Frandefors / Frändefors
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: ref.: 930710F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: ref.: 930710F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: a band of, all around
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Image Source: ref.: 930710F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
![Source caption: "Frändefors kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210331020_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Frändefors kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."
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Image Source: digital image [2673-2.TIF] of a 1909 B&W photograph by Sigfrid Gunnäs, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frändefors_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200011241.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2021]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2009 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frändefors_kyrka_ext2.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2012 by Carl-Johan Ivarsson [www.kyrkokartan.se/056504/images/] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2012 by Carl-Johan Ivarsson [www.kyrkokartan.se/056504/images/] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Frändefors kyrka. Dopfunt. Photo by Claes Claesson 1959"
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Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1959 B&W photograph by Claes Claesson, in Hallbäck's Medeltida dopfuntar på Dal (1959) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frändefors_kyrka_Baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2021]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Frändefors kyrka [...] Dopfunt av täljsten, 1200-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210331019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Frändefors kyrka [...] Dopfunt av täljsten, 1200-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [2673-28.TIF] of a 1909 B&W photograph by Sigfrid Gunnäs, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frändefors_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200011308.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2021]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: ref.: 930710F1] [accessed 11 January 2015]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carl-Johan Ivarsson, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2012 by Carl-Johan Ivarsson [www.kyrkokartan.se/056504/images/] [accessed 11 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 19655FRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Frändefors Kyrka
Church Location: Kyrkogatan 6 462 69 Frändefors, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 0521-400 14
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Dalsland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off E of local road O2126, just W the E45, in the municipality and 2-24 km N of Vänersborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Karlstads stift
Historical Region: Västra Götalands län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Dalslandsgruppen (SHM)
Cognate Fonts: nearby Bolstad, Dalskog, etc.
Church Notes: medieval brick (?) church re-built mid-17thC, demolished late-18thC; old site just east of the present church of ca. 1800
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1959) as a baptismal font made of soapstone in the 13th century; cracking and other damage has been repaired. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930710F1] [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 round the middle; on a a round pedestal base with a roll moulding on it, and a wider circular lower base; part of the "Dalslandsgruppen" fonts. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.496528, 12.278128
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 29′ 47.5″ N, 12° 16′ 41.26″ E
UTM: 33V 341373 6487206
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 1
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm* / 80 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1959) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930710F1]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar på Dal, Vänersborg: [Vänersborgs museum], 1959