Borgunda / Borgena / Borgnna
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design element - motifs - moulding or piping
Scene Description: forming the semicricle frame of the cushion-capital shape of the side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920507F5] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: the rope moulding frames the whole side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920507F5] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920507F5] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - zigzag - 2-strand
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920507F5] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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design element - patterns - reticular
Scene Description: all around the inscribed cross
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2875-027.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152640.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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symbol - cross - Greek
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920507F5] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle - rope
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2875-027.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152640.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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symbol - cross - Greek - with scrolls
Scene Description: thhe cross is surrounded with scrolls all around it
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920507F5] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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symbol - cross - Latin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920507F5] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: a sandstone relief from the original 12thC(?) churcfh, now mounted on the south wall of the south arm of the transept of the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walander94, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 October 2012 by Walander94 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgunda_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: a late-17thC artist's rendering
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a late-17thC drawing in Kungl. Biblioteket Peringskiöld, Johan, Monumenta Sveo-Gothorum. 9 : Monumenta per Westrogothiam, Scaniam, Hallandiam, Blekingiam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgunda_kyrka_-_Peringskiöld.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church was built in 1766-1767 after the old church had been destroyed two years earlier in a lightning strike. The tower was erected in 1890."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2010 by Nasko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgunda_kyrka_Västergötland_Sweden.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the font is partially visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200520022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2875-016.tif] of an undated photograph by Axel Forssén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152629.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: the font as it was in 1924: the medieval basin cemented onto a modern base
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Image Source: digital image [2875-026.tif] of a 1924 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152639.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: the font as it was at the time: the medieval basin cemented onto a modern base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2875-027.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152640.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: only the basin is medieval; the earlier cemented base was removed and replaced by a detached base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920507F5] [accessed 20 May 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22677BOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Borgunda kyrka
Church Location: Dalavägen, 541 93 Skövde, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 500 49 95 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the highway 16-46 crossroads, 4 km SW of Skultorp, 9-10 km SE of Skövde, 20-25 km NE of Falköping and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Gudhems härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Roglinusgruppen [SHM]
Church Notes: 12thC(?) church destroyed by lightining 1765; medieval materials used in the re-building thereafter; extended late-19thC; modified 1930s
Font Notes:
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The medieval font survived the destruction of this church in 1765. Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920507F5] as a "Roglinusgruppen" baptismal font made of sandstone in the mid-12th century. Only the square basin with tapering sides remains of the original font; the sides are shaped like those of a cushion capital, framed in rope or roll moulding/piping; three of the sides have a Greek cross in the centre; on the fourth side the cross is Latin; two of the crosses are surrounded by scroll motifs; one is inscribed in a rope-patterned circle; the fourth is in a blank bacground; the upper end of the four sides is also patterned: one has rope pattern; another has a vine; the other two have scrolls.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.293978, 13.799093
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 17′ 38.32″ N, 13° 47′ 56.74″ E
UTM: 33V 429600 6462068
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square