Hallaryd / Hällaryd
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Results: 9 records
B01: symbol - shield - coat of arms
Scene Description: together with the initials "MI SK", on one of the panels of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2014 by Ulkl
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B02: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Kock family?
Scene Description: Kock was a churchwarden according to SK...
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B03: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent
Scene Description: the Tree in the centre with the serpent; Adam and Eve to either side of it
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B04: angel
Scene Description: the bust of an angel
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B05: symbol - fruit
Scene Description: on the next two panels of the basin
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LBF01: human figure - female - grotesque or fantastic - siren - 3
Scene Description: three of them, on the outer sides, support the basin together with the central shaft
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: "Dopfunt i Hällaryds kyrka"
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: "Kyrkorum i riktning mot ingång och orgelläktare Hällaryds kyrka" -- showing the font on the left
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: "Hällaryds kyrka från sydväst"
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05751HAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1649
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Church / Chapel Name: Hällaryds kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hällaryds_kyrka
Church Notes: present church of 1878 replaced an earlier one of which little remains
Church Address: Elisbergsvägen 11, 374 70 Trensum, Sweden
Site Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located N of Hwy E22, 10 km E of Asarum
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Blekinge län, Bräkne haräd
Additional Comments: re-cycled font (originally from the disappeared church)
Town/City Wikipedia: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hällaryd
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 36ff; Bd. V: 86 and fig. 66 on p. 79) as a wooden hexagonal baptismal font of the mid-17th century, carved, painted and gilded; the sides of the basin are ornamented with 1)a shield bearing the skull and cross-bones; outside the shield are the initials "MI SK"; 2)shield with coat of arms; initials K HD (Kock, a churchwarden?) and date 1649 outside the shield; 3)scene of the Fall, with Adam and Eve to the sides of the Tree and the serpent; 4)upper body of an angel; 5-6)fruit motif ornamentation. The lower base is a hexagonal box which serves as the base for the central pedestal of hexagonal baluster type, and the three mermaids who support the basin like atlantes. The central shaft, its base and the upper areas of the basin are ornamented with foliage motifs.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 496741 6229046
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.206333, 14.947458
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 12′ 22.8″ N, 14° 56′ 50.85″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Swedish and numbers
Inscription Location: on two of the panels of the basin
Inscription Text: 1.- "MI SK"
2.- "K HD 1649"
Inscription Notes: The coat of arms may belong to the Kock family, a churchwarden
Inscription Source: Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 36)
REFERENCES
- Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1926-1965, Bd. II: 36 and figs. 31, 32 on p. 40, 41f; Bd. V: 86 and fig. 66 on p. 79