Skara No. 1 / Scara

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Results: 6 records
animal - mammal - lion? - passant
design element - motifs - rope moulding
scene? [unidentified]
unidentified
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Olika kapitäl och valvkonsoler från Skara domkyrka på Västergötlands museum. De återanvändes inte vid Helgo Zettervalls restaurering 1886-1894 på grund av skador på dem. Därför deponerades de istället i museet. För att ersätta dem höggs nya kapitäl under restaureringen." [NB: the caption does not mention the font seen here in the bottom left corner, but refers to the other stones as a mixed variety from the earlier church not re-used in the 19thC restoration by Helgo Zettervall, all of them shown in the storage fecility at the Västergötlands museum -- the relief partially visible in the bottom-right corner appears to be the offerings by Cain and Abel]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2012 by D.O.G.A. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västergötlands_museum_kapitäl_05.JPG] [accessed 9 October 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: a medieval font from Skara cathedral in the storage facilities of the Västergötlands museum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.O.G.A., 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 August 2012 by D.O.G.A. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Västergötlands_museum_kapitäl_05.JPG] [accessed 9 October 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22944SKA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Västergötlands museum, Skara
Church/Chapel: Skara domkyrka / Sankta Maria kyrka
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Biblioteksgatan, 532 30 Skara, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the E20, about 20 km SE of Lidköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Font Location in Church: [in a museum
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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A photograph taken inside the storage area of the Västergötlands museum shows a series of stone fragments identified in the source as originally from Skara cathedral, but not used in the 19th-century restoration of that church; on the bottom is a baptismal font consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin raised on a round-to-square base; the sides of the basin appears to be decorated with scenes involving animals and perhaps humans(?); the basin has no decoration around the upper rim but has a rope moulding around the lower one; there is another rope moulding around the top of the round-to-square pedestal base; the sides of the base are also carved with [???] but in a much shallower relief. This font appears not to be listed in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld under Skara itself or under the museum.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.386389, 13.439167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 23′ 11″ N, 13° 26′ 21″ E
UTM: 33V 408741 6472788
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining