Asklanda

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design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920611F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920611F4#]

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design element - motifs - rope - parallel - 2

Scene Description: very stylised, with the turns of the rope shaped like lozanges

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920611F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920611F4#]

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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.: 920611F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920611F4#]

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view of baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Asklanda kyrka [...] Dopfat av koppar, 1688."

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Asklanda kyrka [...] Kyrkan från nordöst. Tryck av teckning ur Ernst Wennerblad "Skara stifts kyrkor" -- the drawing was done less than a decade of the major 1897-1898 restoration of this church

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Image Source: digital image [2419-001.tif] of a 12 September 1890 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asklanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200151675.jpg] [accessed 29 September 2020]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Asklanda kyrka innan kyrktornet tillkom" -- this photograph shows the church less than a decade of the major 1897-1898 restoration of this church, at which time a stone tower was added to the west end of the building

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Image Source: digital image [16000200151679] of a 1891 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asklanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200151675.jpg] [accessed 29 September 2020]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: this photograph shows the church in 1916; it had been already renovated and with a stone tower added to its west end in 1897-1898

view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asklanda_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 29 September 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: view of the church interior before the 1897-1898 restoration

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Asklanda kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster. Efter restaurering." -- the church had been restored in 1897-1898

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Asklanda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, medeltida."

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Asklanda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, medeltida."

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920611F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920611F4#]

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view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Asklanda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, medeltida."

INFORMATION

FontID: 22925ASK
Church/Chapel: Asklanda kyrka
Church Location: Asklanda kyrkby, 447 93 Vårgårda, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located (off) road 182, in the municipality and 10 km SE of Vårgårda and highway E20
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side
Church Notes: late-12C church; restored with added tower in 1897-1898
Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1963 and 1966) as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200; drain hole. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920611F4] as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200 by a regional hand. Baptimal font consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with a pair of stylised rope mouldings in the form of rows of lozenges on the sides; thick rope moulding

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.987917, 12.931194
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 59′ 16.5″ N, 12° 55′ 52.3″ E
UTM: 33V 377685 6429238

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1966) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920611F4]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel: Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel, 1963