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design element - motifs - circle - concentric

Scene Description: incised on the domed lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Hideko Bondesen [http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Sarpsborg_museum/Sarpsborg_museum802.htm] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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design element - patterns - interlace - figure of eight

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Hideko Bondesen [http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Sarpsborg_museum/Sarpsborg_museum802.htm] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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design element - patterns - sawtooth

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Hideko Bondesen [http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Sarpsborg_museum/Sarpsborg_museum802.htm] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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design element - patterns - zigzag

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Hideko Bondesen [http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Sarpsborg_museum/Sarpsborg_museum802.htm] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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design element - patterns - zigzag

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Hideko Bondesen [http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Sarpsborg_museum/Sarpsborg_museum802.htm] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2011 by Peppigue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idd_church_in_Halden_municipality..jpg] [accessed 20 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2008 by Trond Strandsberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idd_kirke_TRS.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: replica copy of the original font from Idd Kirke

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Hideko Bondesen [http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Sarpsborg_museum/Sarpsborg_museum802.htm] [accessed 19 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20235IDD

Church/Chapel: Idd Kirke

Church Location: Iddeveien 545, 1769 Halden, Norway -- Tel.: 69 17 95 30

Country Name: Norway

Location: Østfold, Østlandet

Directions to Site: Located off road 22, SSW of Tistedalen, SSE of Sarpsbord, in the municipality of, and 5 km E of Halden, just E of the Swedish border

Ecclesiastic Region: Borg bispedømme

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: replica copy of this font at the Sarpsborg Borgarsyssel Museum

Church Notes: original church ca.1100; damaged by quake 1904; restored 1922

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Reidar Kjellberg: Baptismal Fonts and dåpsskikk. Ms. Invl. 1899 and innberetn. by Domenico Erdmann 1920. (antiquarian archive. p. 36). Described in the Norges Kirker entry for Idd by Sigrid Marie Christie and Håkon Christie [www.norgeskirker.no/wiki/Idd_kirke] [accessed 20 December 2015], who quote the date given by Kjellberg. Baptismal font consisting of a bucket-shaped basin decorated with a band of saw-tooth below the rim, a broad interlace pattern of figure-8 all around, and a zig-zag band at the bottom; the short and narrow stem has a zig-zag band on it as well; circular domed lower base with incised concentric circles. [NB: desciption based on the replica copy at the Sarpsborg Borgarsyssel Museum].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.086262, 11.434761

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 5′ 10.54″ N, 11° 26′ 5.14″ E

UTM: 32V 639513 6552201

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soap-stone (local)

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 66.5 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Norges Kirker entry for Idd by Sigrid Marie Christie and Håkon Christie [www.norgeskirker.no/wiki/Idd_kirke] [accessed 20 December 2015]