Berg / Berg nr. Halden
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design element - architectural - column - 4
Scene Description: they appear to be clustered and constructional
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Image Source: digital image of a 1 January 1874 drawing by Henrik Thrap-Meyer, in the kulturminnebilder.ra.no [URN:NBN:no-RAKV_arkiv_7638C8D077D44C8F] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BERG_KIRKE_-_an10071111154001.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - zigzag
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Image Source: digital image of a 1 January 1874 drawing by Henrik Thrap-Meyer, in the kulturminnebilder.ra.no [URN:NBN:no-RAKV_arkiv_7638C8D077D44C8F] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BERG_KIRKE_-_an10071111154001.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2015 by Bjoertvedt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halden_Berg_kirke_IMG_7423.JPG] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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view of font - elevation and plan
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Image Source: digital image of a 1 January 1874 drawing by Henrik Thrap-Meyer, in the kulturminnebilder.ra.no [URN:NBN:no-RAKV_arkiv_7638C8D077D44C8F] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BERG_KIRKE_-_an10071111154001.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22685BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Church Location: Lundestadveien 190, 1763 Halden, Norway -- Tel.: +47 69 17 95 30
Country Name: Norway
Location: Østfold, Østlandet
Directions to Site: Located off (N) local road 104, 2-3 km W of Halden, 2 km N of the Iddefjordoff, highway 21 and the border with Sweden
Ecclesiastic Region: Borg bispedømme [medieval: Oslo]
Historical Region: Berg herred
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, N side
Church Notes: medieval stone church; private; municipal property since 1859
Font Notes:
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Font noted in Norges Kirker [www.norgeskirker.no/wiki/Berg_kirke] [accessed 29 May 2020] after Kjellberg ([s.d.], pp. 13-14) as a mid-12th century soapstone; quadrangular basin on four constructional columns, all one block; geometric decoration of zig-zag motif and vertical grooves or flutes. The font resembles a stool on four legs; it now stands on a 1936 pedestal Described in much the same terms in the Kulturminne entry for this church [https://data.kulturminne.no/askeladden/lokalitet/83871] [accessed 29 May 2020].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.137765, 11.329672
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 8′ 15.95″ N, 11° 19′ 46.82″ E
UTM: 32V 633293 6557719
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone (Gotland?)
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Font Height (less Plinth): 51.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 48 x 50.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Kjellberg ([s.d.], pp. 13-14)
REFERENCES
Solhaug, Mona Bramer, Middelalderens døpefonter i Norge, Oslo: Unipub forlag -- Det historisk filosofiske fakultetet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001