Blidsberg
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920526F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920526F4]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 3
Scene Description: with zig-zag patterns between them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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design element - patterns - zigzag - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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inscription
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt, sandsten, medeltida, utförd av Tormod, detalj, runinskrift."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2546-016.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152460.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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inscription
![[cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200620055_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920526F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920526F4]
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view of baptismal dish
Scene Description: with a partial view of the rim inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_dopfat.JPG] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkan från norr. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad 1875."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2546-001.tif] of a 27 June 1875 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152427.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nasko, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 August 2011 by Nasko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_03.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum
Scene Description: tympanum from the medieval church demolished in 1867
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2546-008.tif] of a 1965 B&W photograph by L. Hallberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152446.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![with the top of the font visble at the far [east] end, right [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200620049_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the top of the font visble at the far [east] end, right [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_interiör_1.JPG] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_interiör_2.JPG] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt, sandsten, medeltida, utförd av Tormod."
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Image Source: digital image [2546-015.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152458.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt, sandsten, medeltida, utförd av Tormod."
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Image Source: digital image [2546-017.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Gustaf Adolf Hellman, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152461.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: with the Runic inscription highlighted in the source
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2546-019.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Harald Faith-Ell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152463.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920526F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920526F4]
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view of font - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2546-018.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152462.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blidsbergs_kyrka_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 20 June 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22750BLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Blidsbergs kyrka
Church Patron Saints: St. Bertil?
Church Location: Fällestorpsvägen, 520 24 Blidsberg, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off road 46, 20-25 km NNE of Ulricehamn and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Redvägs härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tormod
Church Notes: 12thC church; demolished 1867 but a tympanum from it was retained; new church 1868-1869; restored 1939, 1996
Font Notes:
Click to view
Illustrated by Gustaf Ewald in 1926 [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017958937/1m16-a7498] [accessed 21 June 2020]. Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1966). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920526F4] as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200 by Tormod.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.926972, 13.492611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 55′ 37.1″ N, 13° 29′ 33.4″ E
UTM: 33V 410723 6421575
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 52 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920526F4] [NB: it gives the widest measurement of the basin as 75 cm]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: runes
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes and ImagesArea]
Inscription Location: carved on the upper rim surface
Inscription Text: "thormothr giarthi .. fi" [= Tormod gjorde]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes and ImagesArea]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966