Kanna / Kånna

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph by Carl-Johan Ivarsson, in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/058347/images/58347_53999034] [accessed 15 May 2020]
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view of basin

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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by B. Borgström reproduced in Roosval (1917: fig. 98)
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view of basin

Scene Description: photographed in the SHM, where it had been acquired in 1907 -- the appalling state of the basin is clearly visible here
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Image Source: digital image [1863-032.TIF] of a 1943 B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kånna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200083725.jpg] [accessed 15 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - bell tower

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2010 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kånna_kyrka_ext6.jpg] [accessed 15 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2010 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kånna_kyrka_ext3.jpg] [accessed 15 May 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.foto, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 March 2014 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kånna_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 15 May 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - south view

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Image Source: digital image [1863-010.TIF] of a drawing in Erik Ferdinand Ihrfors' 'Smolandia sacra' (1938), in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kånna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200083659.jpg] [accessed 15 May 2020]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt av sandsten, 1200-tal"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn, in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/058347/images/58347_53999034] [accessed 15 May 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east

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information

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Image Source: digital image of an entry in Roosval (1917: 71)
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 22664KAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, base only
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: [originally from Kånna kyrka]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Notes: late-12thC [ca. 1174?] church; bellfry demolished 19thC and new one built; church damaged by fire 1947
Church Address: Kyrkvägen 3, 341 91 Ljungby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 372 170 54
Site Location: Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off local (S) road G597, E of highway E4, 6 km SSW of Ljungby and in its municipality, 40-50 km WSW of Växjö
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Sunnerbo härad
Additional Comments: disused font (in a museum) -- 'romanskt triumfkrucifix' inside the church is a copy; the original is at the SHM
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Roosval (1917) as the basin of a limestone font of the late-13ht century; at the SHM since 1907. The old basin in the museum is badly cracked all over and is held together by a metal cinch. There are two related(?) objects in the church at Kånna [cf. ImagesArea]: one is a cylindrical sone lying on the floor inside the church; it could be a base or an upturned basin; the other is a font now in use.

COORDINATES

UTM: 33V 432802 6293304
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.778806, 13.900306
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 46′ 43.7″ N, 13° 54′ 1.1″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 14.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 83 cm*
Basin Depth: 27 cm*
Basin Total Height: 56 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Roosval (1917: 71)

REFERENCES

  • Mehling, Franz N., Spain: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 71, fig. 98