Eidfjord / Eiðafjörðr
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coat of arms - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norges Kirker, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in Norges Kirker [http://www.norgeskirker.no/prod/wiki-prod/images/Eidfjord_gamle%2C_døypefont%2C_AMH_2005.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2015 by John Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2014 by John Wilkes
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: early-20thC photograph
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph by Domenico Erdmann (1879-1940) in Riksantikvaren - Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning [http://kulturminnebilder.ra.no/fotoweb/default.fwx?search=T277_01_0041] [accessed 18 May 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: photographed in 1912
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Digital kopi av 1912 original: Negativ s/h glass 16 x 21 by Anders Beer Wilse (1865-1949) in Riksantikvaren - Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning [www.nb.no/cgi-bin/galnor/gn_sok.sh?id=78646&skjema=2&fm=4] [accessed 18 May 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirkesøk, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirkesøk [www.kirkesok.no/kirker/Eidfjord-gamle-kyrkje] [accessed 18 May 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirkesøk, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirkesøk [www.kirkesok.no/kirker/Eidfjord-gamle-kyrkje] [accessed 18 May 2014]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norges Kirker, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in Norges Kirker [http://www.norgeskirker.no/prod/wiki-prod/images/Eidfjord_gamle%2C_døypefont%2C_AMH_2005.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19213EID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eidfjord gamle kirke / Eidfjord gamle kyrkje
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Country Name: Norway
Location: Hordaland
Directions to Site: Located on highway 7, near Ulvik, at the innermost point of the Hardangerfjorden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bjørgvin [formerly in the Ancient Diocese of Stavanger]
Historical Region: Hardangerfjorden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1680?
Century and Period: 17th century(late?)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: original church ca. 1309; present church probably ca. 1631 [source: www.kirkesok.no/kirker/Eidfjord-gamle-kyrkje] [accessed 18 May 2014]]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of 1680 ["Døypefonten er frå 1680" -- source: www.kirkesok.no/kirker/Eidfjord-gamle-kyrkje] [accessed 18 May 2014]. Described and illustrated in Anne Marta Hoff [www.norgeskirker.no/wiki/Eidfjord_gamle_kyrkje] [accessed 18 May 2014]: baptismal font of soapstone consisting of an octagonal basin with plane tapering sides, raised on an octagonal baluster-shaped base and an octagonal two-step lower base; the side of the base has a shield [?] on one of the sides, on the 'bulge', with an emblem or letters [initials?] in it. Overall it has the appearance of a very crude work in the general baluster-shape font style of the period found in parish churches all over Denmark and Sweden. No cover present. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 1309 church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.461619, 7.071075
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 27′ 41.83″ N, 7° 4′ 15.87″ E
UTM: 32V 393922 6704376
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal