Skephult
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view of font
Scene Description: the present base is a later replacement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F4] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: :Skephults kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av kalksten, delvis från 1100-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210312041_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: :Skephults kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av kalksten, delvis från 1100-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2188-005.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Nils G. Wollin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skephults_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200166767.jpg] [accessed 12 Mrch 2021]
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design element - motifs - plant or tree
Scene Description: the painting and some of the carving are of a later date than the font itself
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F4] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: in some of the spandrels of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F4] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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human figure - head - wearing hood
Scene Description: the painting and some of the carving are of a later date than the font itself
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F4] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - plant or tree
Scene Description: the painting and some of the carving are of a later date than the font itself
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F4] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - double
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F4] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: the painting and some of the carving are of a later date than the font itself
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F4] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skephults_kyrka_3.JPG] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skephults_kyrka_2.JPG] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skephults_kyrka_5.JPG] [accessed 12 March 2021]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: :Skephults kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av kalksten, delvis från 1100-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210312042_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: :Skephults kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av kalksten, delvis från 1100-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2188-006.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Carl-Filip Mannerstråle, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skephults_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200166768.jpg] [accessed 12 Mrch 2021]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23212SKE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Skephults kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side
Church Notes: original wooden church of unknown date [14th-15thC?]; belfry added in 1725; dilapidated by 1841; present wooden church of 1844
Church Address: 511 74 Skephult, Sweden
Site Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the O1651-O1650 crossroads, E of highway 41, in the municipality of Mark, about 25 km SSW of Borås
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Marks härad
Additional Comments: altered font / painted and gilded font (the base is of a later date, as is the painting on the basin)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1966) as a baptismal font made in part of limestone in the 14th century, the round basin decorated with an arcade of seven round arches containing vegetal motifs in six of them, the seventh with a human head in profile wearing a hood; Hallbäck (ibid.) warns that the decoration and the paint are probably a later addition; the stone basin rests on a wooden base. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F4] as the basin of a baptismal font made of sandstone in the first half of the 13th century; the painting and gilding is a later addition.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 373166 6379064
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.536286, 12.881356
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 32′ 10.63″ N, 12° 52′ 52.88″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: round, mounted -- chalice-shaped, goblet-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm+
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F4]
REFERENCES
- Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966, p. 176