Alunda
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design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundadopfunt02.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: a plain one at the bottom of the underbowl, above the broad centre ring of the base
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundadopfunt02.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - patterned - braid - 3-strand
Scene Description: all around the broad centre ring moulding
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundadopfunt02.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - tracery - Gothic
Scene Description: two different ones seen here on the left and centre panels
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundadopfunt02.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: forming circles all around
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundadopfunt02.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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design element - motifs - vine - grapevine - bearing fruit
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundadopfunt01.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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design element - patterns - interlace
Scene Description: described elsewhere in the SHM database as "yttäckande ringkedjemönster", akin to chainmail and some of the Celtic patterns found in some Irish monuments
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Image Source: digital image [3888-055.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1904 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200112097.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "vinranka"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940725F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940725F2#] [accessed 4 November 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "yttäckande ringkedjemönster"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940725F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940725F2#] [accessed 4 November 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "rosettmönster"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940725F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940725F2#] [accessed 4 November 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: the church probably as it looked before the 19thC restoration -- Source caption: "Foto av teckning. Rhezelius, K. B."
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Image Source: digital image [3888-008.TIF] of a drawing in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200112006.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundakyrka1801.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © hanzbe, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph takn 25 May 2008 by hanzbe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alunda_Kyrka_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: the font is partially visible to the right of the altar
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Image Source: digital image [3888-024.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200112049.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font is discernible in the southeast corner, to the right of the altar
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundakyrkorum01.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundakyrkorum02.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image [3888-054.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1904 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200112096.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundadopfunt01.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alundadopfunt02.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940725F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940725F2#] [accessed 4 November 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940725F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940725F2#] [accessed 4 November 2020]
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital image [3888-053.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1909 by Oscar Algren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200112095.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Folkskollärare Hugo Fredriksson visar dopfunten i Alunda kyrka för elever. Eleven längst till vänster troligen Malte Mårtensson. Bilden ingår i "Olands kommuns bildarkiv" inköpt 1999 från fotograf Bo Larsson, Alunda."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Upplandsmuseet, 2020
Image Source: digital image [OLA0123] of a B&W photograph taken by Carl Johansson, in the Upplandsmuseet [https://digitaltmuseum.se/011013991308/folkskollarare-hugo-fredriksson-visar-dopfunten-i-alunda-kyrka-for-elever] [accessed 28 March 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22598ALU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Alunda kyrka
Church Location: Prästgårdsvägen 18, 747 30 Alunda, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 174 153 51
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Uppland, Uppsala län
Directions to Site: Located off road 288, in the municipality of Östhammar, about 50 km NE of Uppsala
Ecclesiastic Region: Uppsala Stift
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Nodgruppen [Reutersvärd & SHM]
Cognate Fonts: the font at Fröslunda, etc.
Church Notes: 13thC church; much damaged in fires 16th, 18th and 19thC; restored 19th and 20thC
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Reutersvärd's Uppsvenska nodfuntar Ars Suetica 7 (1983): 359ff, as a "nodgruppen" baptismal font made of limestone in the 15th century. Ditto in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940725F2]. Baptismal font consisting of a decagonal basin with rounded lower sides and underbowl, raised on a round pedestal base; the sides of the basin are decorated with vines and roundels inscribing varied patterns; there is a plain roll moulding at the bottom of the underbowl; the broad centre ring atop the base is decorated with a 3-strand braid, and the sides of the lower base are decorated with a vine forming circles. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.06, 18.090278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 3′ 36″ N, 18° 5′ 25″ E
UTM: 34V 338031 6661658
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: decagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: decagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 118 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940725F2]