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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohuslen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2011 by Bohuslen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bø_gamle_kirke,_med_kirkegården.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: the blocked south portal; the only entrance into the church is now from the west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohuslen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2011 by Bohuslen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bø_gamle_kirke,_gjenmurt_inngang.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohuslen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2011 by Bohuslen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bø_gamle_kirke,_Bø_kommune,_Telemark.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the font is visible at the far [east] end, left [north] side of the chancel](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170915036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is visible at the far [east] end, left [north] side of the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirkesøk.no, 2017
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirkesøk.no, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirkesøk.no [www.kirkesok.no/kirker/Boe-gamle-kyrkje-Boe-i-Telemark] [accessed 15 September 2017]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a lithograph of a drawing by F.W. Schiertz, in Dahl (1837)
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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. 74)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21505BOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Bø gamle kyrkje
Church Location: 3800 Bø i Telemark, Norway
Country Name: Norway
Location: Telemark
Directions to Site: Located off road 36-359 crossroads, S of Folkestad, N of Lunde
Ecclesiastic Region: Agder og Telemark bispedømme
Historical Region: Midt-Telemark
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: old church originally ca. 1100, but present remains ca. 1170-1180 ; expanded 17thC and 19thC -- new church built 1875
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Dahl (1837). Noted and illustrated in Solhaug (2000). Baptismal font made of wood, painted. 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 rope-moulding at the centre-ring position, the sides patterned with fluting or concave ribbing. Conical cover, also of painted wood, with turned finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.4110, 9.0563
UTM: 32V 501779 6590966
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood, pine?
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: post-Reformation
Material: wood, pine?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]