Vanaja / Vånå

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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: the new bell tower of 1895 is partially seen in the background
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2008 by Edwin-Marian [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vanajan_kirkko_vuodesta_1490_-_Vanaja,_kościółek_z_1490_roku_-_Vanaja,_chappell_since_1490_-_Ваная,_чапелл_с_1490_года_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 23 August 2017]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: illustration in Leopold Henrik Stanislaus Mechelin's "Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors. Illustrated by Finnish artists." (Helsingfords: F. Tilgmann, 1894) [British Library HMNTS 10290.i.4] -- showing the old [17thC?] bell tower across the road from the church
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Image Source: digital image of a by Albert Edelfelt in 'Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors. Illustrated by Finnish artists' (ed. L. Mechelin, 1894, p. 107)
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view of church interior - altar and retable
INFORMATION
FontID: 21431VAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Vanajan kirkko / Vånå kyrka
Church Location: Hautausmaantie, Vanaja, 13110 Hämeenlinna, Finland -- Tel.: +358 040 8049452
Country Name: Finland
Location: Häme, Hämeen lääni / Tavastehus län
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SE of Hämeenlinna, between Tampere (NNW) and Helsinki (SSE)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Tampere
Date: ca. 1324?
Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Medieval
Church Notes: original wooden church 1324?; present church ca.1500?
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.978889, 24.503333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 58′ 44″ N, 24° 30′ 12″ E
UTM: 35V 364899 6763010