Hobol / Haabøl / Hobøl
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: the baptismal dish in use
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hobøl_pkirke20120707-24.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2016]
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view of basin - upper view - detail
Scene Description: the baptismal dish in use
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hobøl_pkirke20120707-23.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2016]
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view of canopy
Scene Description: Inscribed: "Gud og Kirken helliget Anno 1739" -- was it originally intended as a pulpit sounding-board?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hobøl_pkirke20120707-25.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hobøl_pkirke20120707-01.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the photograph, taken from the upper gallery, shows the canopy, the statue and the font by the left [north] side of the chancel arch](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161231020_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the photograph, taken from the upper gallery, shows the canopy, the statue and the font by the left [north] side of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hobøl_pkirke20120707-04.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hobøl_pkirke20120707-03.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hobøl_pkirke20120707-06.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: the obviously ill-matched grouping; only the basin is original
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hobøl_pkirke20120707-22.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2016]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font is a composite of two unrelated parts; the statue is a copy of Bertel Thorvaldsens' 1871 Christ in Vor Frue kirke, Copenhagen; the canopy looks like a sounding-board
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans A. Rosbach, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hobøl_pkirke20120707-21.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20814HOB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Hobøl Kirke
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: 1827 Hobøl, Norway -- Tel.: +47 69 92 16 40
Country Name: Norway
Location: Østfold, Østlandet
Directions to Site: Located 40 km SE of Oslo
Ecclesiastic Region: Borg bispedømme
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: original church late-12thC
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a basin made of granite of roughly hemispherical shape, raised on an unmatched pedestal base made of soapstone. The canopy over the font resembles a pulpit sounding-board, and bears the inscription: "Gud og Kirken helliget Anno 1739"; the Christ statue by the font is a copy of Bertel Thorvaldsens' 1871 Christ in Vor Frue kirke, Copenhagen.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.600751, 10.923904
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 36′ 2.71″ N, 10° 55′ 26.05″ E
UTM: 32V 608591 6608522
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (basin only)
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round