Bolstad
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design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4
Scene Description: at the corners; much damaged
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F2] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a thin one, all around [is it a rope moulding?]
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F2] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F2] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: all around the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F2] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Regionmuseum Västra Götaland, 2003
Image Source: photograph taken 1 October 2003 by Lars Bergström [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000074787] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dagjoh, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2012 by Dagjoh [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolstad2.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the font is located in the chancel, right [south] side, near the window](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150111017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is located in the chancel, right [south] side, near the window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dagjoh, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2012 by Dagjoh [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolstad3.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken by Barbro Thörn, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/056397/images/] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Bolstads kyrka [...] Dopfunt. Fot av sandsten, cuppa av täljsten. 1200-talet." -- notice the stem present in this 1929 photograph](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210330023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bolstads kyrka [...] Dopfunt. Fot av sandsten, cuppa av täljsten. 1200-talet." -- notice the stem present in this 1929 photograph
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Image Source: digital image [2755-32.TIF] of a 1929 B&W photograph by Bertil Waldén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200010727.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2021]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Bolstads kyrka [...] Dopfunt. Fot av sandsten, cuppa av täljsten. 1200-talet." -- notice the font lacking the stem in this photograph [the photograph itself is undated but Sigfrid Gunnäs, the photographer, and Bertil Waldén, who took the 1929 photograph of the font showing the stem, published their work "Kyrkor i Sundals härad. [Bolstad, Grinstad, Gestad, Timmervik, Erikstad, Frändefors, Brålanda och Sundals-Ryr, Dalsland.]" in Sveriges Kyrkor, in 1931.](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210330024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bolstads kyrka [...] Dopfunt. Fot av sandsten, cuppa av täljsten. 1200-talet." -- notice the font lacking the stem in this photograph [the photograph itself is undated but Sigfrid Gunnäs, the photographer, and Bertil Waldén, who took the 1929 photograph of the font showing the stem, published their work "Kyrkor i Sundals härad. [Bolstad, Grinstad, Gestad, Timmervik, Erikstad, Frändefors, Brålanda och Sundals-Ryr, Dalsland.]" in Sveriges Kyrkor, in 1931.
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Image Source: digital image [2755-35.TIF] of an undated [ca. 1930?] B&W photograph by Sigfrid Gunnäs, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200010732.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2021]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F2] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the medieval font stands at the east end of the bank of pews
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2755-20.TIF] of a 1929 B&W photograph by Bertil Waldén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolstads_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200010708.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19649BOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Bolstads Kyrka [formerly Sankt Lars kyrka]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Bolstads kyrkby, 464 66 Mellerud Ö, Dalsland, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 0530-36221
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Dalsland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2159, in the municipality and 15-20 km S of Mellerud, 40 km N of Vänersborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Karlstads stift
Historical Region: Sundals härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, S side
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Dalslandsgruppen (SHM) [basin only]
Cognate Fonts: basin of the font at Brålanda, Dalskog, etc
Church Notes: church tower of 1150; church re-built 1756-1761;
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1959) as a baptismal font consisting of a tub-shaped basin of soapstone raised on a round-to-square base made of red-grey sandstone; the drain goes right through both blocks; the base block is damaged. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930710F2] [accessed 11 January 2015] as a baptismal font of ca. 1200, consisting of a soapstone tub-shaped basin decorated with a band of saw-tooth at the upper rim, and a thin moulding [rope moulding?] 2/3 down the side; raised on a sandstone round-to-square base decorated with a roll moulding at the top, and four (?) spurs or leaves at the lower corners; the SHM names the basin as part of the "Dalslandsgruppen" fonts, and adds that the present font is a composite of two different fonts. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.575833, 12.483611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 34′ 33″ N, 12° 29′ 1″ E
UTM: 33V 353675 6495565
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone [basin only] -- sandstone [base only]
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 62 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm* / 66 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1949) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F2]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar på Dal, Vänersborg: [Vänersborgs museum], 1959