As / Ås in Småland

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view of basin

Source caption: "Ås kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa, sandsten.} [NB: this 1949 photograph suggests the old basin was still disused at the time, as it had been in 1927 [cf. ImageFileNo. 0200925013]]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ås kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa, sandsten.} [NB: this 1949 photograph suggests the old basin was still disused at the time, as it had been in 1927 [cf. ImageFileNo. 0200925013]]
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Image Source: digital image [2035-008.TIF] of a 1949 B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ås_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200911861.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2020]
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view of basin

Source caption: "Ås kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa, sandsten.} [NB: this 1911 photograph suggests the old basin was disused at the time, as it was still in 1927 and 1949 [cf. ImageFileNos. 0200925013.and 0200925014]]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ås kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa, sandsten.} [NB: this 1911 photograph suggests the old basin was disused at the time, as it was still in 1927 and 1949 [cf. ImageFileNos. 0200925013.and 0200925014]]
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Image Source: digital image [2035-006.TIF] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Pehr Gunnar Vejde, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ås_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200911856.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2020]
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view of basin in context

Source caption: "Ås kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa, sandsten.} [NB: the position of the old basin in this 1927 photograph, the walking sticks, the bench and the old key suggest a location near the [west?] entranceway -- the old basin was obviously disused at the time, while a later font in use, as shown in ImageFileNo. 0200925012]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ås kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa, sandsten.} [NB: the position of the old basin in this 1927 photograph, the walking sticks, the bench and the old key suggest a location near the [west?] entranceway -- the old basin was obviously disused at the time, while a later font in use, as shown in ImageFileNo. 0200925012]
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Image Source: digital image [2035-007.TIF] of a 1927 B&W photograph by Henrik Alm, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ås_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200911858.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2020]
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view of church exterior

probably a south view, showing the chancel entranceway on the right -- Erik Ferdinand Ihrfors (1846-1929); the drawing is probably of the 1880s
Scene Description: probably a south view, showing the chancel entranceway on the right -- Erik Ferdinand Ihrfors (1846-1929); the drawing is probably of the 1880s
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Image Source: digital image [14042-005.TIF] of an undated drawing in Erik Ihrfors' Smolandia sacra, A. T. A., in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ås_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200134353.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2020]
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view of church exterior - west view

Source caption: "Ås kyrka i Ås socken, Västbo härad, Finnveden, Småland, Sverige. Kyrkan ligger i Gisslaveds kommun i Jönköpings län. Kyrkan tillhör Västbo S:t Sigfrids församling, Östbo-Västbo kontrakt, Växjö stift. Kyrkan invigdes 1870."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ås kyrka i Ås socken, Västbo härad, Finnveden, Småland, Sverige. Kyrkan ligger i Gisslaveds kommun i Jönköpings län. Kyrkan tillhör Västbo S:t Sigfrids församling, Östbo-Västbo kontrakt, Växjö stift. Kyrkan invigdes 1870."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gunnar Creutz, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2015 by Gunnar Creutz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ås_kyrka,_Småland_1752.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east

notice the modern font in the centre aisle, east end, by the communion railing; this font is dated 1941 so the photograph must have been taken on that date or later [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: notice the modern font in the centre aisle, east end, by the communion railing; this font is dated 1941 so the photograph must have been taken on that date or later [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image [2035-003.TIF] of an undated [1941+] B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ås_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200911841.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2020]
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view of font and baptismal dish in context

the modern font seen here at the east end of the nave, north side; it is obviously the font in use [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: the modern font seen here at the east end of the nave, north side; it is obviously the font in use [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tom Wollecki, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Tom Wollecki in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/055765/images/55765_14627824] [accessed 25 September 2020]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 22914ASS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ås [nya] kyrka
Church Location: Ås kyrkby, Gislaved Ö, 333 74 Bredaryd, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located just N of Tallberga, in the municipality and SSE of Gislaved
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Västbo härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the 'baptistery' made up by the closed N portal [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: late-12thC church was located north of the present site; said to have been badly damaged by the Danes in the Seventh-Year War; replaced by a new church on a new site in 1869; restored 1949
Font Notes:
No entry for a font at this Ås found in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld. The 2006 report by Robin Gullbrandsson for the Jönköpings läns museum [http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/show/bilaga/showDokument.raa;jsessionid=EFF29236B005184B8A757BC8CB02FBB4.lx-ra-bbr?dokumentId=21000001825934&thumbnail=false] [accessed 25 September 2020] informs on two baptismal fonts in this church: "I koret står även ett gustavianskt golvur och en snidad dopfunt från 1941, utförd av skulptören T Karlsson. [...] En dopfunt av trä snidades 1941 av skulptören Teodor Karlsson, Vingerum och målades av konservator Erik Sköld, Halmstad. [...] Från den gamla kyrkan härrör en medeltida dopfunt" [...] Den gamla kyrkans dopfunt utgörs av en odekorerad rund sandstenscuppa med skrånande bas. Frånvaron av uttömningshål talar för en datering till sent 1200-tal. Foten är till-verkad 1949 [...] Lagning och komplettering av gamla kyrkans dopfunt." Two baptismal fonts are reported in this church also in the Kyrkokartan entry [www.kyrkokartan.se/055765/images/55765_14627824] [accessed 25 September 2020]. The older font consists of a plain medieval [13th-century?] basin [sandstone?] raised on a modern [1949?] base; as noted above, the old basin was restored and given a new base in the 1949 renovation; it was then located in the improvised baptistery chapel located in what was originally the north entranceway, now walled up. The later font, a polygonal basin on a baluster pedestal base, was made of wood by Teodor Karlsson in 1941 [cf. supra] and is located at the east end of the nave. on the north side.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.101317, 13.682075
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 6′ 4.74″ N, 13° 40′ 55.47″ E
UTM: 33V 420159 6329435

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining