Valla
Image copyright © Fred J, 2005
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view of font in context
Scene Description: as photographed inside the church at Valla in 2005
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by Fred J
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view of font
Scene Description: as displayed in the church ca. 1995
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 951014F6] [accessed 10 October 2010]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Valla kyrka [...] Medeltida dopfunt."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210328017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Valla kyrka [...] Medeltida dopfunt."
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Image Source: digital image [2372-33.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200069685.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]
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design element - patterns - weaved - 3-strand
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 951014F6] [accessed 10 October 2010]
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital image of a illustration in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878)
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fred J, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by Fred J
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view of church exterior - east end - south side
![Source caption: "Valla kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder med gravkoret."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210328015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Valla kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder med gravkoret."
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Image Source: digital image [2372-6.TIF] of a 1944 B&W photograph by Bertil Berthelson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200006313.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]
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view of church exterior - east end - south side - detail
![Source caption: "Valla kyrka [...] Hvitfeldtska gravkoret, från söder, före restaureringen."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210328014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Valla kyrka [...] Hvitfeldtska gravkoret, från söder, före restaureringen."
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Image Source: digital image [2372-2.TIF] of a 1925 B&W photograph by Axel Forssén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200006271.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]
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view of church interior - altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fred J, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by Fred J
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fred J, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by Fred J
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view of church interior - looking east
![this undated photograph show the replacement font [wooden?] at the east end of the centre aisle](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210328016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: this undated photograph show the replacement font [wooden?] at the east end of the centre aisle
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Image Source: digital image [2372-13.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200069665.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16944VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sven-Torbjörngruppen / Sven-Torbjörnsgruppen
Museum: in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum [storage unit] until 1961, G.M. 145
Church / Chapel Name: Valla kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave [cf. fontNotes]
Church Notes: medieval church demolished; present church 1859-1861 incorporated the 'gravkoret' from the old church
Church Address: Valla kyrkväg 31, 471 72 Hjälteby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 304 66 00 55
Site Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off local road O712 [aka Valla kyrkväg], in the municipality and about 15 km NE of Tjörn
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Tjörns härad
Additional Comments: moved font / disused font / restored font
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878). Noted in Hallbäck (1961) as a baptismal font made of soapstone in the 12th century, of a group of fonts made by the masters Sven and Torbjörn; it is badly damaged, the bottom of the basin missing; donated in 1872 to the Göteborgs stadsmuseum. Described and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld' [ref.: 951014F6] as a baptismal font made of soapstone and dated to the mid-12th century, of the 'Sven-Torbjörngruppen' type [NB: the SHM photographs probably date from ca. 1995]. On-site notes at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum [storage unit]: the font is no longer in the museum; it appears to have been returned to the church in 1961, where it was mounted an an additional modern lower base, as photographed in August 2005]. The font consists now of a bucket-shaped basin decorated with a weave of three-strand interlace on the sides, raised on a quadrangular lower base of two volumes, the lower of which is modern. The entry in Medeltidens bildvärld notes that Hallbäck [cf. supra] had reported a central drain hole in the centre of the basin well, but it was later plugged with cement; the Göteborgs stadsmuseum's records indicate the existence of a drain hole 4 cm wide in the basin well. The font is in a good state of repair in general, but there is some minor damage to the upper rim of the basin [not known whether related to cover hardware].
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 660349 6436645
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.042292, 11.716414
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 2′ 32.25″ N, 11° 42′ 59.09″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: now plugged [cf. FontNotes] -- no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 40 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm* / 59 cm** / 59.38 cm***
Basin Total Height: 42 cm* / 35.628 cm***
Height of Base: 20 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 56 cm** [including only the upper / old lower base] / 60 cm****
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld / ** Göteborgs stadsmuseum / *** Montelius & Brusewitz (1878) [NB: the discrepancy in height may be accounted by the fact that the basin sinks several cms into the lower base] [Swedish fot=29.69 cm] / **** Hallbäck (1961)
REFERENCES
- Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961, p. 15-27, 46
- Montelius, Oscar, Bohuslänska dopfuntar, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1878, p. 11 and fig. 5