Ledsjo / Ledsjö

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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand - with beads

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920428F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920428F4#] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920428F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920428F4#] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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design element - patterns - spiral - snakes?

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920428F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920428F4#] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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symbol - triquetra

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920428F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920428F4#] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: Source caption: "en dopfuntscuppa (funnen i en stenmur) bevarade" -- on its present location, inside the new church

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Image Source: digital photograph by Inga Kajsa Christensson in Kringla [ww.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443401] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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view of basin - fragment

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920428F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920428F4#] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the medieval church had been demolished in the 1770s and the church in this photograph had been re-built soon thereafter; it was destroyed by fire in 2004; a new church built 2009 on the same site

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Image Source: digital image [2843-006.tif] of a 1958 B&W photograph by Adolf Niklasson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ledsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200161361.jpg] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ledsjö kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad 1876."

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Image Source: digital image [2843-001.tif] of a 4 October 1876 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ledsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200161356.jpg] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the medieval church had been demolished in the 1770s and the church in this photograph had been re-built soon thereafter; it was destroyed by fire in 2004; this new church was built in 2009 on the same site

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.O.G.A., 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by D.O.G.A. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ledsjö_kyrka03.JPG] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the church in this photograph had been re-built in the 1770s; it was destroyed by fire in 2004

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Image Source: digital image [2843-014.tif] of a 1958 B&W photograph by Adolf Niklasson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ledsjö_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200161369.jpg] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 18thC(?) font in use

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Image Source: digital photograph by Inga Kajsa Christensson in Kringla [ww.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443401] [accessed 8 January 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05612LED
Church/Chapel: Ledsjö kyrka
Church Location: Ledsjö kyrkby, 533 92 Lundsbrunn, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 511 285 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located at the local crossroads O2733-O2711, just W of the E20, in the municipality and 6-8 km S of Götene, on Ledsjövallen, outside Lundsbrunn
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Kinne härad, Skaraborgs län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [fragment] [composite font], Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Johannesgruppen [Hallbäck]
Cognate Fonts: Similar motifs to the fonts at Källby and Hangelösa
Church Notes: medieval church demolished in 1770s; re-built church destroyed by fire in 2004; new church built 2009 on the same site
Hallbäck (1971) attributes this font to the Johannesgruppen. Described in Dahlberg (1998: 112) as a basin fragment from a baptismal font; from its "plated relief" it is believed to be of the same group as the fonts at Källby and Hangelösa. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920428F4] with mention of Hallbäck's attribution [cf. supra], but the SHM does not agree and describes it as an "oidentifierad - saknar paralleller" baptismal font fragment made of sandstone in the latter half of the 12th century, and remarks that its shallow carving resembles somewhat the ornamentation on soapstone fonts in Dalsland and Värmland. The sides are decorated with a band of braided pattern that includes additional beads inside the braid all around the upper side of the remaining fragment; below it is a broad band of linked spiral patterns that appear to include some snake bodies; in every other upper and lower spandrel of the pattern is a triquetra; the lower end is a plain flat moulding. The fragment consists of about half of the basin vertical side, and is now located disused inside the present church; the fragment appears to have been built into a wall and later released and preserved. The present font in use in this church is a later-date [18th-century?] wooden one.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.469667, 13.473806
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 28′ 10.8″ N, 13° 28′ 25.7″ E
UTM: 33V 410977 6482012

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm*
Basin Total Height: 49 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920428F4] [measurements of the fragment]

REFERENCES

Dahlberg, Markus, Västervik: AB CO Ekblad & Co Tryckeri, 1998
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; r["References"]