Balinge / Bälinge in Alingsås
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design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2
Scene Description: faint but still visible around the lower end of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920610F3#] [accessed 1 December 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920610F3#] [accessed 1 December 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.: 920610F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920610F3#] [accessed 1 December 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "Bälinge kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad 1893."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200816044_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bälinge kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad 1893."
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Image Source: digital image [2443-001.tif] of a 9 June 1893 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bälinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153207.jpg] [accessed 16 August 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the top of the baptismal font is visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200816045_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the baptismal font is visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side
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Image Source: digital image [2443-011.tif] of an undated B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bälinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153217.jpg] [accessed 16 August 2020]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Bälinge kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sandsten, 1200-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200816046_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bälinge kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sandsten, 1200-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [2443-017.tif] of a 1917 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bälinge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200153223.jpg] [accessed 16 August 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920610F3#] [accessed 1 December 2020]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Bälinge kyrka [...] Träskulptur och dopfunt." [NB: the photograph in ImageFileNo.: 0200816046 looks like a cropping of this one]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200816047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bälinge kyrka [...] Träskulptur och dopfunt." [NB: the photograph in ImageFileNo.: 0200816046 looks like a cropping of this one]
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Image Source: digital image [1M16-B145110 1336] of a 1917 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017207899/1m16-b145110-1336] [accessed 16 August 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 © Sanne S, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 18 February 2017 by Sanne S, in Lacendla [https://lavendla.se/platser-begravning/alingsas/kyrkor/balinge-kyrka-alingsas-pastorat/] [accessed 16 August 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22849BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Bälinge kyrka
Church Location: Bälinge kyrkväg 4, 441 93 Alingsås, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the E20, 4-5 km NE of Alingsås and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Kullings härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E nd, S side
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: 13thC stone church; re-built 16th and 17thC; modified 18th and 19thC; restored 1947
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1963). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F3] as a baptismal font made os sandstone in the late-12th century by a regional workshop. Baptismal font of stone consisting of a cylindrical basin decorated with a single rope motif all around, plain underbowl chamfer; raised on a circular pedestal base with a broad rope moulding atop, otherwise plain except for a pair of parallel incised grooves all around the lower base. No font cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.948472, 12.602222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 56′ 54.5″ N, 12° 36′ 8″ E
UTM: 33V 358084 6425491
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920610F3]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel: Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel, 1963