Satuna / Saetuna / Sætuner / Sätuna

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [Ref.: 950512F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F3#] [accessed 12 March 2020]
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view of basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [Ref.: 950512F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950512F3#] [accessed 12 March 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the medieval church was demolished in the 1820s and never re-built
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Image Source: digital image [9928-001.tif] of a drawing in Johan Peringskiöld's Monumenta (1710s), in the Kulturmiljöbild: 16000200168086 [http://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200168086] [accessed 6 May 2020]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 22595SAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Museum and Inventory Number: Statens historiska museum, Stockholm
Church/Chapel: Sätuna kyrka [demolished]
Church Location: Sätuna, Falköping N, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: The site of the old demolished church is located off local road O2682, E of the 184, 2-3 km SW of Broddetorp, on the SE shore of the Hornborgasjön, in the municipality and N of Falköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Gudhems härad
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: old medieval church reported still standing in the 1810s but was demolished in the 1820s
Font Notes:
Noted in Hallbäck (19710). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [Föremåls-ID 950512F3] as the basin of a baptismal made of sandstone by a regional workshop ca. 1200. Only the basin remains of the medieval baptismal font of sandstone, originally from the church of Sätuna that was demolished in the 1820s; the basin is roughly cylindrical and has a rope moulding below the upper rim as only decoration; the base is missing.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.283828, 13.570547
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 17′ 1.78″ N, 13° 34′ 13.97″ E
UTM: 33V 416180 6461200

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 68 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [Ref.: 950512F3]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; s 335