Berga / Berga nr. Mariestad / Barga / Bärga
Image copyright © Inga Kajsa Christensson / Västergötlands museum, 2020
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Results: 7 records
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.O.G.A., 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by D.O.G.A. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berga_kyrka,_Västergötland8.JPG] [accessed 28 May 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: seen here in the centre ca. 1700
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3159-004.tif] of a late-17thC drawing in Peringskiöld's Monumenta [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200151832.jpg] [accessed 28 May 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior - southeast view
![the church at Berg [aka Bärga] as seen in a late-17thC source; by this time [ca. 1700] the medieval church had already undergone some modifications, but it would further modified in the 18thC to the general shape of today's building](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200528001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the church at Berg [aka Bärga] as seen in a late-17thC source; by this time [ca. 1700] the medieval church had already undergone some modifications, but it would further modified in the 18thC to the general shape of today's building
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph [2018?] of a ca. 1700 drawing in Johan Peringskiöld's Monumenta Sveo-Gothorum. 9 : Monumenta per Westrogothiam, Scaniam, Hallandiam, Blekingiam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berga_kyrka,_Västergötland_-_Peringskiöld.jpg] [accessed 28 May 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD Old / PD-1996
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.O.G.A., 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by D.O.G.A. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berga_kyrka,_Västergötland2.JPG] [accessed 28 May 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - sculpture
Scene Description: Source caption: "Träskulptur, madonna, lövträ, sittande, i profil, 1200-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3159-024.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Henrik Hultgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200151883.jpg] [accessed 28 May 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font
Scene Description: the modern, mid-18thC font in use at the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inga Kajsa Christensson / Västergötlands museum, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Inga Kajsa Christensson, Västergötlands museum [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443514] [accessed 28 May 2020]
Copyright Instructions: No known copright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font in context
![the medieval font -- location unknown [museum? cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200528005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the medieval font -- location unknown [museum? cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1M16-A8607] of a B&W photograph taken in 1932 by Sanfrid Welin, in the Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021018254013/1m16-a8607] [accessed 28 May 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD / pdm 1.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 22681BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Västergötlands museum?
Church/Chapel: Berga kyrka
Church Location: Bergavägen 21, 542 72 Mariestad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 501 500 02
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2979, N of highway E20/26, 6-7 km NE of Mariestad
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Font Location in Church: [in a museum?]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: original church 12th-13thC; modified 17th-18thC
Font Notes:
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No entry found for this church or font in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld. There is an image [1M16-A8607] of a B&W photograph taken in 1932 by Sanfrid Welin, in the Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021018254013/1m16-a8607] [accessed 28 May 2020]. The font, which may be at the Västergötlands museum, consists of a rougly cylindrical basin that appears plain and badly damaged, raised on a circular base, also plain. There is a later font of red limestone in use in the church; it dates from 1761.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.738, 13.911611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 44′ 16.8″ N, 13° 54′ 41.8″ E
UTM: 33V 436997 6511390