Norra Solberga
Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: photograph taken after the old church was stripped of all the later additions and reduced to its original medieval structure
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2556-003.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norra_Solberga_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086409.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norra Solbergas bevarade medeltida kyrkobyggnad:"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pollex, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2013 by Pollex [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norra_Solberga_gamla_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 28 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - south view
![Source caption: "Kyrkan mot söder med klockstapeln och omgivning [...] 1894" -- photograph taken before the old church was stripped of all the later additions and reduced to its original medieval structure; the bell cote was moved to a Jönköping city park in 1903](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200628007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkan mot söder med klockstapeln och omgivning [...] 1894" -- photograph taken before the old church was stripped of all the later additions and reduced to its original medieval structure; the bell cote was moved to a Jönköping city park in 1903
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2556-010.TIF] of a 1894 B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norra_Solberga_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086420.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: south view of the two churches, cheek by jowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.foto, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2009 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norra_solberga_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the interior of the modern church; the unimpressive modern wooden font is visible in the northeast corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reine Axel Unnerbäck / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1972
Image Source: digital image [2555-003.TIF] of a 1972 B&W photograph by Reine Axel Unnerbäck, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norra_Solberga_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200086518.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.5
view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern limestone baptismal font of 1971 in use in the old church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/058732/images/58732_71878341] [accessed 28 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 22767SOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Norray Solberga [gamla] kyrka
Church Location: Norra Solberga Kyrka 1, 571 92 Nässjö, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 380 55 50 80 [the old and new churches stand side by side]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off (E) local road F959 [aka Stockholmsvägen], E of road 32, in the municipality and 15 km NE of Nässjö, NW of Eksjö, about 50 km E of Jönköping and the E4
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Historical Region: Södra Vedbo härad
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: the old church [gamla kyrka], reduced to its medieval size by demolishing all the later additions, survives and is in use next to the new church
Font Notes:
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Both the medieval church and the new one have modern fonts now; the old church has a batismal font of limestone made in 1971; the new church uses a wooden 1941 font made of oak. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the medieval church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.721389, 14.842778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 43′ 17″ N, 14° 50′ 34″ E
UTM: 33V 490635 6397703