Finnekumla
Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: scallop-like; all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920609F3] [accessed 9 October 2010]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920609F3] [accessed 9 October 2010]
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design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles - 2-strand
Scene Description: all around the basin; some now damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920609F3] [accessed 9 October 2010]
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inscription
Scene Description: Runic inscription identifying the maker of the font: Andreas
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920609F3] [accessed 9 October 2010]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: 12thC church, much modified since; wooden tower of 1855
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finnekumla_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 9 December 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible on the right, behind the bank of benches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finnekumla_kyrka_interiör_mot_koret.JPG] [accessed 9 December 2020]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249. Teckning av Gustaf Brusewitz."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201209046_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249. Teckning av Gustaf Brusewitz."
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Image Source: digital image [2231-010.tif] of an undated drawing by Gustaf Brusewitz, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finnekumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200154269.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2020]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201209047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249."
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Image Source: digital image [2231-009.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finnekumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200154268.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2020]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249." -- the photograph appears to have been taken with the font on display at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum, where the font resided between the date of its donation in 1876 and 1920, the year when it was returned to the church [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201209049_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249." -- the photograph appears to have been taken with the font on display at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum, where the font resided between the date of its donation in 1876 and 1920, the year when it was returned to the church [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image [2231-012.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Harald Faith-Ell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finnekumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200154272.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2020]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201209050_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2231-013.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finnekumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200154273.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920609F3] [accessed 9 October 2010]
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view of font
Scene Description: the font dismatled; ca. 1954?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Göteborgs stadsmuseum, 2010
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1954 by H.W., supplied by the Göteborgs stadsmuseum to BSI
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view of font
Scene Description: the font dismatled; ca. 1954? notice the drain holes in both the basin and base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Göteborgs stadsmuseum, 2010
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1954 by H.W., supplied by the Göteborgs stadsmuseum to BSI
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunten i Finnekumla kyrka med runinskrift av Mäster Andreas. Signum Vg 251." -- the font seen here at the east end of the nave, south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finnekumla_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 9 December 2020]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249." -- it shows the font on display at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum, where the font resided between the date of its donation in 1876 and 1920, the year when it was returned to the church [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201209048_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Finnekumla Kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, signerad Andreas, 1100-1249." -- it shows the font on display at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum, where the font resided between the date of its donation in 1876 and 1920, the year when it was returned to the church [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2231-011.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finnekumla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200154270.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16943FIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Göteborgs stadsmuseum [between 1876 and 1920]
Church/Chapel: Finnekumlas kyrka
Church Location: Finnekumla 258, 520 11 Vegby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 321 283 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of local roads O1691, O1692 and O1693, N of highway 40, WNW of Ulriceham, NNE of Boras
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift [in Göteborgs stift until 2010]
Historical Region: Kinds härad, Älvsborgs län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [since 1920]
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Andreas master
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the staff at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum, and to Lennart Karlsson, of 'Medeltidens bildvärld', for their help in documenting this font
Church Notes: 12thC church; much modified since; wooden tower 1855
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Gustaf Brusewitz. Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1966). Described and illustrated in the archive of the Göteborgs stadsmuseum as a stone baptismal font probably of the first half of the 12th century bearing a Runic inscription that translates: 'Andreas gaerthe / Andreas gjorde" [i.e., Andreas made [it]]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920609F3] as an Andreas' baptismal font made of sandstone, dated to ca. 1200, and with a Runic inscription that transcribes: "Andreas gjorde". On-site notes [storage unit at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum]: not found in the storage unit; it had been donated to the museum in 1876 but was returned to the church in 1920. The sides of the basin are decorated with a pattern of linked interlaced tw-strand circles; on the chamfered underbowl is a scalloped foliage pattern and a thick roll moulding; the circular lower base is moulded and has a Runic inscription on the side identifying the carver of the font as Andreas. The inner well of the basin has a drain hole and is unlined [NB: 1954 photographs from the museum archive of the dismantled font show the round hole of the drain in both the basin and the base].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.655361, 13.347417
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 39′ 19.3″ N, 13° 20′ 50.7″ E
UTM: 33V 401386 6391543
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm** / 66 cm***
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm* / ** / 85 cm***
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1966) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920609F3] / *** Göteborgs stadsmuseum
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: runes
Inscription Notes: Swedish: "Andreas gjorde" -- English "Andreas made [it]"
Inscription Location: on the lower base sides
Inscription Text: "Andreas made [it]" [transcription of the Runic text not available]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966