Horred
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 15 - columns
Scene Description: Stylised arcade; the columns are thin unadorned pipes and the capitals are circles with an inscribed bead or dot; the bottom of the arch is the lower part of the plant or Tree of Life.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F4#] [accessed 7 July 2020]
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design element - motifs - bead - 15
Scene Description: with a centre hole in each -- notice how the plants or trees are all different
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F4#] [accessed 7 July 2020]
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design element - motifs - groove
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F4#] [accessed 7 July 2020]
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design element or symbol - plant or tree - Tree of Life? - 15
Scene Description: each one is different from the other fourteen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F4#] [accessed 7 July 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kemitsv, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2011 by Kemitsv [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horreds_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the font is located at the far [east] end, on the right [south] side, but only the very top of the upper rim can be discerned in this photograph](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200707029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is located at the far [east] end, on the right [south] side, but only the very top of the upper rim can be discerned in this photograph
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © AB Flygtrafik / Vänersborgs museum, 2014
Image Source: digital image [VMOL03595] of a 1972 photograph by AB Flygtrafik in the VM Foto collection, Vänersborgs museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021015612324/horred-interior-av-kyrkan] [accessed 7 July 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Wilhelm Ängermark, in Hallbäck (1966) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horreds_kyrka._Dopfunt.jpg] [accessed 7 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.: 920704F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F4#] [accessed 7 July 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the quatrefoil shape of the basin interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F4#] [accessed 7 July 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font at the east end of the nave, south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145111:130] of a 1894 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017209086/1m16-b145111-130] [accessed 7 July 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22789HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Horreds kyrka
Church Location: Helsjövägen 21, 519 90 Horred, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 320 801 10
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O1596 [aka Helsjövägen], W of road 41, in the municipality of Mark, just N of the county border with Halland, about 50 km SSE of Göteborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Marks härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Starrkärrsgruppen [SHM]
Church Notes: present church of 1828 replaced the medieval church here, of which it shares a wall (the N of the old one is now the S of the new one); renovated 1930s; restored 1970;
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1966). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F4] as a Starrkärrsgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone in the late-13th century; the basin decorated with fifteen arcades, each containing a distinctive Tree of Life [="med individuellt gestaltade livsträd"]. The basin is quatrefoil-shaped inside and out; the base replicates the outer shape of the basin and is decorated with mouldings. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.353583, 12.465183
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 21′ 12.9″ N, 12° 27′ 54.66″ E
UTM: 33V 347499 6359587
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoiled
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm* / 78 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1966) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F4]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966