Odskolt / Ödskölt
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design element - motifs - groove
Scene Description: the only 'decoration' on the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930714F4] [accessed 7 April 2021]
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design element - patterns - torsade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930714F4] [accessed 7 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ödskölts kyrka. Kyrkan från söder."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3098-1.TIF] of a 1909 B&W photograph by Sigfrid Gunnäs [https://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200012619] [accessed 7 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior in context - belfry
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ödskölts kyrka i Dalsland, söder om Bengtsfors."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.O.G.A., 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by D.O.G.A. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ödskölts_kyrka_och_kyrkogård_05.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ödskölts kyrka i Dalsland, söder om Bengtsfors."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.O.G.A., 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by D.O.G.A. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ödskölts_kyrka_och_kyrkogård_01.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ödskölts kyrka i Dalsland, söder om Bengtsfors."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.O.G.A., 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by D.O.G.A. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ödskölts_kyrka_och_kyrkogård_04a.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: showing the medieval font in the southeast corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Västarvet, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Lars Bergström in Kringla [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443892] [accessed 7 April 2021]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Ödskölts kyrka. Dopfunt [...] 1959 [...] Photo by Bertil Högberg"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210407029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ödskölts kyrka. Dopfunt [...] 1959 [...] Photo by Bertil Högberg"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated [ca. 1959] B&W photograph by Bertil Högberg, in Hallbäck's Medeltida dopfuntar på Dal (Vänersborg, 1959) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ödskölts_kyrka_Baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font
Scene Description: the diagonal crack said to probably be from the time when the font was being made [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930714F4] [accessed 7 April 2021]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Ödskölts kyrka. Dopfunt [...] Dopfunt av täljsten"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210407031_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ödskölts kyrka. Dopfunt [...] Dopfunt av täljsten"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3098-4.TIF] of a 1928 B&W photograph by Bertil Waldén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ödskölts_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200012649.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
INFORMATION
FontID: 23269ODS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ödskölts kyrka
Church Location: Ödskölts kyrkby, S, Bengtsfors, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Dalsland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road O2189, W of county road 172, in the municipality abd about 25 km SSW of Bengtsfors
Ecclesiastic Region: Karlstads stift
Historical Region: Vedbo härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: wooden church of 1726; re-built 1862; restored 1920s and 1959-1960;
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1959) as a baptismal font made of grey soapstone in the 13th century, its base of a unique type in Dalsland; according to this source the base has no drain [it does not mention one in the basin], and suggests the serious damage affecting this font occurred probably during its manufacture. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930714F4] as a monolithic baptismal font made of soapstone in the 13th century now raised on a later polygonal plinth. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.852122, 12.161283
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 51′ 7.64″ N, 12° 9′ 40.62″ E
UTM: 33V 336242 6527059
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 1
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 56 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1959) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930714F4]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar på Dal, Vänersborg: [Vänersborgs museum], 1959