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
Font ID: 22938TUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Stora Tuna Kyrka
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin?, St. Erik and St. Olav
Church Address: Tunavägen 241, 784 63 Borlänge, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 243 771 00
Site Location: Dalarna, Dalarnas län, Sweden, Europe
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
Additional Comments: fragment of a font / disused font (only the lower base survived [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 33V 526163 6701839
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 60.451944, 15.475556
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 60° 27′ 7″ N, 15° 28′ 32″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Gotland)
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]