Kalvsvik

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: waterccolour painting of the old wooden church about a year before it was demolished -- Source caption: "Kalvsviks [gamla] kyrka [...] Raä-nr: Kalvsvik 13:1. Medeltida träkyrka, riven 1855. Akvarell och krita av C.G. Hjertsäll 28 september 1854."

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Image Source: digital image [htsm0134] 6 July 2015 by Lars Kennerstedt of a 28 September 1854 by C.G. Hjertsäll, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalvsviks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000535361.jpg] [accessed 17 August 2020]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kalvsviks kyrka. Kyrkan uppfördes i nyklassicistisk stil efter ritningar av Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander. Kyrkan togs i bruk redan 1852 men invigdes inte förrän 1861 av biskop Henrik Gustaf Hultman."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, Lindås, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2012 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalvsviks_kyrka007.JPG] [accessed 17 August 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kalvsviks kyrka. Kyrkan uppfördes i nyklassicistisk stil efter ritningar av Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander. Kyrkan togs i bruk redan 1852 men invigdes inte förrän 1861 av biskop Henrik Gustaf Hultman"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2014 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalvsviks_kyrka_001.JPG] [accessed 17 August 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2018 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalvsviks_kyrkorum.jpg] [accessed 17 August 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible here in the northwest corner of the nave, between the candelabra on the left and the modern lectern on the right

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2018

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 August 2018 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalvsviks_kyrkorum.jpg] [accessed 17 August 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the restored font in the northeast corner of the mid-19thC church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/057232/images/57232_62176398] [accessed 17 August 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06288KAL
Church/Chapel: Kalvsviks kyrka
Church Location: Kalvsviks kyrkby, Växjö SV, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Kronobergs län
Directions to Site: Located off local road G693, on the N shore of the Kalsviksfjorden, 15-20 km SSW of Växjö and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Kinnevalds härad, Kronobergs län, Småland
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, in the NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: attributed to the Bestiarius workshop [Drake]
Church Notes: medieval [ca. 1220?] wooden church documented 1336; old church described and illustrated in 1848 by Nils Månsson Mandelgren; new church built 1851 but not consecrated until 1861; old church demolished 1855
No entry found for this font in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld. Listed in Drake (2002: 183) as one of several baptismal fonts "[a]ttributed to the Bestiarius workshop but not verified".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.719133, 14.724297
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 43′ 8.88″ N, 14° 43′ 27.47″ E
UTM: 33V 483126 6286156

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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