Vanga / Vänga

PD Sweden

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design element - architectural - building - church - stave church

Scene Description: the upper part of the finial

Image Source: digital image [2466-005.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vänga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008092.jpg] [accessed 1 July 2020]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital image [2466-006.tif] of an undated drawing, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vänga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000008107.jpg] [accessed 1 July 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: the present church built in 1905-1906; restored 1956

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vänga_kyrka] [accessed 1 July 2020]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt och dopfuntslock. Tryck efter teckning."

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view of font cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfuntslock. Daterat 1645. Locket är koniskt, grönmålat och med ett litet hus på toppen."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06400VAN

Church/Chapel: Vänga kyrka [nya kyrka]

Church Location: Vänga kyrby, 513 92 Fristad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 33 22 23 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located off local road O1722, W of Riksväg 42, 6 km NW of Fristad, in the municipality and about 20 km N of Borås

Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift

Historical Region: Vedens härad, Älvsborgs län

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: present church is the fourth here: 1)wooden church 1160 --> 2)wooden church 1240; --> 3)stone church 1642; demolished 1905; --> 4)present church 1905-1906; restored 1956

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Noted In Hallbäck (1966) as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200; it consists of a roughly cylindrical basin with a rounded underbowl, rope moulding towards the lower side of the basin; round splaying lower base with a much eroded moulding that may have been originally rope patterned; central drain. Hallbäck (ibid.) dates the lid to 1645. Lagerlöf (1985) informs that the 12th century baptismal font and cover -originally from the old wooden church demolished in 1905- survived and were installed in the new church. This same source (ibid., fig. 138 on p. 115) illustrates the 12th century wooden font cover: conical wooden lid, totally plain up to the finial; the finial is a four-sided knob with medallion-like sides on which some text or numbers appear (illegible in the source; the date?); on top of the know ia a church-like building with a four-sided steep roof much resembling some of the wooden church towers of this area.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.858817, 12.931642

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 51′ 31.74″ N, 12° 55′ 53.91″ E

UTM: 33V 377272 6414868

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: 2

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1966)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [the date 1645 may be the characters that appear on the lower side of the cover finial]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1645?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: painted green

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966

Lagerlöf, Erland, Medeltida träkyrkor II: Västergötland Värmland Närke, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1985