Varvik / Vårvik

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded - 3

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930715F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=930715F1] [accessed 3 November 2020]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930715F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=930715F1] [accessed 3 November 2020]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930715F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=930715F1] [accessed 3 November 2020]

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design element - motifs - star-shaped

Scene Description: radiating outwards from the centre of of the underbowl

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930715F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=930715F1] [accessed 3 November 2020]

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design element - patterns - sawtooth

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930715F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=930715F1] [accessed 3 November 2020]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2003 by Lars Bergström [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vårvikskyrka21500001452161.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vårviks kyrka [...] Vid sjön Västra Silen. Bilden troligen från omkring 1980."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pål-Nils Nilsson / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1980

Image Source: digital image [PNN00684] of a ca. 1980 photograph by Pål-Nils Nilsson in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vårviks_kyrka_-_KMB_-__16000300030520.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the medieval font is visible on the right [southeast] side

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Bertil Högberg in Hallbäck (1959) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vårviks_kyrka_Bapsimal_font.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2020]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930715F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=930715F1] [accessed 3 November 2020]

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view of font in context

INFORMATION

FontID: 13315VAR
Church/Chapel: Vårviks kyrka
Church Location: Vårviks kyrkby, 666 93 Bengtsfors, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 531 120 60
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Dalsland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located at the E end of local road O2253, on an island in Lake Västra Silen, in the municipality and about 15 km N of Bengtsfors, about 10 km E of the border with Norway
Ecclesiastic Region: Karlstads stift
Historical Region: Vedbo härad / Älvsborgs län (pre1997)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Dalslandsgruppen [SHM] / Norwegian 'angular' group [Drake]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Adrian James, Asst. Librarian, Society of Antiquaries of London, for his help in documenting this font.
Church Notes: 13thC stave church replaced by another stave church in 1662; present church 1943-1846
Noted in Hallbäck (1959) with an illustration by Bertil Högberg, as a baptismal font made of soapstone in the 13th century. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930715F1] as a Dalslandsgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone ca. 1200. Noted and illustrated in Drake (2002); the entry is somewhat confusing as Drake lists this font under Sweden as part of a "Norwegian 'angular' group" in southwest Sweden. Baptismal font consisting of a round basin with tapering sides raised on a cylindrical stem and flat splaying lower base; there is a thin rope moulding around the basin, about halfway down; the underbowl is flat but has radiating tips projecting out from its centre; the inner well of the basin is lead lined; the lining is modern; the lower piece consists of stem and lower base; the stem has rope moulding near the top, damaged in at least one place; the lower base has three graded concentric circles; the whole is raised on a modern wooden plinth. A B&W photograph of this font [from Drake's book] can be seen at the Archaeology Data Service web site [https://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue] [accessed 18 January 2008]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.183333, 12.21
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 11′ 0″ N, 12° 12′ 36″ E
UTM: 33V 340591 6563801

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined?
Diameter (includes rim): 62 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 67 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1959), p. 36 / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930715F1]

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar på Dal, Vänersborg: [Vänersborgs museum], 1959