Landvetter / Landwittarid
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 12 arches - columns - columns with capitals
Scene Description: a very 'organic' arcade, as they are in this group of fonts; each 'capital' is a circle with an enclosed bead in it; the 'columns' have no bases but tie with each other at the bottom
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F2#] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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design element - motifs - circle or roundel
Scene Description: each spandrel has one of these, an incised circle with a whole in its centre; they appear to be unfinished, as if the carver intended to match the motifs that make up the 'capitals' below
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F2#] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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symbol - tree - Tree of life
Scene Description: each one of a different design; the motif of the bead enclosed in a circle repeats itself, not just in the 'capitals' of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F2#] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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symbol - tree - Tree of life
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F2#] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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symbol - tree - Tree of life
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F2#] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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symbol - tree - Tree of life
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F2#] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefan Linder, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2006 by Stefan Linder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landvetterkyrka.JPG] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F2#] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950829F2#] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Landvetters kyrka [...] Predikstol, slutet av 1800-talet. Efter restaurering." -- at the time the baptismal font was on the north side of the nave, near the pulpit](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210105037_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Landvetters kyrka [...] Predikstol, slutet av 1800-talet. Efter restaurering." -- at the time the baptismal font was on the north side of the nave, near the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [732-017.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Axel Forssén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landvetters_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200161156.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Landvetters kyrka [...] Dopfunt av grå kalksten, 1300-talet." -- the photograph was taken before the restauration; at the time the baptismal font was on the north side of the nave, near the pulpit](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210105038_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Landvetters kyrka [...] Dopfunt av grå kalksten, 1300-talet." -- the photograph was taken before the restauration; at the time the baptismal font was on the north side of the nave, near the pulpit
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Image Source: digital image [732-025.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landvetters_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200161168.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font is partially visible here in the east side of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohusläns museum, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Tomas Brandt, in the Bohusläns museum, in Kringla, Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000420922] [accessed 5 January 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23078LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Landvetters kyrka
Church Location: Kyrkvägen 5, 438 36 Landvetter, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 31 97 71 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off (S) highway 40, in the municipality of Härryda, on the E shore of Landvettersjön, SE of Göteborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Sävedals härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, S side [cf. ImagesArea]
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Starrkärrsgruppen [SHM]
Church Notes: present church originally 14thC; tower added ca. 1840; church modified 1950s
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1963). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2] as a Starrkärrsgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone in the late-13th century; the basin is of quatrefoiled shape with vertical sides, each lobe with three arches, each arch housing a Tree of Life [="livsträd"], a total of twelve; the underbowl has a sigle thin moulding at the bottom; the pedestal base has a tetrafoiled stem with a moulding at the lower base. No cover present. An unconfirmed source without references [https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landvetters_kyrka] [accessed 5 January 2021] suggests that it was made in the late-13th century in the Cistercian monastery of Ås, and that the decoration on its sides originates from the Holy Land, where French crusaders found the pattern and took it home to their land.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.681444, 12.208342
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 40′ 53.2″ N, 12° 12′ 30.03″ E
UTM: 33V 333553 6396673
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950829F2]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel: Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel, 1963