Flo / Floo
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dagjoh, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2010 by Dagjoh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flo1.JPG] [accessed 1 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digiital image [2795-007.tif] of a late-17thC drawing in Peringskiöld's Monumenta, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200154694.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
![view of the church after its re-building of 1746 -- Source caption: "Laverad tuschteckning av Flo (gamla) kyrka, utan datering. Bilden visas i svartvitt på grund av svåra missfärgningar i pappret. Källa: Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara: MS Geografi Västergötland 1, bild 49. [...] 1830s [...] Johan Gustaf Thun"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200601005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: view of the church after its re-building of 1746 -- Source caption: "Laverad tuschteckning av Flo (gamla) kyrka, utan datering. Bilden visas i svartvitt på grund av svåra missfärgningar i pappret. Källa: Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara: MS Geografi Västergötland 1, bild 49. [...] 1830s [...] Johan Gustaf Thun"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Skara Kommun, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Skara Kommun of an 1830s drawing in Johan Gustaf Thun's MS Geografi Västergötland 1, bild 49, in the Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flo_kyrka,_Johan_Gustaf_Thun.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the church had been re-built in 1890; notice the medieval baptismal font in its southeast corner location
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Image Source: digital image [2795-012.tif] of a 1937 B&W photograph by C.O. Svensson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200154703.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: in its location at the southeast corner of the nave of the re-built church -- the base appears modern -- Source caption: "Dopfunt, sandsten. I bakgrunden delar av äldre predikstolskorg."
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [2795-016.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by C.O. Svensson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200154713.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: the stem and base are modern replacements
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920522F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920522F2] [accessed 1 June 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern stem and base replacements were already in place at this time (1931)
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Image Source: digital image [1M16-A374] of a 1931 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the VGM Foto collections of the Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021018251255/1m16-a374] [accessed 1 June 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22691FLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Flo kyrka
Church Location: Flo kirkby, 467 96 Grästorp, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 514 585 60
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located N highway 44, in the municipality of Grästorp and 6-7 km W of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Åse härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SE corner of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: original church ca. 1200; re-built 1746; destroyed 19thC and replaced on the same foundations by present church in 1890,
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1971). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920522F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the first half of the 13th century by a regional hand. To judge by the photograph provided only the basin block is original, the stem and base being modern replacements. This replacement base appears already on a 1931 B&W photograph of this font by Sanfrid Welin [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021018251255/1m16-a374] [accessed 1 June 2020]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.335236, 12.567972
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 20′ 6.85″ N, 12° 34′ 4.7″ E
UTM: 33V 357610 6468607
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; p. 266