Levene / Lefvene
Image copyright © Robin Gullbrandsson, 2004
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robin Gullbrandsson, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2004 by Robin Gullbrandsson, Västergötlands museum [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000034922] [accessed 23 September 2020]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robin Gullbrandsson, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2004 by Robin Gullbrandsson, Västergötlands museum [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000034922] [accessed 23 September 2020]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bjoertvedt, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2015 by Bjoertvedt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vara_stora_levene_kyrka_IMG_3170.JPG] [accessed 23 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "Levene kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst. Tryck av teckning av Ernst Wennerblad, 1887."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200923002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Levene kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst. Tryck av teckning av Ernst Wennerblad, 1887."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2773-001.tif] of a 19 July 1887 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levene_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200161479.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior - southwest view
![Source caption: "Levene kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydväst."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200923003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Levene kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydväst."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2773-006.tif] of a 1925 B&W photograph by Ärland Noréen, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levene_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200161486.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bengt Oberger, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2012 by Bengt Oberger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levene_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 23 September 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Laverad tuschteckning av Levene kyrka, daterad 1833 Källa: Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara: MS Geografi Västergötland 1, bild 44"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an 1833 pen-and-ink drawing by Johan Gustaf Thun in the Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara: MS Geografi Västergötland 1, bild 44 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lefvene_Kyrka.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2020]
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view of font and baptismal dish
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robin Gullbrandsson, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2004 by Robin Gullbrandsson, Västergötlands museum [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000034922] [accessed 23 September 2020]
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view of font and baptismal dish in context
Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christian91, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Christian91 in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/057529/images/57529_98004439] [accessed 23 September 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the church interior, looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2773-019.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by K. J. R. Johansson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levene_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200161503.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font in context
![Source caption: "Levene kyrka [...] Dopfunt, medeltida. Snabbinv. Står ute på kyrkogården."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200923005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Levene kyrka [...] Dopfunt, medeltida. Snabbinv. Står ute på kyrkogården."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2773-030.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levene_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200161521.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font in context
Scene Description: the pre-1954 photograph shows the font outside, probably in the churchyard, disused, eroded and damaged; the centre ring appears to be detached here but was probably part of the base block
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145046:2976] of an undated [pre-1954] B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017201816/levene-socken-dopfunt] [accessed 23 September 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18770LEV
Church/Chapel: Levene kyrka
Church Location: Levene kyrkby, Skaravägen, 534 73 Stora Levene, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2546 [aka Skaravägen], N of highway 47, W of the E20, 8-9 km NNW and in the municipality of Vara, about 50 km WSW of Skara
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Viste härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: legend/tradition claims a church here built by Håkan Röde in the 11thC, but present church is 13th; much modified until its demolition in 1887, only the foundations and the font remain from the 13thC church
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone consisting of a plain roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round pedestal base decorated with a moulding atop; the font, which appeared disused, eroded and damaged in the churchyard, has been restored and returned to its liturgical function inside the church. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.329853, 12.902519
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 19′ 47.47″ N, 12° 54′ 9.07″ E
UTM: 33V 377174 6467348
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 2?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining