Saby nr. Tranås/ Säby
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view of church exterior - east view
![Source caption: "Säby kyrka [...] Kyrkan mot öster."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210811060_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Säby kyrka [...] Kyrkan mot öster."
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Image Source: digital image [2549-001.TIF] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Algot Friberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200088255.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Säby kyrka." -- the original church was medieval but the present tower dates only from 1756
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fredrik Alpstedt, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2013 by Fredrik Alpstedt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säby_Kyrka_(9312365271).jpg] [accessed 11 August 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: Säby kyrka in the centre of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.Foto, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2014 by L.G.Foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säby_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2021]
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view of church interior - baptismal dish
![Source caption: "Säby kyrka [...] Dopskål, inskrift 1659."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210811064_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Säby kyrka [...] Dopskål, inskrift 1659."
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Image Source: digital image [2549-114.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200088477.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2021]
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view of church interior - looking west
![Source caption: "Säby kyrka [...] Interiör mot väster, efter restaureringen."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210811061_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Säby kyrka [...] Interiör mot väster, efter restaureringen."
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Image Source: digital image [2549-022.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200088316.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2021]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Säby kyrka [...] Dopfunt."
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Image Source: digital image [2549-109.TIF] of a 1921 B&W photograph by Tord O:son Nordberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200088470.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2021]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Säby kyrka [...] Koret, södra långväggen."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210811062_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Säby kyrka [...] Koret, södra långväggen."
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Image Source: digital image [2549-025.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Säby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200088323.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2021]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/057223/images/57223_32240387] [accessed 11 August 2021]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 18855SAB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Säby kyrka
Church Location: Säby kyrkby. 573 93 Tranås, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Jönköping, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off local road F1051, just E of the county road 123 and highway 32 crossroads, in the municipality and 6 km SW of Tranås, on the NW shores of the Säbysjön, 40-50 km NW of Jönköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end
Church Notes: church ca. 1200; modified 15thC; tower added 17th-18thC but demolished 1745; new tower built 1756; contains mural paintaings of ca. 1500
Font Notes:
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Present baptismal font made by Bernt von Münster in 1593 in Renaissance style; it consists of a rather shallow octagonal basin with moulded sides and a gadrooned underbowl with graded mouldings below; on a round pedestal base decorated with piping, round-to-square(?) moulded lower base. No cover present. The baptismal dish is inscribed with the date 1659. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.990244, 14.920764
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 59′ 24.88″ N, 14° 55′ 14.75″ E
UTM: 33V 495315 6427627
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: full text not available but it appears to be part of Mark 16:16 "qui crediderit et baptizatus fuerit"
Inscription Location: basin sides
Inscription Text: "[date] [...]RIT ET BAPT[...]"
Inscription Source: ImagesArea