Skarke
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: very worn; may have been paterned originally
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [1M16-A9920] of a 1921 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the VGM Foto collection [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017193229/1m16-a9920] [accessed 2 October 2020]
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design element - motifs - spur or stop - 4
Scene Description: making the base square at the bottom
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [1M16-A9920] of a 1921 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the VGM Foto collection [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017193229/1m16-a9920] [accessed 2 October 2020]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Norra Lundby socken. Valle härad. Västergötland. Nedre delen av dopfunt i Rörets trädgård,på gränsen till Skarke (antagligen från Skarke kyrka)."
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [1M16-A9922] of a 1921 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin, in the VGM Foto collection [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017193251/1m16-a9922] [accessed 2 October 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22928SKA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)?
Church/Chapel: Skarke kyrka [destroyed ca. 1566]
Church Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Skarke Kyrka was located near the Varnhem monastery, in the Norra Lundby 'socken'
Ecclesiastic Region: [Skara stift]
Historical Region: Valle härad
Font Location in Church: [not in a church -- cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: the medieval church of Skarke said to have been destroyed by the Danes in 1566, at which time the monastery church of Varnhem is said to have taken over the role of parish church
Font Notes:
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There are two 1921 B&W photographs by Sanfrid Welin [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017193251/1m16-a9922] and [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017193229/1m16-a9920] [accessed 2 October 2020] that show the base of a stone baptismal font in a field; the photographs are captioned "Norra Lundby socken. Valle härad. Västergötland. Nedre delen av dopfunt i Rörets trädgård,på gränsen till Skarke (antagligen från Skarke kyrka)" [NB: the second photograph adds: "Fot till dopfunt"], indicating that the object is the base of the baptismal font from the disappeared parish church at Skarke; this church is said to have been destroyed by the Danes in 1566; the nearby monastery church of Varnhem took over the parochial role afterwards. [NB: some sources suggest that the font now at Varnhem [cf. BSI entry] may have been originally the font at the Skarke parish church -- was this attribution made perhaps on the misguided assumption that monastery churches did not have fonts?].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Drainage Notes: only the base remains