Bollebygd
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design element - motifs - leaf or plant - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on the pper surface of the lower base
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Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F4#] [accessed 18 October 2020
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: it appears to be part of the basin block
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F4#] [accessed 18 October 2020
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: forming an interlace of connected circles, with tendrils sprouting in the spandrels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F4#] [accessed 18 October 2020
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kemitsv, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2012 by Kemitsv [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bollebygds_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 18 October 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Karl Richard Nilsson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2012 Karl Richard Nilsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bollebygds_kyrka_från_Ö.JPG] [accessed 18 October 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the large damaged area of the basin side at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F4#] [accessed 18 October 2020
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the northeast corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Karl Richard Nilsson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2012 Karl Richard Nilsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bollebygds_kyrka_-_dopfunt.JPG] [accessed 18 October 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22961BOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Bollebygds kyrka
Church Location: Bollebygds kyrkväg 1, 517 37 Bollebygd, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of local roads O1757, 1758 and O527, N of highway 27/40, 30-35 km E of Göteborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Bollebygds härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: 13thC church; replaced on a new site 200 yards west by a new church consecrated in 1849; restored 1935
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1966 and 1969) as a much damaged baptismal font of soapstone made by master Thorkillus in the 13th century. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F4] as a Thorkillusgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone ca. 1200; the SHM entry reports that part of the basin side is broken off and missing.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.67275, 12.556083
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 40′ 21.9″ N, 12° 33′ 21.9″ E
UTM: 33V 354245 6394905
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 55 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 72 cm* / 73 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1966) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F4]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Halland, 1969