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![Source caption: "Säve kyrka (Sankt Olovs kyrka) [...] Dopfunt av täljsten. Omkr. 1230-50. Av Thorbillus [sic]"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210327030_compressed.png)
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![Source caption: "Säve kyrka (Sankt Olovs kyrka) [...] Dopfunt av täljsten. Omkr. 1230-50. Av Thorbillus [sic]"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210327029_compressed.png)
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - detail
Scene Description: the unfinished part of the vine
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus or grapevine
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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![Source caption: "Säve kyrka (Sankt Olovs kyrka) [...] Före konservering. Fläckvis rengjord från övermålning."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210327032_compressed.png)
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view of church interior - baptismal dish
![Source caption: "Säve kyrka (Sankt Olovs kyrka) [...] Dopfat från 1647."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210327031_compressed.png)
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the front of the drainage mini-basin
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Scene Description: the drainage mini-basin
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Scene Description: incised on the upper sides of the stem
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09180SAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Thorkillus Workshop / Thorkillusgruppen
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at nearby Björlanda, and the one at Nun Monkton, in Yorkshire [cf. Font notes below]. Drake gives the fonts at Björlanda and the one at Rolfstorp, all three of the workshop of Master Thorkillus
Church / Chapel Name: Säve kyrka / S:t Olofs kyrka i Säve
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Olaf [aka Olaf II Haraldsson, Óláfr Haraldsson, Olav, Olav Haraldsson, Olave, Olof]
Church Notes: original church early-13thC
Church Address: Svensbyvägen, 423 70 Säve -- Tel.: +46 31 731 55 20
Site Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on Hisingen island, 8-10 km N of Göteborg, and now part of its municipality
Historical Region: Västra Hisings härad
Additional Comments: not clear whether this parish is in Bohuslän or Västergötland (parts of the island are divided between the two counties); the SHM has it in Bohuslän
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878) who cite Paley's book of 1844 for references to English baptismal fonts which, like this one, have an additional mini-basin for drainage; this font, however, has it carved as part of the lower base, with an odd system of drainage which, starting through the bottom of the basin, connects with the upper side of the stem and has a little hole on the side; to all appearances the water then drops off to the mini-basin below and onto consecrated ground. Quite rare! [cf. infra]. This font is mentioned in Bond (1908: 63) as one of two Swedish baptismal fonts [the other one mentioned in Bond is Björland [i.e., Björlanda] that have "a small cup-like hollow containing a drain at the base of the font, and in it is a small vessel which could be taken out and used to receive the drippings, which then would be poured into the hollow at the base of the font". Bond (ibid.) gives the font at Nun Monkton in Yorkshire, as an English font that "has a small hollow in precisely this position". Noted in
Tynell (1913). Hallbäck (1961) describes it as a baptismal font made of soapstone in the 13th century by "dopfuntmästaren Thorkillus"; he further remarks on a brass baptismal dish of 1647. Drake (2002: 156) describes it as one of three fonts -Björlanda and Rolfstorp are the others- from the workshop of Master Thorkillus. [cf. Index entry for the Björlanda font for details]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F1] as a baptismal font made of soapstone ca. 1200, belonging to the Thorkillusgruppen of fonts in this area.
Tynell (1913). Hallbäck (1961) describes it as a baptismal font made of soapstone in the 13th century by "dopfuntmästaren Thorkillus"; he further remarks on a brass baptismal dish of 1647. Drake (2002: 156) describes it as one of three fonts -Björlanda and Rolfstorp are the others- from the workshop of Master Thorkillus. [cf. Index entry for the Björlanda font for details]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F1] as a baptismal font made of soapstone ca. 1200, belonging to the Thorkillusgruppen of fonts in this area.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 673432 6410492
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.802778, 11.918611
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 48′ 10″ N, 11° 55′ 7″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining [cf. FontNotes]
Diameter (includes rim): 59 cm***
Font Height (less Plinth): 83.132 cm* / 82 cm** / ***
Notes on Measurements: * 2.8 fot. in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878) [1 fot = 29.69 cm] / ** Hallbäck (1961) / *** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F1]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 63
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 72-73 and 73fn1
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 32, 156, 184
- Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961, p. 36, 43ff
- Montelius, Oscar, Bohuslänska dopfuntar, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1878, p. 14, fn1 and fig. 8
- Swann, E., "Fonts of Unusual Shape, with Appendages", 1887, Proceedings of the Historical Society, 1887, pp. 67-82; p. 79
- Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921, p. 150fn