Hjalmseryd / Hjälmseryd / Hjelmseryd

Image copyright © Dan Damberg, 2016
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - amphisbaena - three heads - passant

Scene Description: passant to the left, with the second head regardant; the tail end is a head, as expected in an amphisbaena; notice interlace pattern at chest level
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - quadruped - winged - passant - holding a staff or processional cross - interlace
![passant to the left; with interlace patterns on the front half of the body, and grooves on the rear half -- the caption in the SHM image identifies the head as human ["fabeldjur med människohuvud"]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200529023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: passant to the left; with interlace patterns on the front half of the body, and grooves on the rear half -- the caption in the SHM image identifies the head as human ["fabeldjur med människohuvud"]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged lion - foliated tongue - interlace - passant

Scene Description: passant to the left; the tongue looks acanthus-shaped
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail - interlace - passant-gardant

Scene Description: the acanthus-like tail end is seen here by the lower hind leggs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tongue - foliated tail - interlace - passant

Scene Description: passant to the left; the hanging tongue looks like a boot but the richly foliated tail end seemingly sprouting out of its back resembles the motifs in the spandrels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns - columns with capitals

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

Scene Description: all around the side of the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: only a small section has survived, seen here on the right, below the zig-zag fragment -- the original base was probably of the two-tiered type, with broad rope-patterned mouldings and heads at 90-degree angles on both levels as well; it is now little more than a stump, to which was added a later lower base to raise the height of the font to a functional level
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: only a small section has survived, seen here on the right, above the vine fragment -- the original base was probably of the two-tiered type, with broad rope-patterned mouldings and heads at 90-degree angles on both levels as well; it is now little more than a stump, to which was added a later lower base to raise the height of the font to a functional level
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: all around tghe lower side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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view of basin - iconographic program
view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the medieval church in ruins before its 1930s restoration
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Image Source: digital image [MS002620] of an undated B&W photograph by Mårten Sjöbeck, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hjälmseryds_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000017025.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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view of church exterior and interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ritning av kyrkan samt teckning av kyrkan, klockstapeln, kyrkans västra gavel och södra portal, 1853, avfotograferad."
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Image Source: digital image [2282-158.TIF] of 1937 B&W photograph by Iwar Anderson of a 1853 drawing in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hjälmseryds_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169831.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: with the detached bell tower on the left
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Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2009 by Pieter Kuiper [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hjälmseryd_klockstapel_och_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Interi[o]r of the reconstructed old church of Hjälmseryd"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200529018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interi[o]r of the reconstructed old church of Hjälmseryd"
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Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2009 by Pieter Kuiper [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hjämseryd_gamla_kyrka_interiör.JPG] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910531F2] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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view of font - upper view

Scene Description: showing the liner-like metal insert in it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dan Damberg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2016 by Dan Damberg in Värnamo.nu [https://värnamo.nu/nyheter/gamla-hjalmseryd-kyrka/] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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