Vasterlanda / Västerlanda

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: photograph taken 15 November 2004 by Carina Carlsson [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000058639] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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design element - patterns - interlace - chain-link

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930707F2] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerlanda kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa," -- the 1919 photograph shows the basin without the base; it appears to have been taken in a storage space, the font perhaps disused at the time

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Image Source: digital image [2361-19.TIF] of a 1918 B&W photograph by Ewald Uggla, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerlanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200007016.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]

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view of church exterior - north view

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Image Source: photograph taken 15 November 2004 by Carina Carlsson [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000058633] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: photograph taken 15 November 2004 by Carina Carlsson [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000058634] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: photograph taken 15 November 2004 by Carina Carlsson [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000058636] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: photograph taken 15 November 2004 by Carina Carlsson [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000058637] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing clearly the two unmatched parts

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930707F2] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Västerlanda kyrka. Dopfunt"

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Image Source: digital image of a 1961 B&W photograph by Claes Claesson in Hallbäck's Medeltida dopfuntar i Halland (1969) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västerlanda_kyrka_Baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the north side of the chancel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Regionmuseum Västra Götaland, 2004

Image Source: photograph taken 15 November 2004 by Carina Carlsson [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000058639] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19623VAS
Church/Chapel: Västerlanda Kyrka
Church Location: Kyrkeby 270, Västerlanda 463 93, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 520 65 21 90
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located in Lilla Edet municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Inlands Torpe härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: original church 13thC; extended and renovated 17th, 18th, 19th and mid-20thC
Hallbäck (1961) as a work from Västergötland, with a carved ring-chain pattern 13 cm tall; the author remarks on the difference of colour between basin and base. and mentions damage present. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930707F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century by a Västergötland regional workshop, with a ring-chain pattern reminiscent of the Viking-age art, also with other counterparts in Västergötland but also in the Norwegian material, for which the SHM refers to Solhaug's Middelalderens döpefonter i Norge (2001). The font consists of two blocks of markedly distinct stone; the upper block is a roughly hemispherical basin with a receded upper rim, a broad band of interlace right below it, otherwise plain down to the rope moulding at the centre ring position; there is a short stem below the latter; the lower half is a round slightly splaying base of lighter and more porous stone. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.090556, 12.120056
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 5′ 26″ N, 12° 7′ 12.2″ E
UTM: 33V 330230 6442415

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): 62 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm* / 83 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1961) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930707F2]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961
Solhaug, Mona Bramer, Middelalderens døpefonter i Norge, Oslo: Unipub forlag -- Det historisk filosofiske fakultetet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001