Dalstorp

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns - double columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F8] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus

Scene Description: with interlacing palmette-like ends

Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F8] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F8] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F8] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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design element - motifs - vine

Image Source: original source unknown [perhaps Blomqvist (1929) or Fischer (1918); photocopy suopplied by the Göteborgs stadsmuseum to BSI

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design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles

Image Source: original source unknown [perhaps Blomqvist (1929) or Fischer (1918); photocopy suopplied by the Göteborgs stadsmuseum to BSI

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dalstrps kyrka [...] Fragment av medeltida fönsteromfattning."

Image Source: digital image [2229-009.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153438.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2020]

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view of church exterior - sacristy

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dalstorps kyrka [...] Gamla kyrkans sakristia som står kvar på gamla kyrkogården."

Image Source: digital image [2229-003.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Henrik Cornell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153432.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: view of the interior of the church that had replaced the medieval one in 1880; this church was totally destroyed in a 1962 fire

Image Source: digital image [2229-006.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Henrik Cornell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153435.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F8] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dalstorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt, romansk." -- view of the font on display at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum

Image Source: digital image [2229-011.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalstorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153440.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06239DAL

Museum and Inventory Number: Göteborgs stadsmuseum [in storage]

Church/Chapel: [orig. from Dalstorps kyrka]

Church Location: [NB: address and coordinates are for the church] 514 60 Dalstorp, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 325 61 20 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Dalstorp is located off local road O1728.01, just E of the 157, on the shores of lake Dalstorpasjön, 20 km SSE of Ulriceham, in the municipality and about 22 km NNE of Tranemo

Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift

Historical Region: Kinds härad, Älvsborgs län, Västergötland

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiarius font [Blomqvist] / Bestiarius - Group 1 [Drake]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the staff at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum, and to Lennart Karlsson, of 'Medeltidens bildvärld', for their help in documenting this font

Church Notes: medieval church demolished 1880, when new church came in use that year; new church destroyed by fire 1962; present church 1964-1965

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Blomqvist (1929) and in Hallbäck (1966), the former attributing it to a workshop near Bestiarius. Listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period belonging to the Bestiarius workshop (Group 1); the basin has a "cylindrical upper part above a steeply sloping lower section. Described and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920901F8] as a baptismal font made of limestone and dated ca. 1200 and noting Blmqvist attribution. On-site notes at Göteborgs stadsmuseum [storage unit]: cylindrical basin decorated with an elaborate and well-rendered pattern of foliage in an arcade of beaded-tape arch-heads on double columns with capitals and bases; palmette ends in the spandrels; thin rope moulding at the upper rim; a vine on the underbowl; raised on a circular stem decorated with an interlace pattern of linked circles; on a moulded lower base. The font is damaged, with large cracks, and one large chunk.missing from its rim. The modern font in this church is made of painted brick, an octagonal basin on a pedestal base.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.611456, 13.510494

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 36′ 41.24″ N, 13° 30′ 37.78″ E

UTM: 33V 411009 6386431

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 10 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm** / ***

Basin Depth: 27-29 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm* / 98 cm** / ***

Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1966) / ** BSI on site / *** [Medeltidens bildvärld]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [NB: the damage on the rim of the basin may have been caused by cover staple(s)]

REFERENCES

Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966