Fors in Eskilstuna No. 1 / Eskilstuna Fors
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: shows here as being badly damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3415-041.TIF] of a 1943 B&W photograph by Ivar Schnell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fors_kyrka_(Eskilstuna_Fors)_-_KMB_-_16000200093923.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: massive moulding carved all the way in to the centre drain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930814F1] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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view of base
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fors kyrka (Eskilstuna Fors) [...] Dopfuntsfot av granit, 1100-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [3415-041.TIF] of a 1943 B&W photograph by Ivar Schnell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fors_kyrka_(Eskilstuna_Fors)_-_KMB_-_16000200093923.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930814F1] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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view of base
Scene Description: as illustrated in Bennett and Edenheim in Sveriges Kyrkor (vol. 168, 1976: 51-52): "Medeltida dopfuntsfot av granit (fig. 49). Överst en kraftig repstav och därunder ett halvsfäriskt parti. Centralt urtappningshål. Höjd ca 40 cm, diameter ca. 75 cm. Sannolikt 1100-talet. Jfr t ex funten i Veckholm, Uppland (SvK Up Bd Vlll:I, s 90)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sveriges Kyrkor, 1976
Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph in Bennett and Edenheim, Sveriges Kyrkor (vol. 168, 1976: fig. 49)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church exterior - northeast view
![Source caption: "Fors kyrka med Fors kyrkopark. Eskilstuna, Sverige [...] Skulpturen "Sankt Eskil" av Sven Lundqvist skymtar till vänster."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1201210005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fors kyrka med Fors kyrkopark. Eskilstuna, Sverige [...] Skulpturen "Sankt Eskil" av Sven Lundqvist skymtar till vänster."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sniper Zeta, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 January 2015 by Sniper Zeta [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fors_kyrka_December_2014.png] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
![Source caption: "Fors kyrka (Eskilstuna Fors) [...] Kyrkan mot söder. Teckning av Johan Peringskiöld 1686. Avfotograferad."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201210001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fors kyrka (Eskilstuna Fors) [...] Kyrkan mot söder. Teckning av Johan Peringskiöld 1686. Avfotograferad."
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Image Source: digital image [3415-014.TIF] of a 1686 drawing by Johan Peringskiöld, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fors_kyrka_(Eskilstuna_Fors)_-_KMB_-_16000200093876.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
![Source caption: "Fors kyrka (Eskilstuna Fors) [...] Kyrkan mot söder."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201210002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fors kyrka (Eskilstuna Fors) [...] Kyrkan mot söder."
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Image Source: digital image [3415-001.TIF] of a 1944 B&W photograph by Ivar Schnell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fors_kyrka_(Eskilstuna_Fors)_-_KMB_-_16000200093844.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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view of church exterior in context
![Source caption: "Fors kyrka (Eskilstuna Fors) [...] Karta över omgivningarna 1641."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201210000_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fors kyrka (Eskilstuna Fors) [...] Karta över omgivningarna 1641."
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Image Source: digital image [3415-016.TIF] of a 1641 map in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fors_kyrka_(Eskilstuna_Fors)_-_KMB_-_16000200093883.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fors kyrka, a church in Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2006 by Raphael Saulus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fors_kyrka_Etuna.JPG] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Fors kyrka (Eskilstuna Fors) [...] Interiör mot nordöst."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201210003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fors kyrka (Eskilstuna Fors) [...] Interiör mot nordöst."
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Image Source: digital image [3415-023.TIF] of a 1943 B&W photograph by Ivar Schnell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fors_kyrka_(Eskilstuna_Fors)_-_KMB_-_16000200093905.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font in use is modern, neither of the two listed in BSI
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Magnus Evenseth, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Magnus Evenseth [https://fr-fr.facebook.com/pages/Fors-kyrka-Eskilstuna/857029114336312] [accessed 10 December 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23033FOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)?
Church/Chapel: Fors kyrka
Church Patron Saints: St. Eskil of Lund
Church Location: Kyrkogatan 16, 632 20 Eskilstuna, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Södermanland, Södermanlands län
Directions to Site: Located in Eskilstuna on the west bank of the Eskilstuna river, S of the E20-53 crossroads, 30-35 km S of Västerås
Ecclesiastic Region: Strängnäs stift
Historical Region: Västerrekarne härad
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century
Church Notes: original wooden church burned down; replaced 11thC by stone church; church, perhaps a manor chapel, said to have been built by the English monk St. Eskil in the mid-11thC; it was the parish church of Fors, documented 1290; modified and expanded 14th thorugh 17thC
Font Notes:
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Only the base of the medieval font of this church has survived; it is documented in a 1943 B&W photograph by Ivar Schnell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fors_kyrka_(Eskilstuna_Fors)_-_KMB_-_16000200093923.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2020]; in that photograph the base, said to be made of granite, is located outside, in the open air. Noted also in Norberg (1944). This same surviving base is noted and illustrated by Bennett and Edenheim in Sveriges Kyrkor (vol. 168, 1976: 51-52, 104): "Medeltida dopfuntsfot av granit (fig. 49). Överst en kraftig repstav och därunder ett halvsfäriskt parti. Centralt urtappningshål. Höjd ca 40 cm, diameter ca. 75 cm. Sannolikt 1100-talet. Jfr t ex funten i Veckholm, Uppland (SvK Up Bd Vlll:I, s 90)." Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930814F1] as the base of a baptismal font made of sandstone [not granite, cf. supra] ca. 1200 in a mid-Sweden workshop. [NB: the present font is modern [https://fr-fr.facebook.com/pages/Fors-kyrka-Eskilstuna/857029114336312] [accessed 10 December 2020]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.367333, 16.516233
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 22′ 2.4″ N, 16° 30′ 58.44″ E
UTM: 33V 586177 6581937
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone [cf. FontNotes]
Font Shape: [missing]
Drainage Notes: [NB: assumed the original basin also had a centre drain]
Height of Base: 40 cm* / ** 38 cm
Square Base Dimensions: [base diameter is about 75 cm at the widest]*
Notes on Measurements: * Bennett and Edenheim in Sveriges Kyrkor (vol. 168, 1976: 51-52) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930814F1]
REFERENCES
Norberg, Rune, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sörmland", Sörmlänska kyrkor, 1944