Svenneby / Suæina

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: looking more like panels linked by the 'ironwork'

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8062.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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design element - motifs - beslagsornamentik

Scene Description: a/p description in the SHM's Mb [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8062.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: stylised folige motifs in all the spandrels except the one that bears the 'crowned M'

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930512F2] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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symbol?

Scene Description: while the rest of the spandrels on this font have a stylised foliage motif, this one has what appears to be a 'crowned M'

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930512F2] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bohuslän, Kville hd., Svenneby kyrka. Teckning av Ferdinand Boberg [...] 1923"

Image Source: digital image [NMA.0089526] of a 1923 drawing by Ferdinand Boberg, in Nordiska museet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bohuslän,_Kville_hd.,_Svenneby_kyrka._Teckning_av_Ferdinand_Boberg_-_Nordiska_museet_-_NMA.0089526.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2021]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8093.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - bell-cote

Scene Description: the bell-ringing ropes can be seen hanging towards the right, down the side of the rock face

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2008 by Armin Kübelbeck [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_03.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: the bell-cote is partially visible atop the rocks on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8114.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Svenneby gamla kyrka [...] Dopfat. Dopskål av koppar, enkel. Från slutet av 1700-talet."

Image Source: digital image [2651-126.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Hanna Eggertz-Hegardt, in the Kulturmiljöbild Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200010754.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2021]

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view of church interior - crucifix

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8052.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the baptismal font is visible here on the left [nort] side, by the chancel left pillar

Image Source: digital image [2651-84.TIF] of a 1908 B&W photograph by A. Bäckström, in the Kulturmiljöbild Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200010623.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2021]

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - painting

Scene Description: mid-18th century paintings by Christian von Schönfeldt and Jonas Ahlstedt

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8078.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - painting

Scene Description: mid-18th century paintings by Christian von Schönfeldt and Jonas Ahlstedt

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8076.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8041.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8058.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8086.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - statue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8054.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - statue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8060.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - statue - St. Olaf

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8049.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Svenneby gamla kyrka [...] Dopfunt"

Image Source: digital image [2651-125.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Hanna Eggertz-Hegardt, in the Kulturmiljöbild Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200010750.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: shown here with the added modern lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanum_Svenneby_gamla_kyrka_BBR_21400000549727_IMG_8064.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: as it was when photographed by Lennart Karlsson, of the SHM

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930512F2] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19619SVE

Church/Chapel: Svenneby Gamla Kyrka

Church Location: Svenneby Gamla Kyrka, Svenneby, 45070 Hamburgsund, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 0525 35004

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: The old church is located about 1 km S of Hamburgsund, in the municipality of Tanum -- the new church was built several km to the N

Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift

Historical Region: Kville härad

Font Location in Church: inside the old church, at E end

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Beslagsmästaren [SHM]

Cognate Fonts: Valbo Ryr, Erikstad, Bärfendal and Svenneby [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: old church built 12thC; bell-cote built on nearby rock; new church built 1915, but old one still in use for services, mainly in summer

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A baptismal font here is mentioned in Hallbäck (1961) as being of a small group of fonts made in Dalsland, the others at Bärfendal and Ödeborg. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930512F3] as a baptismal font made of soapstone ca 1200 by the "Beslagsmästaren". The irregular font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with what appears to be an imitation of medieval ironwork patterns all around, and a plain rounded underbowl; one of the spandrels of the basin arcade has a symbol that resembles a crowned M; short base consisting of a cylindrical stem and a splaying circular lower base; with these two pieces the font is too short, perhaps because it is missing the original stem proper, and is now raised on a modern lower base. The font is almost identical to the one at Bärfendal, in the same county. The SHM's Mb describes the motif as "beslagsornamentik", and the workshop (?) responsible for these fonts, "Beslagsmästaren". [NB: there was no additional lower base when the font was photographed by the SHM. No font cover present. [NB: the new church, Svenneby (Nya) Kyrka, located several kms to the north of the old one, was completed in 1915, and has a font of granite made in 1963 from the drawings of Erik Lundberg, who was responsible for the renovation of the church on that year].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.499714, 11.324139

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 29′ 58.97″ N, 11° 19′ 26.9″ E

UTM: 32V 635442 6486690

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone

Number of Pieces: 2

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm* / 59 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1961) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930512F3]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961