Lomen

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - graded

Scene Description: showing he central drain hole in the old soapstone base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norske Kirker, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Norske Kirker [https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/oppland/lomen-stavkirke/] [accessed 9 December 2022]
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design element - patterns - intertwined vegetation

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kulturhistorisk Museum, Oslo, 2008
Image Source: detail of a photograph reproduced in Dectot (2008)
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view of base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norske Kirker, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Norske Kirker [https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/oppland/lomen-stavkirke/] [accessed 9 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lomen Stave Church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Soul Driver, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2022 by The Soul Driver [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lomen_stavkirke_18072022_(1).jpg] [accessed 9 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lomen Stave Church is a medieval wooden Church in Vestre Slidre municipality of Oppland county, eastern Norway."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bjoertvedt, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 6 October 2018 by Bjoertvedt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lomen_stavkirke_ID_84323_IMG_1849.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lomen Stave Church is a medieval wooden Church in Vestre Slidre municipality of Oppland county, eastern Norway."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bjoertvedt, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 6 October 2018 by Bjoertvedt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lomen_stavkirke_ID_84323_IMG_1865.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the modern font is partially visible in the chancel, left [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norske Kirker, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Norske Kirker [https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/oppland/lomen-stavkirke/] [accessed 9 December 2022]
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view of church interior - nave - looking north

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lomen Stave Church is a medieval wooden Church in Vestre Slidre municipality of Oppland county, eastern Norway. Interior view."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bjoertvedt, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 6 October 2018 by Bjoertvedt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lomen_stavkirke_ID_84323_IMG_1861.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2022]
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view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norske Kirker, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Norske Kirker [https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/oppland/lomen-stavkirke/] [accessed 9 December 2022]
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view of font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kulturhistorisk Museum, Oslo, 2008
Image Source: photograph reproduced in Dectot (2008)
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view of font cover

Scene Description: Source caption: " Det rikt utskårne, kjegleformete lokket til døpefonten er ett av en håndfull bevarte i Norge. Av Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo/via Arfo forlag. "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo/via Arfo forlag, 2022
Image Source: digital image in Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo/via Arfo forlag, in Store Norse Leksikon [https://snl.no/Lomen_stavkirke] [accessed 9 December 2022]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 13931LOM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 [base only]
Museum and Inventory Number: Kulturhistorik Museum, Oslo
Church/Chapel: Lomen stavkyrkje [formerly Hvams kirke]
Church Location: Lomisgoto 18, 2967 Lomen, Norway
Country Name: Norway
Location: Oppland, Innlandet
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the E16 [aka Tyinvegen], in the municipality of Vestre Slidre, Valdres, 75-80 km W of Lillehammer
Ecclesiastic Region: Hamar bispedømme
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1179?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: Hvams kirke stave church of ca. 1192; documented 1325; re-built 1749; -- new church buit 1913
Font Notes:
***NOT YET DONE IN SOLHAUG*** Described and illustrated in Dectot (2008). Conical wooden font cover made from a single piece of pine wood and decorated with a busy pattern of interlaced vegetal motifs; the upper part has been trimmed off and only a pivot remains of that part. Dated in Dectot (ibid.) to the same period as the stave church itself [NB: the Riksantikvaren site [http://www.riksantikvaren.no/Norsk/Fagemner/Bygninger/Kirker/Stavkirker/filestore/Lomen.pdf] [accesed 31 October 2008] informs that dendrochronological dating of this stave church puts it ca. 1179.] The cover is now [2008] in the Kulturhistorik Museum, Oslo. Solhaug (2019): 116: "Verified medieval fonts of pine [wood]: barrel shaped, Øye in Oppland; rectangular, Nore in Buskerud; hour-glass shaped, Amotsdal in Telemark plus Veggli, Uvdal, and Rollag in Buskerud. Font cover: Lomen in Oppland." The entry for this church in Stavechurch.com [https://www.stavechurch.com/lomen-stave-church/?lang=en] [accessed 9 December 2022] notes: "Lomen Stave Church is believed to date back to around 1192 [...] Of the soapstone font from the Middle Ages, only the base remains." The entry for this church in Norske Kirker [https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/oppland/lomen-stavkirke/] [accessed 9 December 2022] reports that only the base of the medieval font, dated 1150-1200] remains, located in the chancel; the basin is believed lost; the cone-shaped wooden font cover has also survived an is in the Oldsaksamlingen collection in a museum: "Foten av middelalderdøpefonten (datert til perioden 1150-1200) står i koret, men kummen er gått tapt. Det kjegleformede lokket er bevart og oppbevares i Oldsaksamlingen. Det finnes også en nyere døpefont i kirken." The entry for this church by Sigrid Christie, Ola Storsletten and Anne Marta Hoff in Norges Kirker [https://norgeskirker.no/wiki/Lomen_gamle_kirke] [accessed 9 December 2022] notes that the old font was made of wood (the missing basin) and soapstone (the surviving cone-shaped moulded base: "Døpefont av klebersten og tre (invl. 1790).[...] Foten er fra 1150-1200 og godt bevart. Den er kjegleformet og avtrappet med fire trinn med forsenkning øverst. Stort avløpshull. H. 43 cm, diam. 76 cm, hull diam. 13 cm". Norges Kirker (ibid.) also gives a description of the old font cover: "Skåret døpefontlokk, middelaldersk (UKM C.17803, Hohler cat.no. 144), traktformet, dekket av rankeskurd som har meget tilfelles med kapitelenes skurd, med stengel og grener, tett opprullet og utformet med midtlinje. Bred «sponbord» nederst og smalere «sponbord» i øvre del, hvor lokket er forhugget og har fått et slags håndtak. H. 66 cm. Diam. 55 cm". The new font is also described in Norges Kirker (ibid.): "Døpefont fra omkr. 1800, åttekantet, timeglassformet med smalt, skåret, fasettert bånd øverst og bredt, vridd bånd rundt midtpartiet. Nederst en skåret list med fasetterte ledd (defekt). Gråmarmorert. H. 76,5 cm. Største tverrmål (øverst) 40 cm."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 61.134892, 8.923847
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 61° 8′ 5.61″ N, 8° 55′ 25.85″ E
UTM: 32V 495899 6777815

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone
Font Shape: [missing]
Height of Base: 43 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Norges Kirker; also given is the diameter of the base, 76 cm, but it may be of the bottom of the base

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1179?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes] -- Measurements: height=66 cm; diameter: 55 cm

REFERENCES

Dectot, Xavier, "La Norvège", Celtes et Scandinaves: recontres artistiques, VIIIe-XIIe siècle, Paris: Musée de Cluny - Musée national du Moyen-Age, 2008