Hagshult
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hagshults kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, slutet av 1100-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2283-105.TIF] of 1927 B&W photograph by Paul Boberg, in the Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hagshults_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200081017.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
design element - motifs - rope moulding
animal - mammal - quadruped - foliated tongue - passant
animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - bi-corporate - holding its tails
design element - patterns - sawtooth or zigzag
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns - columns with capitals
view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hagshults kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2014 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5DSC_0116_Hagshults_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hagshults kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 August 2014 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5DSC_0112_Hagshults_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hagshults kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.foto, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 12 April 2009 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Växjö_stift,_Hagshults_kyrka096.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hagshults kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 31 December 1923 in the Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAGSHULT.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD-user
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hagshults kyrka [...] Ritning av kyrkan av Chr. Höök, 1777, avfotograferad."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2283-002.TIF] of a 1777 drawing by Chr. Höök, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hagshults_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200080892.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hagshults kyrka [...] Södra väggen efter restaurering." -- 17thC mural paintings, formerly whitewashed, uncovered in the 1940 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2283-016.TIF] of 1940 B&W photograph by Sven Wahlgren, in the Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hagshults_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200080916.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hagshults kyrka [...] Ritning av kyrkan, 1780, avfotograferad."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2283-003.TIF] of a 1780 drawing in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hagshults_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200080893.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
design element - motifs - rope moulding
human figure - head - 4
design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: discernible traces in the shelf-like areas of the upper half of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910713F2] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: or protomes, perhaps animal; much damaged and eroded now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910713F2] [accessed 2 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06255HAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Nottebäcksgruppen, Njudungsmästaren group [Johansson] / Njudungsmästarens posthuma verkstad / Bestiarius, Group 4 [Drake] / Njudungsgruppen [SHM] / Njudungsgruppens variant 3 [Borg]
Church / Chapel Name: Hagshults kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end
Church Notes: 12th-13thC(?) church; expanded 16thC; modified 18th, 19thC; restored 1940; 18thC belfry destroyed by fire 30 September 2020
Church Address: Hagshults kyrkby, 568 93 Skillingaryd, Sweden
Site Location: Småland, Jönköpings län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off local roads F803-F804 crossing, 4-5 km E of highway E4, about 25 km N of Värnamo, S of Jönköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Östbo härad / [formerly in Västra härad], Jönköpings län
Font Notes:
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Johansson (1925) puts this font in the 'Nottebäcksgruppen', itself within the 'Njungsmästaren' group. Noted in Blomqvist (1929) in his chaper on the 'Njudungsmästarens posthuma verkstad', with reference to Johansson. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a 'Njudungsgruppens variant 3' baptismal font made of sandstone in 1170-1220, decorated with an arcade of six arches containing lions and fabulous beasts; badly damaged. Listed as a baptismal font of the Bestiarius workshop (Group 4) in Drake (2002: 183). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910713F2] as a 'Njudungsgruppen' badly damaged baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century, decorated with six arches containing fabulous animals on the basin sides. No cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 451265 6355496
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.339747, 14.190344
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 20′ 23.09″ N, 14° 11′ 25.24″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 59 cm* / 58 cm**
Basin Depth: 24 cm*
Height of Base: 32 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 64 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 41 x 41 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910713F2] [NB: all measurements represent the fragmentary state of the font]
REFERENCES
- Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929, p. 23-24
- Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002, p. 54-55
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 183
- Johansson, Gotthard, "En romansk dopfuntsgrupp i Småland", vol. 8, no. 3-4 (1925), RIG-Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, 1925, pp. [206]-225; p. 218ff