Alekulla / Älekulla
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 12 - columns - columns with capitals
Scene Description: very stylised, the capitals just a circle with an inscribed bead
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F2] [accessed 21 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - circle
Scene Description: usually with a little hole inside
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F2] [accessed 21 March 2021]
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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?
Scene Description: Source caption; "livsträd"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F2] [accessed 21 March 2021]
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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?
Scene Description: Source caption; "livsträd"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F2] [accessed 21 March 2021]
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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?
Scene Description: Source caption; "livsträd"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F2] [accessed 21 March 2021]
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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?
Scene Description: Source caption; "livsträd"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F2] [accessed 21 March 2021]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musicus, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2012 by Musicus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Älekulla_ka.JPG] [accessed 21 March 2021]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a 1966 B&W photograph by Claes Claesson in Hallbäck's Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden (Stockhol, 1966) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Älekulla_kyrka._Dopfunt.jpg] [accessed 21 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.: 920706F2] [accessed 21 March 2021]
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view of font in context
![Source caption; "Älekulla kyrka [...] Dopfunt i täljsten. Kyrkans äldsta inventarium. Utan uttömningshål, fyrpassformad med enkel arkadindelning. Vegetativa ornament i relief. 1300-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210321029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption; "Älekulla kyrka [...] Dopfunt i täljsten. Kyrkans äldsta inventarium. Utan uttömningshål, fyrpassformad med enkel arkadindelning. Vegetativa ornament i relief. 1300-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [2208-018.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Thorbjörn Engblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Älekulla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000011351.jpg] [accessed 21 March 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23223ALE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Älekulla kyrka
Church Location: Gunnarsjö 13, 511 94 Älekulla, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 320 563 30
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off (S) local road O1520, in the municipality of Mark, 14-15 km S of Kinna
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Marks härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Starrkärrsgruppen
Cognate Fonts: other such
Church Notes: Medieval church; extended 1794; wooden tower of 1877 replaced the earlier belfry; sacristy added 1935
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1966) as a late-13th century baptismal font of soapstone of the group based on the design of the font at Starrkärr. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F2] as a Starrkärrsgruppen baptismal font made of soapstone in the second half of the 13th century; the basin is of quatrefoil shape inside and out, the outer sides decorated with an arcade of twelve round arches on stylised columns containing vegetal motifs and symbols; there are incised circles incised in many of the psandrels; raised on a pedestal of the same shape as the basin, with a thin moulding towards the middle, the lower base broader and of the same quatrefoil shape. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.34475, 12.726
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 20′ 41.1″ N, 12° 43′ 33.6″ E
UTM: 33V 363154 6358050
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: quatrefoil (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm* / 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1966) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920706F2]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966