Bralanda / Brålanda
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F3] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - bell-cote
Scene Description: or tower
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2009 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brålanda_kyrka_ext5.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2009 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brålanda_kyrka_ext2.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church interior - looking northeast
Scene Description: the medieval font is partially visible at the back, by the pulpit stairs
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Image Source: digital image [2754-18.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Ragnar Eiserman, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brålanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200010865.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2021]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the font is visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150111024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side
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Image Source: photographed 7 September 2004 by Lars Bergström, in the Regionmuseum Västra Götaland [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000079357] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: photographed 7 September 2004 by Lars Bergström, in the Regionmuseum Västra Götaland [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000079362] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F3] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Regionmuseum Västra Götaland, 2004
Image Source: photographed 7 September 2004 by Lars Bergström, in the Regionmuseum Västra Götaland [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaSelectedByggnadFoto.raa?fotoId=21500000079360] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of font in context - east side
Scene Description: the font stands east of the pulpit behind
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Image Source: digital image [2754-21.TIF] of a 1914 B&W photograph by Sigfrid Gunnäs, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brålanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200010873.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19650BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Brålanda Kyrka
Church Location: Stommen 910, 464 64 Brålanda, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 521 302 35
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Dalsland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the E45, SSW of Mellerud, NNE of Vänersborg, in the latter's municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Karlstads stift
Historical Region: Sundals härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Dalslandsgruppen (SHM)
Cognate Fonts: the basin at nearby Bolstad, etc.
Church Notes: medieval church destroyed by fire; re-built 1583; expanded 17th, 19thC; restored twice in 20thC
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1959) as a baptismal font made of soapstone in the 13th century. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930710F3] [accessed 11 January 2015] as a baptismal font of ca. 1200, of the "Dalslandsgruppen" soapstone fonts; it consists of a tub-shaped basin raised on a round pedestal base decorated with a double moulding on the stem, a splaying lower end. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.568889, 12.38
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 34′ 8″ N, 12° 22′ 48″ E
UTM: 33V 347622 6495023
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 52 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm* / 59 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1959) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F3]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar på Dal, Vänersborg: [Vänersborgs museum], 1959