Halta / Hålta

Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003

CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

Results: 7 records

design element - motifs - piping or ribbed - 4

Scene Description: one in each of the interstices of the quatrefoiled basin

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= 930513F5] [accessed 1 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hålta kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder." -- showing the church as it was in 1919; it would undergo a major renovation in 1951

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital image [2366-4.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Bernard Hegardt, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hålta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200004649.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

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://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hålta_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible on the right [south] side of the chancel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Svenska kyrkan, 2014

Image Source: photograph in Svenska Kyrkan [www.svenskakyrkan.se/default.aspx?id=648895] [accessed 1 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font in the foreground [east], left [south] side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Svenska kyrkan, 2014

Image Source: photograph in Svenska Kyrkan [www.svenskakyrkan.se/default.aspx?id=648895] [accessed 1 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing

view of font

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= 930513F5] [accessed 1 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font in context - east side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hålta kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sten. 1200-talets förra del."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital image [2366-77.TIF] of a 1960 B&W photograph by Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hålta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200004730.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

INFORMATION

FontID: 19610HAL
Church/Chapel: Hålta kyrka
Church Location: Hålta kyrkby, C, Kungälv, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off (N) road 168, in the municipality and about 12 km NW of Kungälv, 25-30 km NNW of Göteborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Nordre härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side
Century and Period: 13th century (late?) [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Dalslandsgruppen [SHM]
Church Notes: church originally 12th-13thC; major renovations and additions though 17th, 18th, and fully restored in 1951
Noted in Hallbäck (1961) as a font made in the late-13th cenury showing some similarities with Gotland fonts, the basin of soapstone and the stem and lower base of sandstone [cf. infra]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930513F5] as a baptismal font consisting of a quatrefoil-shaped basin of soapstone, on a round pedestal base made of two pieces of limestone, the upper one with a roll moulding atop; the basin has an added thinner volume in the concave spandrels of the quatrefoiled shape; the inner shape of the basin is exactly the opposite to the outer, that is, where the outer is convex, it is concave, and viceversa; dated to the second half of the 13th century and part of the 'Dalslandsgruppen'. It is probably a composite font, the basin local, the base likely a Gotland limestone export. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.895572, 11.827947
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 53′ 44.06″ N, 11° 49′ 40.61″ E
UTM: 32V 667614 6420589

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone [basin]; limestone [base]
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 68 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930513F5]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961