Varola / Warola

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view of church exterior

Source caption: "Varola kyrka [...] Kyrkan från nordöst, efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad, 1893." -- showing the 1864 church, the third recorded in Varola -- notice the stone baptismal font in the centre of the image, just above the name of the church [spelled "Warola"]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Varola kyrka [...] Kyrkan från nordöst, efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad, 1893." -- showing the 1864 church, the third recorded in Varola -- notice the stone baptismal font in the centre of the image, just above the name of the church [spelled "Warola"]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2877-005.tif] of a 22 March 1893 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varola_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200170341.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "Varola kyrka [...] Kyrkan, en äldre, teckning i Peringskiölds Monumenta, avfotograferad."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Varola kyrka [...] Kyrkan, en äldre, teckning i Peringskiölds Monumenta, avfotograferad."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2877-004.tif] of a late-17thC drawing in Peringskiöld's Monumenta, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varola_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200170340.jpg] [accessed 20 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 31 July 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varola_kyrka.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.: 920508F3] [accessed 20 March 2021]
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view of font and baptismal dish in context

Source caption: "Thorvaldsenskopian har fått komma ner från vinden och står nu vid dopfunten"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Thorvaldsenskopian har fått komma ner från vinden och står nu vid dopfunten"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn, in KyrkoKartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/056570/images/56570_14526592] [accessed 20 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font in context

Source caption: "Varola kyrka [...] Dopfunt, möjligen inte tillhörande Varola kyrka." -- this appears not to be the same font shown in Wennerblad's drawing of 1893 -- if not from the Varola church, where was this font from, and why was it outside Varola's church? [cf. FontNoes]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Varola kyrka [...] Dopfunt, möjligen inte tillhörande Varola kyrka." -- this appears not to be the same font shown in Wennerblad's drawing of 1893 -- if not from the Varola church, where was this font from, and why was it outside Varola's church? [cf. FontNoes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2877-010.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Uno Otterstedt, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varola_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200170346.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font in context

Source caption: "Varola kyrka [...] Dopfunt, möjligen inte tillhörande Varola kyrka." -- this appears not to be the same font shown in Wennerblad's drawing of 1893 -- if not from the Varola church, where was this font from, and why was it outside Varola's church? [cf. FontNoes]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Varola kyrka [...] Dopfunt, möjligen inte tillhörande Varola kyrka." -- this appears not to be the same font shown in Wennerblad's drawing of 1893 -- if not from the Varola church, where was this font from, and why was it outside Varola's church? [cf. FontNoes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2877-011.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Uno Otterstedt, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varola_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200170347.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

INFORMATION

FontID: 23227VAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Varola kyrka
Church Location: 541 94 Varola, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 500 42 50 09
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2882, in the municipality and 9-10 km SE of Skövde
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Kåkinds härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, in the SE corner
Church Notes: mid-12thC(?) church replaced by new building 1842 on a new site; lasted only 10 years as foundations were faulty; new church built 1864; renovated 1954-1955
Font Notes:
Noted in Hallbäck (1971). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920508F3] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the first half of the 13th cntury by a regional workshop. The font consists of a roughly cyclindrical basin with a chamfered underbowl, raised on a round pedestal base with a splaying slightly concave base; all plain. No cover present. The March 1893 drawing of this church by Ernst Wennerblad shows a baptismal font outside the church, obviously disused at the time; two other medieval fonts also appear outside this church in two of Uno Otterstedt (1888-1969)'s photographs [cf. ImagesArea]; none of these images correspond to to the present font in Varola's church [NB: we have no information of where those other fonts came from, nor what their present whereabouts are].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.335139, 13.984306
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 20′ 6.5″ N, 13° 59′ 3.5″ E
UTM: 33V 440526 6466472

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): 73 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 83 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920508F3]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; p. 347