Torslanda No. 1
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torslanda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av Thorbillus. Omkr. 1240-60. Efter rest."
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Image Source: digital image [627-51.TIF] of a 1956 B&W photograph by Thorbjörn Engblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torslanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200006916.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Torslanda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av Thorbillus. Omkr. 1240-60. Före rest."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210328009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torslanda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av Thorbillus. Omkr. 1240-60. Före rest."
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Image Source: digital image [627-50.TIF] of a 1956 B&W photograph by Thorbjörn Engblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torslanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200006913.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Torslanda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av Thorbillus. Omkr. 1240-60."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210328008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torslanda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av Thorbillus. Omkr. 1240-60."
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Image Source: digital image [627-45.TIF] of a 1917 B&W photograph by Henrik Cornell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torslanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200006897.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]
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human figure - male - bearded - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth
Scene Description: the second such head -- Green Man?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F3] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F3] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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human figure - male - bearded - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth
Scene Description: Green Man? -- one of two
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F3] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F3] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: stemming out of the mouths of two (?) human heads
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F3] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle
Scene Description: several large ones, all around the underbowl
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F3] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tor Svensson, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2007 by Tor Svensson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torslanda_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph, in Riksantikvarieämbetet http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000013109] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: the medieval retable has survived
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Göteborgs stadsmuseum, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Staffan Westergren [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000036701] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the old font in the poreground [east], right [south] side of the chancel](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150103035_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the old font in the poreground [east], right [south] side of the chancel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Staffan Westergren [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000036699] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Göteborgs stadsmuseum, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Staffan Westergren [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000036698] [accessed 3 January 2015]
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view of church interior - baptismal dish
![Source caption: "Torslanda kyrka [...] Dopfat av mässing."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210328007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torslanda kyrka [...] Dopfat av mässing."
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Image Source: digital image [627-44.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torslanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200006895.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19621TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Thorkillus Workshop [Hallbäck] / Thorkillusgruppen [SHM]
Church / Chapel Name: Torslanda Kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): [the Holy Trinity but without official dedication]
Church Notes: original church 12th-13thC; modified 18th and 19thC; restored 1898, 1956; renovated 2002
Church Address: Torslanda kyrkväg, 423 32 Torslanda, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 31 731 68 50
Site Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the Kongahällavägen, on the island of Hisingen, in the municipality of Torslanda
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Västra Hisings härad
Additional Comments: altered font? (the base appears to be a later replacement)
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1961) as the surviving basin of a baptismal font made of soapstone in the 13th century by master Thorkillus; it was raised on a new granite base in the 19th century; the author suggests similarities with the font in Björlanda. Roosval & Gardell (1944) report the font being painted in 1896. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F3] as a baptismal font made of soapstone ca. 1200, part of the 'Thorkillusgruppen'; the font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with a broad flat moulring at the upper rim, with a vine that stems from the mouth of two human heads at opposite ends of the basin; the surface of the underbowl chamfer is decorated with large encircled rosettes; there is a ring moulding at the bottom of the underbowl. The plain cylindrical base is a later replacement [cf. supra] [NB: it is also possible that theThorkillus workshop which produced these fonts provided only the basin part, and that bases were supplied locally]. No font cover present but the church uses a brass baptismal dish with the font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 664902 6401469
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.725042, 11.769056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 43′ 30.15″ N, 11° 46′ 8.6″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm**
Basin Total Height: 44 cm* / 43 cm**
Height of Base: 33 cm* [modern]
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1961) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F3]
REFERENCES
- Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961, p. 42ff