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design element - patterns - weaved - 3-strand

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

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

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view of church exterior - east end - south side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Valla kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder med gravkoret."

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

Scene Description: Source caption: "Valla kyrka [...] Hvitfeldtska gravkoret, från söder, före restaureringen."

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 exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by Fred J

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view of church interior - altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by Fred J

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: this undated photograph show the replacement font [wooden?] at the east end of the centre aisle

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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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by Fred J

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Valla kyrka [...] Medeltida dopfunt."

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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view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in the church ca. 1995

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 in context

Scene Description: as photographed inside the church at Valla in 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by Fred J

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16944VAL

Museum and Inventory Number: in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum [storage unit] until 1961

Church/Chapel: Valla kyrka

Church Location: Valla kyrkväg 31, 471 72 Hjälteby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 304 66 00 55

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave [cf. fontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sven-Torbjörngruppen / Sven-Torbjörnsgruppen

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: medieval church demolished; present church 1859-1861 incorporated the 'gravkoret' from the old church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.042292, 11.716414

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 2′ 32.25″ N, 11° 42′ 59.09″ E

UTM: 32V 660349 6436645

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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

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