Gara / Gaara / Gåra
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Scene Description: the post-Reformation font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mona Bramer Solhaug, 2001
Image Source: digital scan of a photograph taken by M.B. Solhaug, in Solhaug (2001, vol. 1, 327, fig. 75)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21504GAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Post-Reformation
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Gåra kyrkje [demolished 1850] [originally in Gvålekyrkja?]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: church thought to be originally Gvålekyrkja; documented 1398; seems to have had a close relationship [chapel of ease? vicecersa?] with the nearby church at Bø; demolished 1850
Church Address: Valenvegen 226, 3800 Gåra, Telemark, Norway [NB: the church was probably near the Gåravegen-Valenvegen crossroads, off (N) road 36, NE of Bø i Telemark, SW of Notodden]
Site Location: Telemark, Norway, Europe
Directions to Site: [The disappeared church was probably off (N) road 36, NE of Bø i Telemark, SW of Notodden]
Ecclesiastic Region: Agder og Telemark bispedømme
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca. 1398 church here) -- the present font was photographed by Mona B. Solhaug [where???]
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Dahl (1837). Noted and illustrated in Solhaug (2000). Baptismal font made of wood, and part of a group of such post-Reformation fonts in this area (Atrå, Bø, Gåra, etc.); round and probably monolithic, with both ends tapering in towards the centre-ring moulding, the sides patterned with fluting or concave ribbing. Mid-dome cover with turned finial.
REFERENCES
- Dahl, J.C.C., Denkmale einer sehr ausgebildeten Holzbaukunst aus den frühsten Jahrhunderten in den innern Landschaften Norwegens., Dresden: [s.n.], 1836-1837
- Solhaug, Mona Bramer, Middelalderens døpefonter i Norge, Oslo: Unipub forlag -- Det historisk filosofiske fakultetet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001, vol. 1: 326, fig. 73