin, base and lid
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [4082-70.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1935 by Nils Åzelius, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200044510.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: on several parts of the basin and lid
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Image Source: digital image [4082-70.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1935 by Nils Åzelius, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200044510.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]
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Image Source: digital image [4082-70.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1935 by Nils Åzelius, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200044510.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: replaced the medieval church demolished in 1766
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans Lindqvist, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2013 by Hans Lindqvist [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgsjö_kyrka_11.JPG] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of church exterior in context
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Image Source: digital image [djf16295] of a photograph taken 16 June 1988 by Jan Norrman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgsjö_-_KMB_-_16000300023006.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the late-17thC font and cover partially visible in the bottom-left corner
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Image Source: digital image [4082-054.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200044438.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt, av furu med lock, polykromerad, 1693."
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Image Source: digital image [4082-70.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1935 by Nils Åzelius, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200044510.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice that the font is mounted on casters and can therefore be moved around at will
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GertCoone, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in GertCoone's blog [http://medelpad.blogspot.com/2017/10/op-bezoek-in-borgsjo-pa-besok-i-borgsjo.html] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the northeast corner of the church, beneath the pulpit, with the sacristy entranceway in the background
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Image Source: digital image [4082-053.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200044437.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05572BOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Borgsjö kyrka
Church Location: Borgsjöbyn, 841 97 Erikslund, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västernorrland, Västernorrlands län
Directions to Site: Located off (S) local road Y587, just N of the E14, in the municipality of Ånge, 60-70 km WNW of Sundsvall
Ecclesiastic Region: Härnösands stift
Historical Region: Medelpad, Västernorrlands län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [NB: the font appears to be on casters, therefore mobile]
Date: 1693
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Church Notes: earlier (medieval?) church demolished 1766; present church late-18thC;
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad (Bd. I, hft. 2: 389, 393) as a polychrome wooden (pine) baptismal font of hexagonal mounted shape; it comes with a matching ornate hexagonal dome cover, and is dated by an inscription to 1693 [cf. Inscription area]. The short pedestal is round and the lower base is square.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 62.540083, 15.906778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 62° 32′ 24.3″ N, 15° 54′ 24.4″ E
UTM: 33V 546651 6934676
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood, pine
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm
Notes on Measurements: Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad (Bd. I, hft. 2: 389)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Swedish
Inscription Notes: Engl. transl.: "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Cambridge U.P. version)
Inscription Location: around the upper sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "UTHAN EN WARDER FÖDD AFWATN OCH ANDANOM KAN HAN ICKE INGÅ I GUDS RIKE 1693. JOH. 3 V. 5"
Inscription Source: Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad (Bd. I, hft. 2: 389)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1693
Material: wood, pine
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
Cornell, Henrik, Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad, Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, 1929-1939