Surteby / Surteby-Kattunga

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals

Scene Description: as in other fonts of this group the arcade is a 'live' structure that has stylised capitals and where the supporting columns continue across the bottom to form decorative shapes

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 4

Scene Description: the quatrefoiled shape of the inner basin can be seen here

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8-petal

Scene Description: next to it the concentric circle motif that makes the stylised capitals of the arcade, a plant-like motif at the bottom and a circle on the left

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the colonnettes of the base

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: simularing a cinch for the clustered colonnettes

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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symbol or motif - varied

Scene Description: five of them seen here, from left to right, including a Bowen cross / St Hans cross, two possible Trees of Life, etc.

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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symbol or motif - varied

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: a blank arch [or was its content chiselled off?], a cross with roundel top, a Tree of Life?

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H. Lindberg Handels AB, 1971

Image Source: digital image of a 1971 photograph, VM Foto, Vänersborgs museum. Publisher: H. Lindberg Handels AB [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surteby_kyrka_1971.jpg] [accessed 19 August 2020

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kemitsv, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2011 by Kemitsv [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surteby_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Surteby-Kattunga, Surteby kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."

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Image Source: digital image [2212-001.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surteby-Kattunga,_Surteby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200167639.jpg] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Surteby kyrka. Interiör mot koret"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vänersborgs museum, 1981

Image Source: digital image of a 1981 photograph in the VM Foto collection, Vänersborgs museum [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surteby_kyrka._Interiör_1981.jpg] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920704F3#] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font at the east end of the nave, south side

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Image Source: digital image [2212-016.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surteby-Kattunga,_Surteby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200167659.jpg] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: taken outside, perhaps during the 1926 renovation of the church? -- Source caption: "Surteby-Kattunga, Surteby kyrka [...] Dopfunt, kalksten, 1200-talet."

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Image Source: digital image [2212-029.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surteby-Kattunga,_Surteby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200167674.jpg] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: taken outside, perhaps during the 1926 renovation of the church? -- Source caption: "Surteby-Kattunga, Surteby kyrka [...] Dopfunt, kalksten, 1200-talet."

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the medieval font by the pylpit stairs; taken probably after the 1926 renovation of the church -- Source caption: "Surteby-Kattunga, Surteby kyrka [...] Dopfunt, kalksten, 1200-talet."

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Image Source: digital image [2212-031.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surteby-Kattunga,_Surteby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200167677.jpg] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the southeast corner of the nave, right of the communion railing

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vänersborgs museum, 1981

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1981 photograph in the VM Foto collection, Vänersborgs museum [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surteby_kyrka._Interiör_1981.jpg] [accessed 19 August 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22860SUR
Church/Chapel: Surteby kyrka
Church Location: Surteby kyrkby, Lundavägen, 519 94 Björketorp, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 320 604 45
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off (E) local road O1602 [aka Holmåkravägen], in the municipality of Mark
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Marks härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Starrkärrsgruppen
Church Notes: 13thC stone church; 1780s; present tower added 1820s; church restored 1890s; renovated 1926
Hallbäck (1966) reports three fonts associated with this church; of the three the one belonging to this church is described as belonging to group of fonts related to the one at Starrkärrs kyrka [cf. infra]; a font made of soapstone in the 13th century and consisting of a quatrefoiled basin decorated with varied motifs and symbols inside arches or panels, raised on a four-column cluster with a moulded centre ring. In Reuterswärd (1984). This same font is noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3] as a Starrkärrsgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone in the late 13th century; the SHM entry cites Hallbäck and Reuterswärd [cf. supra].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.441578, 12.516839
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 26′ 29.68″ N, 12° 31′ 0.62″ E
UTM: 33V 350964 6369265

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoiled
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 69 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920704F3]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966
Reutersvärd, Patrik, "The Forgotten Symbols of God, II och III.", 2-4, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1984