Torsaker nr. Kramfors / Torsåker / Thorsakir
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view of church exterior - belfry
![Source caption: "Torsåkers klockstapel [...] Torsåkers kyrka, Härnösands stift"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210505003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torsåkers klockstapel [...] Torsåkers kyrka, Härnösands stift"
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2012 by Y-näsmannen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torsåkers_klockstapel,_Härnösands_stift.JPG] [accessed 5 May 2021]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torsåkers kyrka, Härnösands stift"
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2012 by Y-näsmannen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torsåkers_kyrka,_Härnösands_stift.JPG] [accessed 5 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Torsåker parish, Ångermanland, Sweden."
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 8 May 2012 by Lavallen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torsåkers_kyrka,_Ångermanland.JPG] [accessed 5 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Torsåkers church in Ångermanland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Daniel Sjöberg, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Daniel Sjöberg / Allmogen.org [https://allmogens.se/en/place/torsakers-kyrka-angermanland/] [accessed 5 May 2021]
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view of church interior - nave - painting - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mural from the 15th century in Torsåker church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Daniel Sjöberg, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Daniel Sjöberg / Allmogen.org [https://allmogens.se/en/place/torsakers-kyrka-angermanland/] [accessed 5 May 2021]
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view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child
Scene Description: Source caption: "Madonna sculpture from the 13th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Daniel Sjöberg, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Daniel Sjöberg / Allmogen.org [https://allmogens.se/en/place/torsakers-kyrka-angermanland/] [accessed 5 May 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23293TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Torsåkers kyrka
Church Patron Saints: St. Olaf [aka Olaf II Haraldsson, Óláfr Haraldsson, Olav, Olav Haraldsson, Olave, Olof]
Church Location: Kyrkvägen 20, 870, 870 52 Nyland, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 612 855 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Ångermanland, Västernorrlands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road Y791, E of county road 90, in the municipality and 13-14 km NW of Kramfors
Ecclesiastic Region: Härnösands stift
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: 13thC church; modified 14thC; expanded 15th, 17th (old bell tower demolished -- new one built), 18th and 19thC; mural paintings uncovered in the 1930 renovation; -- notrious church for 1675 witch-burning massacre (Torsåker church stood as a courtroom when the priest Laurentius Christophori Hornaeus sentenced 71 women, children and even men to witchcraft. The convicts took their last communion in Torsåker church before they were taken to the so-called Häxberget where they were beheaded and then burned at the stake)
Font Notes:
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A reference to the [a?] medieval baptismal font and a Baroque pulpit appears in TORSÅKER med YTTERLÄNNÄS och DAL.(Ångermanland.) [http://blasta.familyds.org/herdamin/torsaker.pdf] [accessed 5 May 2021]: "Bland inventarierna märkas en dopfunt af kalksten från 1300-talet och den gamlapredikstolen, utförd i barockstil 1739 af Magnus Gran (deponerad i Hsands museum)." [NB: not clear whether both objects are now in the museum of only the pulpit]. The present font in this church is reported as having been made [ca. 1773?] by Johan Edler the Elder; in the shape of a putto carrying a tray [NB: Johannes (Johan) Edler den äldre (1734-1797) en svensk skulptör [source: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon [https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=16625] [accessed 5 May 2021]].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 63.079778, 17.741611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 63° 4′ 47.2″ N, 17° 44′ 29.8″ E
UTM: 33V 638459 6997432