Stora Tuna No. 1

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view of base - lower base

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfuntsfot, gotländskt kalksten från 1200-talets slut eller 1300-talets början"

INFORMATION

FontID: 22938TUN
Church/Chapel: Stora Tuna Kyrka
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin?, St. Erik and St. Olav
Church Location: Tunavägen 241, 784 63 Borlänge, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 243 771 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Dalarna, Dalarnas län
Directions to Site: Located off (W) highway 70, 4-5 km SE of Borlänge town centre and in its municipality, 10-15 km SW of Falun down the E16 highway
Ecclesiastic Region: Västerås stift
Historical Region: Hagunda härad / Kopparbergs län
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
An undated B&W photograph by Gerda Boëthius in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stora_Tuna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200009543.jpg] [accessed 6 October 2020] notes and illustrates the lower base of a baptismal font: "Dopfuntsfot, gotländskt kalksten från 1200-talets slut eller 1300-talets början"; the object is circular and has the usual splaying of font bases of the period and made of Gotland limestone; it does not show a drain hole, which probably means that the original font did not have one either. [NB: we have no information on the present [2020] whereabouts of this object -- Gerda Boëthius (1890-1961) was an art historian and professor of art history in the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.451944, 15.475556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 27′ 7″ N, 15° 28′ 32″ E
UTM: 33V 526163 6701839

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Gotland)
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]