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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the front of the drainage mini-basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F1] [accessed 30 December 2014]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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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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design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: incised on the upper sides of the stem

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view of basin

Scene Description: the drainage mini-basin

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2007 by Tor Svensson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säve_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 30 December 2007]

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view of church interior - baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Säve kyrka (Sankt Olovs kyrka) [...] Dopfat från 1647."

Image Source: digital image [625-69.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säve_kyrka_(Sankt_Olovs_kyrka)_-_KMB_-_16000200006409.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878)

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Säve kyrka (Sankt Olovs kyrka) [...] Dopfunt av täljsten. Omkr. 1230-50. Av Thorbillus [sic]"

Image Source: digital image [625-67.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säve_kyrka_(Sankt_Olovs_kyrka)_-_KMB_-_16000200006382.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Säve kyrka (Sankt Olovs kyrka) [...] Dopfunt av täljsten. Omkr. 1230-50. Av Thorbillus [sic]"

Image Source: digital image [625-71.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säve_kyrka_(Sankt_Olovs_kyrka)_-_KMB_-_16000200006393.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2021]

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Säve kyrka (Sankt Olovs kyrka) [...] Dopfunt av täljsten. Omkr. 1230-50. Av Thorbillus [sic]"

Image Source: digital image [625-68.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säve_kyrka_(Sankt_Olovs_kyrka)_-_KMB_-_16000200006384.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Säve kyrka (Sankt Olovs kyrka) [...] Före konservering. Fläckvis rengjord från övermålning."

Image Source: digital image [625-67.TIF] of a 1934 B&W photograph by E. J. Thorén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säve_kyrka_(Sankt_Olovs_kyrka)_-_KMB_-_16000200006523.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09180SAV

Church/Chapel: Säve kyrka / S:t Olofs kyrka i Säve

Church Patron Saints: St. Olaf [aka Olaf II Haraldsson, Óláfr Haraldsson, Olav, Olav Haraldsson, Olave, Olof]

Church Location: Svensbyvägen, 423 70 Säve -- Tel.: +46 31 731 55 20

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located on Hisingen island, 8-10 km N of Göteborg, and now part of its municipality

Historical Region: Västra Hisings härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master 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 Notes: original church early-13thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.802778, 11.918611

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 48′ 10″ N, 11° 55′ 7″ E

UTM: 32V 673432 6410492

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone

Number of Pieces: 3

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

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

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961

Montelius, Oscar, Bohuslänska dopfuntar, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1878

Swann, E., "Fonts of Unusual Shape, with Appendages", 1887, Proceedings of the Historical Society, 1887, pp. 67-82; r["References"]

Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921