Mellby nr. Lidköping
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.:920518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920518F4#] [accessed 3 July 2020]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.:920518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920518F4#] [accessed 3 July 2020]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström (Ulkl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mellby_kyrka_ext1.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2020]
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![[NB: at this time the font has been set up with the double-moulding piece right below the stem, near the lower base]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200703026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: at this time the font has been set up with the double-moulding piece right below the stem, near the lower base]
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Image Source: digital image [2722-012.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mellby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200162508.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2020]
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Scene Description: [NB: at this time the font has been set up with the double-moulding piece right below the stem, near the lower base]
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Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145111 293] of an undated photograph by Ernst Fischer, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017209276/mellby-dopfunt] [accessed 3 July 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.:920518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920518F4#] [accessed 3 July 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22779MEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Mellby kyrka
Church Location: Mellby kyrby, 531 96 Lidköping, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2636, S of road 44, in the municipality and 10-12 km WSW of Lidköping. The site of the medieval church was about 200 yards NE of the present one.
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Kållands härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Church Notes: medieval church demolished 1879 with some material re-used in the new church; present church 1880; restored 1956-1958, again 1999-2000
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1971). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920518F4] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the early-13th century by a regional workshop. The font consists actually of four blocks: a cylindrical basin plain except for a moulding at the bottom of the underbowl; a stem that consists of two blocks, one cylindrical and plain, and a second, much shorter, decorated with a toru-scotia-torus combination; the fourth block, cylindrical and plain, is the lower base. NB: the arrangement of the two middle blocks has changed through times; in the earlier photographs the double-moulding appears at the bottom of the stem but in the later ones it has been moved to right below the basin underbowl.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.455556, 13.028397
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 27′ 20″ N, 13° 1′ 42.23″ E
UTM: 33V 384954 6481118
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 4
Diameter (includes rim): 71 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm*
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; p. 307