Vallda
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals - 16
Scene Description: the 'capitals' are of ball-in-socket shape, characteristic of the fonts in this group
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920506F1] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 4
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920506F1] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - Tree of Life?
Scene Description: each of the sixteen on the basin side is of individual design -- the SHM caption reads "livsträd"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920506F1] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - Tree of Life?
Scene Description: each of the sixteen on the basin side is of individual design -- the SHM caption reads "livsträd"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920506F1] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - Tree of Life?
Scene Description: each of the sixteen on the basin side is of individual design -- the SHM caption reads "livsträd"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920506F1] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920506F1] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: a thin one, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920506F1] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vallda kyrka och kyrkby. Talrika boplatser från förhistorisk tid, öster och väster om kyrkan. Bilden är tagen mot (väderstreck): SO."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Norrman / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2016
Image Source: digital image [NF970533] of a 16 August 1997 photograph by Jan Norrman in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vallda_-_KMB_-_16000700003334.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
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Image Source: digital image [798-1.TIF] of a 1908 B&W photograph by Sigfrid Gunnäs, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vallda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200035953.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tor Svensson, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 9 September 2006 by Tor Svensson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vallda_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Vallda kyrka [...] dopfunt"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210510036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vallda kyrka [...] dopfunt"
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Image Source: digital image [798-4.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vallda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200035959.jpg] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption; "Dopfunt från Vallda kyrka i norra Halland."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dagjoh, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 5 September 2014 by Dagjoh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vallda01.jpg] [accessed 10 May 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.: 920506F1] [accessed 10 May 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23303VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Vallda kyrka
Church Location: Vallda Kyrkbyväg 8, 434 90 Vallda, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 300 32 35 50
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Halland, Hallands län
Directions to Site: Located off local toad N942, S of county road 158, in Torsås, in the municipality and 4 km W of Kungsbacka, 20-25 km S of Göteborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Historical Region: Fjäre härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Starrkärrsgruppen [SHM]
Church Notes: original church said to have been built on a previous pagan sacrificial site; present church 13thC(?); modified 1662; stone tower replaced earlier belfry in 1765-1770; church renovated 1837, 1901, 1929
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1969) as a baptismal font made of soapstone in the late-13th century; basin (interior and exterior) and base are quatrefoiled in shape; basin has arcade of 16 arches filled with the vegetal motifs characteristic of the Starkärrskolan. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920506F1] as a 'Starrkärrsgruppen' baptismal font made of soapstone in the second half of the 13th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.479328, 12.002317
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 28′ 45.58″ N, 12° 0′ 8.34″ E
UTM: 33V 320279 6374710
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoiled
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
Drainage Notes: no lining proper but the baptismal dish is shaped as one
Diameter (includes rim): 82 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm* / 91 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1969) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920506F1]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Halland, 1969