Otterstad No. 2 / Thoresrid / Thorsö / Torsö / Traneberg

Image copyright © Kerstin Larsson, 2017

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [3136-013.tif] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otterstad,_Sankta_Marie_kapell_-_KMB_-_16000200165014.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: digital image [3136-003.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Sigurd Curman, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otterstad,_Sankta_Marie_kapell_-_KMB_-_16000200165004.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Otterstad, Sankta Marie kapell [...] Kapellet från sydöst, efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad, 1900."

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Image Source: digital image [3136-001.tif] of a 16 August 1900 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otterstad,_Sankta_Marie_kapell_-_KMB_-_16000200165002.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Otterstad, Sankta Marie kapell [...] Interiör mot öster."

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Image Source: digital image [3136-011.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otterstad,_Sankta_Marie_kapell_-_KMB_-_16000200165012.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Otterstad, Sankta Marie kapell [...] Interiör mot väster."

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Image Source: digital image [3136-012.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otterstad,_Sankta_Marie_kapell_-_KMB_-_16000200165013.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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view of font

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [3136-013.tif] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otterstad,_Sankta_Marie_kapell_-_KMB_-_16000200165014.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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view of font - elevation and section

Scene Description: Source caption: "Otterstad, Sankta Marie kapell [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet. Uppmätning av Anders Roland, 1911."

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Image Source: digital image [3136-014.tif] of a 1911 drawing by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otterstad,_Sankta_Marie_kapell_-_KMB_-_16000200165015.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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view of font and baptismal dish in context

Scene Description: photographed in August 2017 inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerstin Larsson, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2017 by Kerstin Larsson, in Svenska kyrkan [www.svenskakyrkan.se/sunnersberg/sta-marie-kapell] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the caption for this photograph in Fischer [cf. FontNotes] reads: "Funten flyterrassen bakom Tranebergs huvudbyggnad." -- Source caption in the KMB entry: "Otterstad, Sankta Marie kapell [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet."

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Image Source: digital image [3136-013.tif] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otterstad,_Sankta_Marie_kapell_-_KMB_-_16000200165014.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: photographed inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inga Kajsa Christensson / KRINGLA, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Inga Kajsa Christensson, in KRINGLA [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443438] [accessed 5 August 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22836OTT
Church/Chapel: Sankta Marie kapell
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Traneberg, 531 99 Kållandsö, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2582, SE of theTraneberg farm, 2-3 km SW of Kållandsö, in Lidköping municipality and 20-25 km N of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Kållands härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: originally a parish church known as Thorsö kyrka; documented 1344; abandoned in the later Middle Ages; became private property in 1520; partially demolished and re-built 1678; modified and expanded mid-18thC
The entry for this chapel -originally a parish church- in Ernst Fischer, Sveriges kyrkor, Västergötland reports and illustrates a 12th-century baptismal font of sandstone located at the time in "Tranebergs gård" [="Dopfunt av sand­sten (fig. 38). Rund, oornerad s kål. 1100­talet. H. 70 cm., Diam. 58 cm. - Funten flyterrassen bakom Tranebergs huvudbyggnad."]. The font, which appears to consist of two blocks, has a cylidrical basin with plain sides and a chamferred underbowl with a moulding at its bottom end; the base is round-to-square in shape, the round part moulded. The font is shown in a photograph taken 24 August 2017 by Kerstin Larsson, in Svenska kyrkan [www.svenskakyrkan.se/sunnersberg/sta-marie-kapell] [accessed 5 August 2020], somewhat cleaned up and restored to use, inside the church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.6607, 13.1205
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 39′ 38.52″ N, 13° 7′ 13.8″ E
UTM: 33V 390967 6503799

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 58 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ernst Fischer, Sveriges kyrkor, Västergötland Bd. 1, p. 40

REFERENCES

Fischer, Ernst, Sveriges kyrkor: Västergötland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1922-1975