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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2009 by Frode Inge Helland [https://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/Fil:2009_07_30_Vågå_kirke_046.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2023]

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design element - patterns - interlace

Scene Description: all over the sides of the basin and underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2009 by Frode Inge Helland [https://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/Fil:2009_07_30_Vågå_kirke_046.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2023]

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view of basin and baptismal dish - upper view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vågå kirke, Vågåmo in Gudbrandsdal, Vågå municipality, Oppland county, Norway."

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2009 by Frode Inge Helland [https://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/Fil:2009_07_30_Vågå_kirke_047.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2010 by Micha L. Rieser [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Vågå.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2016]

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view of church exterior - porch - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Blindarkade fra tidligere stavkirke. Skipets østvegg nord for våpenhus."

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2009 by Frode Inge Helland [https://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/Fil:2009_07_30_Vågå_kirke_041.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2023]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: 1865 artist's rendition of the church in the context of the Gudbrandsdalen

Image Source: photographic reproduction of an "Illustrasjon hentet fra boken Nordiska taflor av ukjent forfatter og utgitt av Albert Bonnier (se, 1865)" [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordiska_taflor_-_no-nb_digibok_2014031426011-130.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2016]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2010 by Micha L. Rieser [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Vågå,_altar.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2016]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vågå kirke, Vågåmo in Gudbrandsdal, Vågå municipality, Oppland county, Norway. "

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2009 by Frode Inge Helland [https://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/Fil:2009_07_30_Vågå_kirke_0081.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2023]

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view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board

Scene Description: and a partial view of the font and its baptismal dish at the bottom of the photograph, left side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2010 by Micha L. Rieser [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Vågå,_pulpit.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: in 1910

Image Source: photograph taken 1910 by Johan Joachim Meyer, in the Norsk Folkemuseum, ref.: NF.25986-2843

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view of font and baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph in Norske Kirkebygg [http://norske-kirkebygg.origo.no/-/bulletin/show/240783_vaagaa-kirke?ref=checkpoint] [accessed 4 February 2016]

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view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vågå kirke, Vågåmo in Gudbrandsdal, Vågå municipality, Oppland county, Norway."

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2009 by Frode Inge Helland [https://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/Fil:2009_07_30_Vågå_kirke_046.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2023]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: church interior: pulpit and font

Image Source: Norge (1959: unpaged)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05760VAG

Church/Chapel: Vågå kirke / Vågåkyrkja

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [original dedication]

Church Location: Vågå kirke, 2680 Vågå, Norway -- Tel.: +47 61 29 37 40

Country Name: Norway

Location: Gudbrandsdalen, Oppland

Directions to Site: Located in the village of Vågåmo, on the W bank of the Fina river, N of highway 15, about 30 km WNW of Otta; near the Jotunheimen National Park, in south-central Norway, half-way between Oslo and Trondheim

Ecclesiastic Region: Hamar bispedømme

Historical Region: Gudbrandsdal, Oppland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the foot of the pulpit

Date: ca. 1150-1200?

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: The ornamental pattern is -as L. Karsson has indicated- very similar to that on the fonts at Gällstad, Fröslunda and Stånga. Pattern also found on the Röen font. -- also Finnekumla font

Church Notes: stave church mid-12thC dedicated to St. Peter; present cruciform stave church 1627; present church re-built early-17thC re-using some materials from the original (?) ca. 1150-1200 Romanesque church here

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***NEEDS SOLHAUGS PICS*** Drawing in Ruprich-Robert, 1884-1889 shows a chalice-shaped font sharing some of Röen's ornamental patterns: the basin is totally covered in a braided triangular motif similar to the one found inside the circles of the upper base of the Röen font; the upper base of this Vaage font is a loose braid; below it the base continues in three widening plain rings of truncated-cone edges (Ruprich-Robert, 1884-1889). The pattern is discussed by Lennart Karlsson (1985: p. 169-172), who compares it to that on the fonts at Gällstad, Fröslunda and Stånga. The baptismal font at Vågå is a goblet-shaped stone font probably dated to the late 12th or early 13th century; it consists of two blocks: the basin and underbowl stem, shaped almost cylindrical but with upper circumference slightly smaller than the lower; it is ornamented with busy interlace all the way to the short stem of the underbowl; the well of the basin is covered with a metal basin; the lower volume is a conical base with two incised marks all around dividing the block into three equal sections. The font was shown at the foot of the pulpit at the time of the illustration in our source [Norge (1959: unpaged)]. Blindheim (1965: 21) describes this font as one of "a number of fonts, all made in soapstone, of almost identical shapes, and carved with sunken stars and braid ribbon, were produced for a number of years after the carving of the pilasters of the west front of the stave church. The fonts are now to be found in churches not only in Gudbrandsdal and in neighbouring valleys, but far down in the lowlands to the south. The latest may be dated to the end of the century". Blindheim (ibid.) points out the ease of transfer of the skills of a wood-carved onto soapstone. The baptismal font at Vågå is a goblet-shaped stone font probably dated to the late 12th or early 13th century; it consists of two blocks: the basin and underbowl stem, shaped almost cylindrical but with upper circumference slightly smaller than the lower; it is ornamented with busy interlace all the way to the short stem of the underbowl; the well of the basin is covered with a metal basin; the lower volume is a conical base with two incised marks all around dividing the block into three equal sections. The font was shown at the foot of the pulpit at the time of the illustration in our source [Norge (1959: unpaged)]. Blindheim (1965: 21) describes this font as one of "a number of fonts, all made in soapstone, of almost identical shapes, and carved with sunken stars and braid ribbon, were produced for a number of years after the carving of the pilasters of the west front of the stave church. The fonts are now to be found in churches not only in Gudbrandsdal and in neighbouring valleys, but far down in the lowlands to the south. The latest may be dated to the end of the century". Blindheim (ibid.) points out the ease of transfer of the skills of a wood-carved onto soapstone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 61.875899, 9.098053

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 61° 52′ 33.23″ N, 9° 5′ 52.99″ E

UTM: 32V 505157 6860359

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm*

Basin Depth: 37 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Solhaug (2001)

REFERENCES

Norge, Oslo: Mittet, 1959

Blindheim, Martin, Norwegian Romanesque Decorative Sculpture, 1090-1210, London: Alec Tiranti, 1965

Solhaug, Mona Bramer, Middelalderens døpefonter i Norge, Oslo: Unipub forlag -- Det historisk filosofiske fakultetet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001