Orslosa / Örslösa

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view of base - elevation and section

Scene Description: Source caption: "Örslösa kyrka [...] Uppmätning av fot till dopfunt av sandsten. Ritning av Anders Roland, 1913."
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Image Source: digital image [2737-027.tif] of a 1913 drawing by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örslösa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000011972.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2020]
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view of base in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Örslösa kyrka [...] Fot till dopfunt av sandsten. Har tillhört Örslösa gamla kyrka. Vid södra porten."
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Image Source: digital image [2737-026.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örslösa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000011971.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Örslösa kyrka [...] Äldre bild av kyrkan. Foto efter teckning i Peringskiölds monumenta."
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Image Source: digital image [2737-002.tif] of a late-17thC drawing in Peringskiöld's monumenta, in Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örslösa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000011947.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Örslösa kyrka [...] Kyrkans från syd. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad, 1888."
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Image Source: digital image [2737-004.tif] of an 18 September 1888 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örslösa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000011949.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2019 by Nasko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örslösa_kyrka_01.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Örslösa kyrka [...] Interiör mot öst och koret. Välvt tak."
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Image Source: digital image [2737-014.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örslösa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000011959.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2020]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 22818ORS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)
Church/Chapel: Örslösa kyrka
Church Location: Örslösa kyrkby, 531 97 Lidköping, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off the O2559-O2570 crossroads, in the municipality and 8-9 km WNW of Lidköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Kållands härad
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: medieval church partly demolished 1799, but west wall and tower retained from the old building; re-built 1800; restored 1902; renovated 2007
Font Notes:
The entry for this church by Ernst Fischer in Sveriges Kyrkor [http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/handle/raa/6860] (vol. 15, 1922: 342-343, 479) reports that only the base of the medieval sandstone font has survived, now [then] located by the south gate; the whereabouts of the original basin not known [="Foten till en romansk dopfunt av sandsten (fig. 345), som tillhört gamla kyrkan, står nu vid södra porten." [NB: we are unable to give a precise present [July 2020] location for the medieval font base]. No entry for this font found in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld. Present font is made of gneiss and was donated to the church in 1958 by Astrid Johansson of Stockholm; cylindrical basin decorated with dove relief. The entry for this font in Sveriges kyrkor describes it as a very poor work similar to another such in Tranum: "Dopfunt, gjuten i cement efter mönster från predikstolen. Synnerligen tarvligt arbete från senaste tid. En liknande finnes i Tranums kyrka".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.507417, 13.006528
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 30′ 26.7″ N, 13° 0′ 23.5″ E
UTM: 33V 383850 6486928

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Drainage Notes: [missing basin probably had a centre drain hole as well]