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![Source caption: "Norra Björke kyrka [...] Dopfunt, kalksten, 1200-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200819027_compressed.png)
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![Source caption: "Norra Björke kyrka [...] Dopfunt, kalksten, 1200-talet, detalj av runinskrift."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200819030_compressed.png)
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![Source caption: "Norra Björke kyrka [...] Dopfunt, kalksten, 1200-talet, detalj av runinskrift."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200819024_compressed.png)
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![Source caption: "Norra Björke kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad 1895."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200819022_compressed.png)
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920630F5] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920630F5#] [accessed 19 August 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 22863BJO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Dalslandsgruppen [SHM]
Church / Chapel Name: Norra Björke kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end
Church Notes: medieval church; expanded 1754; belfry demolished 1817 [MB: but Wennerblad's drawing of 1895 shows one there]; re-built 1903
Church Address: Norra Björke Kyrka, 461 95 Trollhättan, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 521 26 58 50
Site Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Norra Björke kyrka is located off local road O2044, E of highway 47, about a mile N of the town, in the municipality and about 10 km E of Trollhättan
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Väne härad
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1963). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920630F5] as a Dalslandsgruppen font made of soapstone ca. 1200, citing Hallbäck [cf. supra]. The font consists of two parts; the basin block has a saw-tooth pattern all around below the upper rim, and a thin rope moulding around its middle; there is some Runic lettering [transcription and translation not available] incised between the pattern and the moulding; the plain uderbowl ends in a short shaft that meets the moulded top of a pedestal base; the lower base, part of the second block is circular and decorated with graded mouldings. No cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 354532 6463143
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.2852, 12.5189
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 17′ 6.72″ N, 12° 31′ 8.04″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920630F5]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: runes
Inscription Location: on the side of the basin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel: Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel, 1963, p. 163