Fuxerna
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design element - motifs - panel - rectangular - 4
Scene Description: marked by vertical and horizontal grooves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920701F2#] [accessed 14 December 2020]
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design element - motifs - piping - 4
Scene Description: four horizontal pipes diagonally set on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920701F2#] [accessed 14 December 2020]
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design element - patterns - arrow-head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920701F2#] [accessed 14 December 2020]
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
![Source caption: "Fuxerna kyrka [...] Gravar på kyrkogården, samt gravkor?"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201214016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fuxerna kyrka [...] Gravar på kyrkogården, samt gravkor?"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [702-041.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Bertil Berthelson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuxerna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200155629.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkan i sv:Fuxerna församling, sv:Lilla Edet. "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tubaist, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2005 by Tubaist [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuxerna_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2020]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2020 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuxerna_kyrkas_kyrkorum.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: now raised on a modern plinth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920701F2#] [accessed 14 December 2020]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Fuxerna kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sten, 1200-talet. Efter restaureringen 1934."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201214019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fuxerna kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sten, 1200-talet. Efter restaureringen 1934."
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Image Source: digital image [702-030.tif] of an undated [post-1934] B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuxerna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200155603.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font in context
![Source caption: "Fuxerna kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sten, 1200-talet"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201214020_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fuxerna kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sten, 1200-talet"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [702-031.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuxerna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200155604.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font in context
![Source caption: "Fuxerna kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sten, 1200-talet"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201214021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fuxerna kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sten, 1200-talet"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [702-032.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuxerna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200155605.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font in context
Scene Description: the medieval font seen at the east end of the nave, in the mid-19thC church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maria Mellgren / Regionmuseum Västra Götaland, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Maria Mellgren, in Kringla Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000549670] [accessed 14 December 2020]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 23042FUX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Fuxerna kyrka [aka Sofiakyrka]
Church Location: Fuxernavägen 19, 463 33 Lilla Edet, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2022 [aka Göteborgsvägen], W of highway 45, in the municipality of Lilla Edet, 50-60 km NNE of Göteborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift [since 2002]
Historical Region: Flundre härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, at the E end
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Dalslandsgruppen [SHM]
Church Notes: original 12thC church replaced by present 1860 building
Font Notes:
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Noted Hallbäck (1963). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F2] as a Dalslandsgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone in the second half of the 12th century. Baptismal font consisting of a slightly tapering square basin decorated with a band of arrow-head motif all around just below the upper rim; the side panels are delineated by vertical and horizaontal grooves; there is a quadrangular extension of the underbowl that appears to be part of the basin block, a sort of squat stem; the base is also quadrangular, a narrow volume with diagonal pipes followed down by the lower volume, also quadrangular and wider, now much damaged; the font is now raised on a modern square plinth. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.128517, 12.124147
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 7′ 42.66″ N, 12° 7′ 26.93″ E
UTM: 33V 330652 6446629
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
Font Height (less Plinth): 68 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 59 x 59 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F2]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel: Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel, 1963