Dragsmark
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the mid-18thC font
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Image Source: digital image [2706-19.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Hanna Eggertz-Hegardt, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragsmarks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200003999.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: L-->R: painting, mid-18thC font and pulpit sounding board
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Image Source: digital image [2706-21.TIF] of a 1937 B&W photograph by Sven Gustafsson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragsmarks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200004001.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harri Blomberg, 2006
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 July 2006 by Harri Blomberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragsmarks_kyrka,_den_14_juli_2006,_bild_1.JPG] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harri Blomberg, 2006
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 July 2006 by Harri Blomberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragsmarks_kyrka,_den_14_juli_2006,_bild_4.JPG] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "A man sitting outside Dragsmark Church on the Swedish West Coast."
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Image Source: digital image [edited] of a 1880s albumen print by Carl Curman, in the Riksantikvarieämbetet; RAÄ [www.flickr.com/photos/swedish_heritage_board/3829667406/] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikimalte, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2014 by Wikimalte [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragsmarks_kyrka_interior.JPG] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: showing the mid-18thC font at the east end of the nave, centre aisle
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Image Source: digital image [2706-9.TIF] of a 1924 B&W photograph by Axel Forssén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragsmarks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200003989.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: showing the mid-18thC font at the east end of the nave, centre aisle
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Image Source: digital image [2706-11.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Hanna Eggertz-Hegardt, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragsmarks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200003991.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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design element - patterns - sawtooth
![fragment of the medieval font [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200510021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: fragment of the medieval font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image [2706-23.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragsmarks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200004003.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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view of base
Scene Description: fragment of the medieval font
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Image Source: digital image [2706-23.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragsmarks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200004003.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2020]
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view of base
Scene Description: fragment of the medieval font
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Sven Brandel in Roosval (1917: fig. 91)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 22653DRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, base only
Museum: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, inv. nr. 10731
Church / Chapel Name: [originally from Dragsmarks kyrka]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Notes: 13thC church of the Premonstratensian monastery; wooden church documented 1594; church destroyed by fire; new church built 1627; demolished 1754 with some of the materials used in the building of a new church open in 1756; tower added 1762; ruins of the earlier church visible until the 19thC;
Church Address: Drahsmark kyrka 101, Uddevalla V, 451 97 Uddevalla, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 522 50 64 50
Site Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located W of the E6, 15-20 km WSW of Uddevalla and in its municipality, about 50 km N of Göteborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Lane härad
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated by Märta Larsson in Roosval (1917) as the surviving base of a baptismal font of Norwegian type made of soapstone; the base has a short splaying stem, hollow ay the top, and a circular lower base decorated with saw-tooth pattern all around. The basin has been lost. The surviving base is located at the SHM, with inentory number 10731. The present font in this church is said to be of the time of the when it was built, ca. 1756.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 649764 6459644
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.252364, 11.552036
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 15′ 8.51″ N, 11° 33′ 7.33″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Drainage System: centre hole in base
Height of Base: 27 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 24 cm* [diameterof round fragment]
Notes on Measurements: * Roosval (1917: 67)
REFERENCES
- Mehling, Franz N., Spain: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 67, fig. 91