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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: a vry thin one, all around
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920425F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920425F3] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920425F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920425F3] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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design element - patterns - sawtooth
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920425F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920425F3] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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design element - patterns - scalloped - triangular
Scene Description: three rows of triangular scallops all around
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920425F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920425F3] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkan från nordväst. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad, 1894."
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Image Source: digital image [3156-001.tif] of 17 July 1894 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bäcks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153172.jpg] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph by Anders Roland in the Kulturmiljöbild: 16000200153175 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bäcks_kyrka_old1.jpg] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bäcks kyrka. Kyrka, äldre, teckning ur Peringskiölds Monumenta, avfotograferad i färg."
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Image Source: digital image of a late-17thC drawing in Peringskiöld's Monumenta, in the Kungl. Biblioteket Peringskiöld, Johan, Monumenta Sveo-Gothorum. 9 : Monumenta per Westrogothiam, Scaniam, Hallandiam, Blekingiam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bäcks_kyrka_-_Peringskiöld.jpg] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt, täljsten, 1200-talet, med lock av trä."
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Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145110:806] of a 1914 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [accessed 13 July 2020]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image [3156-010.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bäcks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153181.jpg] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920425F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920425F3] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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view of font cover
![Source caption: "Dopfunt [...] lock av trä."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200713011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt [...] lock av trä."
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Image Source: digital image [3156-008.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bäcks_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153179.jpg] [accessed 13 July 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22799BAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Bäcks kyrka
Church Location: Bäck Kyrkan 13, 545 30 Töreboda, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2966.01, on the NE banks of the Ymsen, in the municipality an 7-8 km WSW of Töreboda, 10-12 km ESE of Mariestad
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Vadsbo 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: Dalslandsgruppen [SHM]
Church Notes: medieval wooden church replaced by present 1748 stone building; tower added 1750;
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1971). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920425F3] as a Dalslandsgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone ca. 1200. Round tapering basin with saw-tooth band below the upper rim, and a thin rope moulding around its middle; upper part of the circular stem is part of the basin block; rope moulding towards the top of the lower half of the stem, part of the base block; lower base surface has three rows of triangular scallop. Flat round wooden cover with turned knob handle/finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.692467, 14.026172
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 41′ 32.88″ N, 14° 1′ 34.22″ E
UTM: 33V 443555 6506219
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 56 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 65 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920425F3]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; p. 259