Hjartum / Hjärtum
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - vine - palmette
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Alf Nordström, in Riksantikvarieämbetet [http://www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000549671] [accessed 1 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph by Carina Carlsson in Kringla [http://www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000549671] [accessed 1 January 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: showing the exterior of the church and its belfy just before the major renovation of 1900-1901
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Image Source: digital image [2685-1.TIF] of a 1900 B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hjärtums_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200004405.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2021]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph by Carina Carlsson in Kringla [http://www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000549671] [accessed 1 January 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph by Carina Carlsson in Kringla [http://www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000549671] [accessed 1 January 2015]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Hjärtums kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sten."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210326003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hjärtums kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sten."
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view of font
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view of font in context
Scene Description: inside the church, by the pulpit
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 1918 by Ewald Uggla, in Riksantikvarieämbetet [http://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200004437] [accessed 1 January 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19609HJA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Hjärtums kyrka
Church Location: Hjärtumsvägen 18, 463 75 Hjärtum, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 520 65 50 21
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2039.1, W of highway E45, 8 km N of Lilla Edet, with which it makes up a municipality, 20 km SW of Trollhättan
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Västra Götalands län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church. in the SE corner
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: 13thC church; re-built many times; major renovation 1900-1901
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1961) as a baptismal font made of soapstone [cf. infra] in the 13th century [cf. infra]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930707F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century by a regional Västergötland workshop. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical vasin decorated with a palmette vine all around below the upper rim; raised on a round pedestal with splaying bottom, a roll moulding about 2/3 up the stem. No font cover present. [NB: Riksantikvarieämbetet Byggnadspresentation references not yet consulted: Wadell, Maj-Brit (1968): Hjärtum och Västerlanda. Sveriges kyrkor volym 122. (Arkiv)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.181558, 12.110183
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 10′ 53.61″ N, 12° 6′ 36.66″ E
UTM: 33V 330083 6452566
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 87.5 cm* / 88 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1961) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930707F1]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961