Vara
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920522F4] [accessed 20 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: with a band of linked fan palmettes between them
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920522F4] [accessed 20 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - vine - fan palmette - linked palmettes
Scene Description: the palmettes alternating up and down
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920522F4] [accessed 20 March 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest end
Scene Description: the 1902 replacement church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bengt Oberger, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2012 by Bengt Oberger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vara_kyrka_01.JPG] [accessed 20 March 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vara gamla kyrka och kyrkogård från sydväst. Efter teckning av K Kullander. Foto i Skaraborgs länsmuseum."
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Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1860 drawing by P. Kullander, in Lagerlöf & Gustafson's Medeltida träkyrkor. 2, Västergötland, Värmland, Närke (Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet, 1985): 22
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![Source caption: "Vara Kyrka [...] Dopfunt, teckning, avfotograferad." [NB: this is probably the font at Önums kyrka -- cf. BSI entry for Önum]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210320002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vara Kyrka [...] Dopfunt, teckning, avfotograferad." [NB: this is probably the font at Önums kyrka -- cf. BSI entry for Önum]
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Image Source: digital image [2763-023.tif] of an undated drawing in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vara_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200170306.jpg] [accessed 20 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.: 920522F4] [accessed 20 March 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23224VAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Vara kyrka
Church Location: Kyrkogatan 2, 534 30 Vara, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off the crossroads of the O2538 [aka Tingshusgatan] and the O2551 [aka Järnvägsgatan], NW of Vara's town centre and highway E20
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Barne härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: a wooden medieval church with detached belfry was demolished in 1865; a new church was built in 1902 to replace the two churches at Vara and Önum; unlike most churches in this area the new buillding has the tower at the east end
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1971). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920522F4] as a Skaragruppen baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century; the cylindrical basin is decorated with a vine of 'kvastpalmetter' between two rope mouldings all around; the circular base is moulded. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.262972, 12.948972
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 15′ 46.7″ N, 12° 56′ 56.3″ E
UTM: 33V 379667 6459820
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 59 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920522F4]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; p. 346