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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: rib-like [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920609F2] [accessed 12 October 2010]

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design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 3

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920609F2] [accessed 12 October 2010]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920609F2] [accessed 12 October 2010]

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design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles - 2-strand

Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim, consistent with the removal of cover hardware

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920609F2] [accessed 12 October 2010]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption; "Tvärreds kyrkoruin [...] Kyrkoruinen, teckning i Djurklous Elfsborgs län I, 1868, avfotograferad." -- the old church interior, looking towards the west portal

Image Source: digital image [12016-010.tif] of an 1868 drawing in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tvärreds_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200171270.jpg] [accessed 18 March 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tvärreds_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 18 March 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the stone font originally from the medieval church is visible here in the southeast corner of the new church

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2020 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tvärred_kyrkas_kyrkosal.jpg] [accessed 18 March 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption; "Tvärreds kyrka [...] Dopfunt, 1100- eller 1200-talet."

Image Source: digital image [2532-004.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tvärreds_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169505.jpg] [accessed 18 March 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in the parish church ca. 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920609F2] [accessed 12 October 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16949TVA

Museum and Inventory Number: [in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum until 1981

Church/Chapel: Tvärreds kyrka

Church Location: Stavaredsvägen 15, 523 94 Tvärred, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located off the crossroad of the O1709 [aka Tvärredsvägen] and O1710 local roads, S of highway 40, W of Åsunden, 10 km SSW of Ulricehamn and in its municipality -- the ruins of the medieval church are located in Tvärredslund

Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift [since 2010]

Historical Region: Kinds härad, Älvsborgs län

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church since 1981 [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mäster Andreas workshop?

Cognate Fonts: other fonts attributed to the workshop of master Andreas: Finnekumla, etc.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the staff at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum, and to Lennart Karlsson, of the SHM, for their help in documenting this font

Church Notes: medieval church demolished 1855-1856; new church built on new site, consecrated 1854;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Hallbäck (1966) and (1971) as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the 12th century probably by master Andreas [cf. infra]; it had been found disused in Åsunden in 1876 and sent to the Göteborgs museum; in 1981 the museum returned it to the new church. The archival records of the Göteborgs stadsmuseum note that this baptismal font had been found [ca. 1876?] in the Tvärred churchyard; it was later moved to the Göteborgs stadsmuseum where it remained until 1981 [ref. G.M. 299:1-2. The Museum records further note its return to the parish church in 1981. Described and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920609F2] with suggested date ca. 1200 and the material identified as sandstone; this source notes the attribution to Andreas in Hallbäck (1971) obviously not agreeing with it, and attributing it instead to a regional workshop [="Upphovsman: regional verkstad"]. The font consists of a round basin with veryical sides and a tall chamfered underbowl, raised on a round splaing base with a thick roll moulding at its neck; the basin sides are decorated with a two-strand interlace of linked circles, and has suffered quite a bit of damage; the underbowl has large rib-like leaves all around; the lower base has three grooves as well as the mentioned moulding. The inner basin well is un-lined and has a central drain hole. A new font is reported installed in the new church in 1949 but we have no information on it, being presumabli modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.725667, 13.314083

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 43′ 32.4″ N, 13° 18′ 50.7″ E

UTM: 33V 399592 6399418

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: 2

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm** / ***

Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm* / ** / ***

Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1966) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920609F2] / *** Göteborgs stadsmuseum

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; r["References"]