Or nr. Växjö/ Öhr / Ör (Småland)
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animal - bird - eagle - wings spread - vegetation
Scene Description: all the spaces not occupied by the eagle are filled with vegetation
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910619F2#] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - vegetation stemming from the mouth - foliated tail - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left; even the mane is foliated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [htsm0431] of a 14 January 2016 photograph by Lars Kennerstedt of a 1881 pencil drawing by Per Gustaf Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000538633.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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cleric - bishop - seated - wearing mitre - with staff in the right hand - with book in the left hand
Scene Description: the two scrolls by his lower body are the seat or throne
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910619F2#] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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design element - architectural - column - 4
Scene Description: with capitals and bases that are individualised, no two alike
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910619F2#] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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design element - motifs - plant - acanthus
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Image Source: digital image [htsm0430] of a 14 January 2016 photograph by Lars Kennerstedt of a 1881 pencil drawing by Per Gustaf Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000538631.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: on two of the sides of the basin; this side contains a later inscription between them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [htsm0431] of a 14 January 2016 photograph by Lars Kennerstedt of a 1881 pencil drawing by Per Gustaf Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000538633.jpg] [accessed 18 August 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.: 910619F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910619F2#] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles
Scene Description: on at least two of the sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910619F2#] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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head
Scene Description: two heads decorate the bases of the columns here ; the one on the left could be humanoid, grotesque or fantastic; the head on the left could be a stylised avian head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910619F2#] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
Scene Description: capital of one of the four colonnettes set at 90-degree angles on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910619F2#] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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inscription
Scene Description: a later inscription, dated 1750
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Image Source: digital image [htsm0431] of a 14 January 2016 photograph by Lars Kennerstedt of a 1881 pencil drawing by Per Gustaf Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000538633.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Örs kyrka [...] Den medeltida dopfuntens skål (cuppa). Blyertsteckning av Per Gustaf Vistrand 1881."
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Image Source: digital image [htsm0430] of a 14 January 2016 photograph by Lars Kennerstedt of a 1881 pencil drawing by Per Gustaf Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000538631.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Örs kyrka [...] Den medeltida dopfuntens skål (cuppa). Blyertsteckning av Per Gustaf Vistrand 1881."
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Image Source: digital image [htsm0431] of a 14 January 2016 photograph by Lars Kennerstedt of a 1881 pencil drawing by Per Gustaf Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000538633.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
![Source caption: "Shed of medieval timber" [NB: some claim that this may be where the original 12thC wooden church stood, before the present late-medieval church was built]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200818026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Shed of medieval timber" [NB: some claim that this may be where the original 12thC wooden church stood, before the present late-medieval church was built]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2011 by Pieter Kuiper [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Öhr,_bod_av_medeltida_virke.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Örs kyrka norr om Växjö i Småland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.O.G.A., 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by D.O.G.A. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka,_Småland_05.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ör, Småland, Sweden"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Oxford, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 June 2017 by Chris Oxford [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ohr,_Smaland,_Sweden_2017.2.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the top of the font is visble in the southeast corner, by the southeast window -- Source caption: "Örs kyrka [...] Vykort. Interiör mot öster."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200818027_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the font is visble in the southeast corner, by the southeast window -- Source caption: "Örs kyrka [...] Vykort. Interiör mot öster."
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Image Source: digital image [903-010.TIF] of an undated B&W postcard, photograph by Leif Wirén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200092207.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the window seen here in the left [north] wall was earlier open in the apse and served as backdrop to the altar [cf. ImageFileNo. 0200818027]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200818028_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the window seen here in the left [north] wall was earlier open in the apse and served as backdrop to the altar [cf. ImageFileNo. 0200818027]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2011 by Pieter Kuiper [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka,_interiör.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Örs kyrka [...] Den medeltida dopfunten. Blyertsteckning av Per Gustaf Vistrand 1881."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200818029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Örs kyrka [...] Den medeltida dopfunten. Blyertsteckning av Per Gustaf Vistrand 1881."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [htsm0429] of a 14 January 2016 photograph by Lars Kennerstedt of a 1881 pencil drawing by Per Gustaf Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Örs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000538629.jpg] [accessed 18 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.: 910619F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910619F2#] [accessed 18 August 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22858ORR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Örs kyrka
Church Location: Örs kyrkby, 360 36 Växjö, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Kronobergs län
Directions to Site: Located off (S) highway 30 [aka Växjövägen], 12 km N of Växjö and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Allbo härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Öhrmästaren? [Blomqvist]
Cognate Fonts: some similarities with Hemmesjö [SHM];
Church Notes: originally a 12thC wooden church [a wooden structure in the churchyard may be part of the original church]; late-medieval stone church, modified 17th and 18thC; tower added 19thC
Font Notes:
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Noted in Blomqvist (1929) as a font attributable to Öhrmästaren, a Jutlandic master. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century, with a later inscription "N O S : 1750" probably indicating it had been used as a tombstone at some point; the SHM entry questions Blamqvist's attribution to Öhrmästaren [cf. supra] an suggests instead certain similarities with motifs at Hemmesjö.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.9946, 14.6746
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 59′ 40.56″ N, 14° 40′ 28.56″ E
UTM: 33V 480230 6316832
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted) [with columns]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round [with columns]
Diameter (includes rim): 71 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910619F2]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on one of the sides of the basin, below the rim
Inscription Text: "N O S : 1750"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929