Tunge
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animal - unidentified - head
![the spiral on the right of the image has been carved as the neck and head of an animal [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210316006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the spiral on the right of the image has been carved as the neck and head of an animal [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F4] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: partly damaged; it is part of the basin block
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F4] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: around the middle of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F4] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: a thin one all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F4] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: tiny ones that appear to be floral and/or foliage in the spandrels of the vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F4] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - vine
![[NB: the detail of the original photograph has been corrected to show the detail on the underbowl]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210316007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: the detail of the original photograph has been corrected to show the detail on the underbowl]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F4] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - vine - palmette
Scene Description: forming linked spirals all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F4] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tunge_kyrka_ext4.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - belfry
Scene Description: Source caption: "Klockstapel vid Tunge kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tunge_kyrka_ext6.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tunge_kyrka_ext2.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tunge_kyrka_ext1.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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view of church interior - looking northeast
![the top of the font is discernible at the far [east] end of the left [north] bank of pews -- that was the location of the font in 1936](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210316000_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the font is discernible at the far [east] end of the left [north] bank of pews -- that was the location of the font in 1936
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2359-004.tif] of a 1936 B&W photograph, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tunge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169443.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font
![Source caption: "Tunge kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sten, 1200-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210316001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tunge kyrka [...] Dopfunt, sten, 1200-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2359-016.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tunge_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169455.jpg] [accessed 16 March 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.: 920701F4] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font is still located in the northeast corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Regionmuseum Västra Götaland, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Maria Meligren, in Kringla [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443672] [accessed 16 March 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23219TUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Tunge kyrka
Church Location: Tunge 174, 463 95 Lödöse, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 303 44 25 10
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O1998, just E of highway E45, in the municipality of Lilla Edet, equidistant (5 km) from Lilla Edet (N) and Lödöse (S)
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Ale härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Thorkillus / Thorkillusgruppen
Church Notes: medieval church modified 18thC; abandoned 1847; remained in ruins for a long time, while services were held at the village primary school; re-built and re-consecrated in the 1920s
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Hallbäck (1963) and (1969) as a baptismal font made of soapstone in the 13th century by master Thorkillus, originally from the medieval church here. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F4] as a Thorkillusgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone ca. 1200, the ends of some parts of the 9 and 1/2 vine sections ending in animal head. The font consists of an almost cylindrical basin recorated with vine patterns on the sides and underbowl chamfer; raised on a roughly cylindrical pedestal base decorated with a single moulding, and a splaying lower base, also circular. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.073681, 12.164767
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 4′ 25.25″ N, 12° 9′ 53.16″ E
UTM: 33V 332786 6440426
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 2?
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): 79 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920701F4]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel: Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel, 1963