Kyrkas in Essunga / Kyrckås / Kyrkås / Kyrkieåss / Sandbäcken
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: finely executed
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human figure - standing - holding object
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200623022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt, sten, från omkring 1100, detalj, ristning på cuppan."
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Image Source: digital image [2781-008.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyrkås_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200160865.jpg] [accessed 23 June 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing both the incised figure and the vine above
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkan och klockstapeln från nordväst. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad 1896."
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Image Source: digital image [2781-001.tif] of a 14 January 1896 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyrkås_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200160857.jpg] [accessed 23 June 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joel Grafström, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2017 by Joel Grafström [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyrkås_kyrka_20170802.jpg] [accessed 23 June 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt, sten, från omkring 1100."
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västergötlands museum, 2020
Image Source: digital image [1M16-D564] of an undated photograph, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017229593/1m16-d564] [accessed 23 June 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: the squat base is modern [cf. FontNotes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06399KYR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Kyrkås kyrka
Church Location: Kyrkås 504, 465 93 Nossebro, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2503, 6 km S of Nossebro, 20 km SW of Vara, 80 km NE of Göteborg, in the municipality of Essunga
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Barne härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the later church
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Skaramästaren?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: The old font and a Madonna are the only surviving "furnishings" from the old wooden church demolished in the 18th century; the new church was built in the late-17thC; renovated 1946
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1971) who attributes it to the Skaramästaren and gives the font at Norra Lundby as cognate or related. Lagerlöf (1985: 18, 253) informs that a stone baptismal font of the 13th century survived from the old wooden church demolished in the 18th century; this same source (ibid., fig. 4 on p. 18) illustrates a scale drawing done in 1878 by N M Mandelgren in which the font appears as a a tub-shaped cylindrical object, with two wide rims, upper and lower, and some pattern ornamentation around the basin sides; the caption on the original drawing reads "Dopfunt a[?]f sandsten 1 1/4 ab[?] tr[?]". Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920702F3] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the mid-12th century, with reference to Hallbäck [cf. supra]; the SHM entry notes that the base is nodern. [NB: is it possible that the figure on the basin and the vine on the rim are not from the same carver or period? The vine is a finely executed work whereas the figure appears crude by comparison; a later addition?].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.1372, 12.7109
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 8′ 13.92″ N, 12° 42′ 39.24″ E
UTM: 33V 365227 6446272
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 58 cm*
Basin Total Height: 53 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920702F3]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; p. 114, 296
Lagerlöf, Erland, Medeltida träkyrkor II: Västergötland Värmland Närke, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1985