Dorarp / Dörarp

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Results: 21 records

Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross - processional cross - passant-regardant

Scene Description: passant to the left

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail - passant-regardant

Scene Description: passant to the right; identified in the SHM caption as a lion

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail - rampant

Scene Description: identified as a lion in the SHM caption

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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animal - unidentified - head - with pray - human prey

Scene Description: each of the four animal heads appears to have a human head as prey in its maw; all are too eroded now for identification

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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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: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: in many of the empty spaces around the animals

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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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: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: damaged now

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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design element - patterns - sawtooth or zigzag

Scene Description: all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church at Dörarp, Småland, Sweden"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Udo Schröter, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 2 June 2010 by Udo Schröter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dörarps_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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view of church exterior - belfry

Scene Description: Source caption; "Tower at Dörarps church, Småland, Sweden"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Udo Schröter, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 2 June 2010 by Udo Schröter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dörarps_klockstapel.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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view of church exterior - drawing

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hallsjö kyrkoruin [...] Kyrkoruinen, samt planlösning. Foto efter teckning ur Ihrfors: Smolandia." [NB: the font at Dörarp is said to have originated in Hallsjö church, of which only the ruins remain]

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Image Source: digital image [11353-001.TIF] of an undated [pre-1929] drawing in Ihrfors' Smolandia (1938), in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hallsjö_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200132718.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dörarps kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder. Ur Ihrfors, Smolandia VII [...] 1938" [NB: publication date? Ihrfors died in 1929]

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Image Source: digital image [2050-004.TIF] of an undated [pre-1929] drawing in Ihrfors' Smolandia VII (1938), in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dörarps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200070970.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dörarps kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydväst."

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Image Source: digital image [2050-001.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dörarps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200070967.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view - ruins

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hallsjö kyrkoruin, Småland" [NB: the font at Dörarp is said to have originated in Hallsjö church, of which only the ruins remain]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hedning, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 5 July 2009 by Hedning [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hallsjö_kyrkoruin_2009.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dörarps kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster."

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Image Source: digital image [2050-009.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dörarps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200070975.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dörarps kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster. Efter restaureringen." [NB: the interior was restored in 1932]

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Image Source: digital image [2050-013.TIF] of an undated [1932+?] B&W photograph by Osval Owald, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dörarps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200070979.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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view of church interior - looking northeast - ruin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirchenruine Hallsjö" [NB: the font at Dörarp is said to have originated in Hallsjö church, of which only the ruins remain]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olaf Meister, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2011 by Olaf Meister [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchenruine_Hallsjö.JPG] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dörarps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten. På foten djurhuvuden bitande över människohuvuden. På cuppans liv djur i reliefer under rundbågsarkader. Från 1200-talet."

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Image Source: digital image [2050-058.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dörarps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200071024.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] [accessed 23 September 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06285DOR
Church/Chapel: Dörarps kyrka [may be originally from Hallsjö kyrka]
Church Location: Dörarps kyrkby, 341 55 Vittaryd, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 372 320 69
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Kronobergs län
Directions to Site: Located off (W) local road G557, just W of the E4, 7 km NE of Vittaryd, in the municipality and 15-20 km NNE of Ljungby
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Sunnerbo härad, Kronobergs län
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sunnerbogruppen med Våxtorp II [Blomqvist, Borg] / Bestiariusgruppen [SHM] / Bestiarius [Drake]
Church Notes: 13thC(?) much modified since;
Noted in Blomqvist (1929) in his chapter on fonts of the 'Huvudmästarnas efterföljare', sharing in what appears to be a subgroup he refers to as "Våxtorp II" within the 'Sunnerbrogruppen' [cf. Borg below]. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a 'Sunnerbogruppen med Voxtorp II' baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1170. Listed in Drake (2002: 183) as one of several baptismal fonts "[a]ttributed to the Bestiarius workshop but not verified". Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3] as a 'Bestiariusgruppen' baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century. No cover present. [NB: an uncorroborated source claims that this font was identified in a 1759 document [no reference to the source given] as the baptismal font originally from the nearby church of Hallsjö].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.99075, 14.008028
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 59′ 26.7″ N, 14° 0′ 28.9″ E
UTM: 33V 439726 6316794

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm* / 77 cm**
Basin Depth: 27 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 36 cm*
Basin Total Height: 51 cm* [calculated from Borg]
Height of Base: 26 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 77 cm* / **
Trapezoidal Basin: 48 x 48 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F3]

REFERENCES

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