Gara / Gaara / Gåra

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Image Source: digital image of a lithograph of a drawing by F.W. Schiertz, in Dahl (1837)

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Scene Description: the post-Reformation font

Image Source: digital scan of a photograph taken by M.B. Solhaug, in Solhaug (2001, vol. 1, 327, fig. 75)

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FontID: 21504GAR

Church/Chapel: Gåra kyrkje [demolished 1850] [originally in Gvålekyrkja?]

Church Location: 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]

Country Name: Norway

Location: Telemark

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

Century and Period: , Post-Reformation

Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font

Cognate Fonts: [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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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