Hedesunda
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - columns with capitals
Scene Description: all around the basin and underbowl
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI
design element - motifs - roll moulding
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information
Scene Description: SHM label for this font
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Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI
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Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI
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Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI
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view of base
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: no drain hole
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ulkl [Ulf Klingström], 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2011 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Hedesunda_kyrka_ext2.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2012]Ulkl [Ulf Klingström][http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Hedesunda_kyrka_ext2.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ulkl [Ulf Klingström], 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2011 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Hedesunda_kyrka_ext2.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2012]Ulkl [Ulf Klingström][http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Hedesunda_kyrka_int1.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2012]
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view of font
Scene Description: in the context of the SHM, 1991
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, 2011
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 March 1991 by Lennart Karlsson [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=93946] [accessed 9 October 2012]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 05802HED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: at the Stockholms Historiska Museum
Church/Chapel: Hedesunda kyrka [now at SHM]
Church Location: address and coordinates of the church: Sundbyvägen 3, 810 40 Hedesunda, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Gästrikland, Gävleborgs län
Directions to Site: Located off local road X507 [aka Södragävlevägen], E of county road 56, in the municipality and 30-35 km SSW of Gävle, 60-65 km NNW of Uppsala
Ecclesiastic Region: Uppsala stift -- Hedesunda församling
Historical Region: Gävleborgs Län
Font Location in Church: [in the SHM]
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / Baegerbladsfonte / Muschelcuppen / Musselcuppor / Musselcuppstyp [SHM]
Cognate Fonts: The fonts Östra-Herrestad in Skåne and Frötune in Uppland, for instance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lennart Karlsson, to the curator for the Medieval collections and the staff of the Statens Historiska Museum [now National Historiska Museum, Stockholm], for their help in documenting this font during out two visits
Church Notes: original 12thC stave church replaced by stone building in the 13thC; added-to by re-building in 1775
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cornell (1918). Mentioned as a reference font in Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland (1921- , Bd. II, hft. 3) Tynell (19132) refers to the font at Östra-Herrestad in Skåne as similar to the one at Frötuna in Uppland. In Roosval (1917). In Reutersvärd (1967). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910326F1] as a 'musselcuppstyp' baptismal font made of limestone in the second-half of the 13th century. Baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with a blind arcade of pointed arches on slender columns with simple capitals; raised on a conical pedestal base with a roll moulding atop. The font was moved from its original church into the SHM in 1883, but the church has now a 1937 replica copy in use, made of limestone by Gillis Grähs.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.379017, 17.019017
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 22′ 44.46″ N, 17° 1′ 8.46″ E
UTM: 33V 611314 6695328
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 62-62.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 78-78.5 cm* / 78 cm**
Basin Depth: 32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 46 cm*
Height of Base: 66 cm*
Height of Central Column: 39 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site at the SHM / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910326F1]
REFERENCES
Brandel, Sven, Sveriges kyrkor: Uppland, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1921-1984
Cornell, Henrik, Norrlands Kyrkliga Konst under Medeltiden, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells Bocktryckeri A.-B., 1918
Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967
Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917
Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921