Vika
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage - in a circle
Scene Description: all different, on the sides of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930615F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: vine-like
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930615F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - groove - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930615F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding - braided
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930615F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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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.: 930615F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930615F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: probably early-20thC; showing the detached bell tower on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [1256-5.TIF] in Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - bell tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Calle Eklund/V-wolf, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2007 by Calle Eklund/V-wolf [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vika_klocktorn.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: with the detached bell tower just west of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © gjarzina, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2014 by gjarzina, in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/057438/images/] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Calle Eklund/V-wolf, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2007 by Calle Eklund/V-wolf [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vika_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: 15thC?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Calle Eklund/V-wolf, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2012 by Calle Eklund/V-wolf [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vika_kyrka_121118_09.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church interior - painting - detail
Scene Description: in the chancel, north side, above the sacristy door
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Calle Eklund/V-wolf, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2012 by Calle Eklund/V-wolf [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vika_kyrka_121118_08.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church interior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Calle Eklund/V-wolf, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2012 by Calle Eklund/V-wolf [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vika_kyrka_121118_05a.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of font
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Calle Eklund/V-wolf, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2012 by Calle Eklund/V-wolf [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vika_kyrka_121118_02.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in a chapel on the north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bertil Mattsson, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Bertil Mattsson, in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/057438/images/] [accessed 11 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 19648VIK
Church/Chapel: Vika Kyrka
Church Location: Vikavägen 128, 791 95 Falun, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 023-70 20 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Dalarna, Dalarnas län
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road 69, across from Falun, and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Västerås stift
Historical Region: Vika härad / Dalarnas län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel of the N side of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Nodgruppen (SHM)
Cognate Fonts: Hedemora, Stora Kopparberg, etc.
Church Notes: original church here probably 12thC; present stone church consecrated 1469, but parts are older
Noted in Roosval (1918). Noted in O. Reutersvärd's Uppsvenska nodfuntar Ars Suetica 7 (1983: 363). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930615F1] [accessed 11 January 2015], as a 15th century baptismal font of the "nodgruppen" made of limestone. Dodecagonal (?) basin with a series of encircled rosettes framed in a running vine below; underbowl decorated with floral or foliage motifs; roll moulding at the bottom of the underbowl; splaying round base, the stem conical and with a thick braided moulding atop; the upper surface of the lower base is decorated with a vine. The font has been raised on a wide three-step plinth and located in a chapel of the north side. No cover present [NB: the entry for this church in http://boka.visitsodradalarna.se [accessed 11 January 2015] notes: "Dopfunten från 1500-talet är en kopia av den dopfunt som finns i Storkyrkan i Stockholm." [=the 15th-century baptismal font is a copy of the one in Storkyrkan, Stockholm]].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
60.513333,
15.713611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
60° 30′ 48″ N,
15° 42′ 49″ E
UTM: 33V 539185 6708795
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930615F1]
REFERENCES
Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918