Sodra Vanga / Södra Vånga

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkoruinen från sydväst. Efter konservering." [NB: the restoration of the ruins was done in the 1930s]

Image Source: digital image [10009-024.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Erik B. Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Möne,_Södra_Vånga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200168332.jpg] [accessed 1 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Möne, Södra Vånga kyrkoruin [...] Kyrkoruinens östgavel, sedd från väster."

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://picryl.com/media/mone-sodra-vanga-kyrkoruin-7d3705] [accessed 1 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Möne, Södra Vånga kyrkoruin [...] Del av kyrkoruinen. Foto efter teckning ur Djurklou: Elfsborgs län, 1868."

Image Source: digital image [10009-006.tif] of a 1868 drawing by Djurklou, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Möne,_Södra_Vånga_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200168308.jpg] [accessed 1 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkoruin [Södra Vånga kyrkoruin och klockstapel?]"

Image Source: digital image [VMRG01658] of an undated B&W photograph by Runo Grolander, in the VM Foto collection, Vänersborgs museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021015654086/kyrkoruin-sodra-vanga-kyrkoruin-och-klockstapel] [accessed 1 July 2020]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Södra Vånga kyrkoruin och klockstapel."

Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145046:3336] of a 1927 B&W photograph by Gustaf Ewald, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017202057/sodra-vanga-kyrkoruin-och-klockstapel] [accessed 1 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: Public domain mark (CC pdm)

view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1976 photograph by AB Flygtrafik, in the Vänersborgs museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021015612431/vanga-kyrkoruin] [accessed 1 July 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22776VAN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Södra Vånga kyrkoruin

Church Location: Södra Vånga kyrkoruin, 520 24 Blidsberg, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: The ruins site is located S of Södra Vånga, N of Backabo, W of Bosarp, just NW of Möne, W of road 46, N of the 182, 20 km N of Ulricehamn and in its municipality

Ecclesiastic Region: [Skara stift]

Historical Region: Ås härad / Elfsborgs län

Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval

Church Notes: medieval [13thC?] church said to have been in use until 1866, when its furnishings were auctioned off and the church abandoned; the ruins were restored in the 1930s [source: http://wadbring.com/historia/undersidor/vanga.htm] [accessed 1 July 2020]

Font Notes: Click to view

An entry for Möne kyrka in the Riksantikvarieämbetet's KRINGLA [www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/anlaggning/visaHelaBeskrivningen.raa;jsessionid=83473971BF1893863DC4E0203A9B99BB?anlaggningId=21300000003224&anlaggningBeskrivningId=21120000159430&visaBeskrivningar=true] [accessed 2 July 2020] refers to a sandstone baptismal font from the 13th century from the Södra Vånga church with figures, and another baptismal font richly decorated with, among other things, arches, saints, a bird, etc., located outside the church doorway [="Två romanska halvkolonner med veckkapitäl överfördes från den gamla kyrkan. 1918 hade kyrkan ett gråmålat träaltare, svepkors och halvkolonnerna på var sida."] [NB: we have no other information on the font of the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.9377, 13.3621