Harestad / Harestad
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view of font
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Image Source: photographed by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930709F2] [accessed 1 January 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohusläns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Tomas Brandt [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443038&extern=platsr] [accessed 21 June 2014]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: photographed by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930709F2] [accessed 1 January 2015]
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symbol - cross - Latin - 4
Scene Description: one on each side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohusläns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Tomas Brandt [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443038&extern=platsr] [accessed 21 June 2014]
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view of basin
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Image Source: illustration in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tor Svensson, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2007 by Tor Svensson [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harestads_kyrka#mediaviewer/Fil:Harestads_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Netherlandish retable of ca.1400 with Stabbat Mater in the centre, John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene on the sides
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph 1853-1854, Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443038&extern=platsr] [accessed 21 June 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the top of the old font is visible in the foreground [east], left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140621018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the old font is visible in the foreground [east], left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohusläns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Tomas Brandt [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443038&extern=platsr] [accessed 21 June 2014]
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view of church interior - chancel
Scene Description: Netherlandish retable of ca.1400: Stabbat Mater in the centre, John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene on the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohusläns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Tomas Brandt [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443038&extern=platsr] [accessed 21 June 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohusläns museum, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Tomas Brandt [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443038&extern=platsr] [accessed 21 June 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19287HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sven-Torbjörngruppen / Sven-Torbjörnsgruppen [SHM]
Church / Chapel Name: Harestads Kyrka [originally from the demolished medieval church]
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, in the presbitery, S side
Church Notes: original 12thC church demolished in 1853; replacement church of 1854;
Site Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Kungälv, near Lycke, Marstrand and Torsby
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Inlands södra härad
Additional Comments: altered font? (later wooden base) / moved font? (originally from the old demolished church)
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878) [the measurements shown in the drawing are calculated at 29.69 the Swedish foot]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930709F2] as the basin of a baptismal made of soapstone in the mid-12th century, in the "Sven-Torbjörngruppen". The bapismal font here consists of a tapering square basin made of soapstone, said to date to the 12th century; a large Latin cross on each side; raised on a later wooden base. It belonged to the medieval church demolished in 1853.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 668557 6411917
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.817417, 11.8377
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 49′ 2.7″ N, 11° 50′ 15.72″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Basin Total Height: 50.473 cm* / 47 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 62.349 x 62.349 cm* / 61 x 61 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Montelius & Brusewitz (1878) [NB: calculated at 29.69 cm per Swedish foot] / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930709F2]
REFERENCES
- Montelius, Oscar, Bohuslänska dopfuntar, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1878, p. 5 and fig. 1