Hjalmseryd / Hjälmseryd / Hjelmseryd

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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

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"]

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Scene Description: showing only the remaining part of the basin; the upper end was reconstructed later.

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Blomqvist (1929)

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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

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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view of font in context - northeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lars Aronsson, 2006

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 1 October 2006 by Lars Aronsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LA2-vx06-hjalmseryds-gamla-dopfunt.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06256HJA
Church/Chapel: Hjälmseryds gamla kyrka
Church Location: Hjälmseryds kyrkby, S, Sävsjö, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off county road 30, E of highway E4, about 10 km NNW of Lammhult in the municipality and 20-25 km WSW of Sävsjö, 60-70 km SSE of Jönköping -- the new church is located about 5 km from the old one
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Östra härad, Jönköpings län
Font Location in Church: Inside the old church, at the E end, S side
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Njudungsmästaren [Blomqvist, Damberg] / Njudungsgruppen [SHM] / Njudungsgruppen variant 5 [Borg] / Bestiarius, Group 4 [Drake]
Church Notes: 12thC church; abandoned in the 1860s(?); became a ruin; restored in 1930s
Noted and illustrated in Blomqvist (1929) as a baptismal font of the 'Njudungsmästaren' made of sandstone in the 12th century. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a ''Njudungsgruppen variant 5' baptismal font made of sandstone in 1170-1220. Listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Bestiarius workshop (Group 4). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2] as a 'Njudungsgruppen' baptismal font made of sandstone in the late-12th century; the SHM notes that the upper rim area of the basin is a reconstruction, and that the lower base is a later, modern addition. Noted and illustrated by Dan Damberg (2016) in Värnamo.nu [https://värnamo.nu/nyheter/gamla-hjalmseryd-kyrka/] [accessed 29 May 2020]: "Dopfunten kommer från 1100-talet som anses tillverkad av den så kallade Njudungsmästaren." [NB: the modern parish church at Hjälmseryd has a modern font made of red granite].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.30775, 14.512944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 18′ 27.9″ N, 14° 30′ 46.6″ E
UTM: 33V 470657 6351749

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lined [appears to be a metal insert]
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm* / 65 cm** [at the reconstructed upper rim]
Basin Depth: 28.5 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 33 cm*
Basin Total Height: 38 cm*
Height of Base: 25 cm* [lower base not included]
Font Height (less Plinth): 65 cm* [lower base not included] / 96 cm** [lower base included]
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910531F2]

REFERENCES

Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929
Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002