Tangerasa / Tångeråsa

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view of church exterior in context - belfry

Scene Description: Source caption: "Klockstapel Tångeråsa kyrka, byggd 1659."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janee, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 14 May 2015 by Janee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KlockstapelTångeråsa.JPG] [accessed 24 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tångeråsa kyrka [...] Kyrkan från nordväst."
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Image Source: digital image [3358-9.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Samuel Lindskog, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tångeråsa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200048334.jpg] [accessed 24 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tångeråsa kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."
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Image Source: digital image [3358-6.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Samuel Lindskog, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tångeråsa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200048330.jpg] [accessed 24 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: " En av Sveriges äldsta träkyrkor"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pstromberg, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 26 April 2020 by Pstromberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tångeråsa_Kyrka_0426.jpg] [accessed 24 May 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tångeråsa kyrka från 1290-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janee, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 14 May 2015 by Janee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tångeråsakyrka2.JPG] [accessed 24 May 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tångeråsa kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster." -- showing the medieval stone font in it, by the foot of the pulpit stairs
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Image Source: digital image [3358-17.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Samuel Lindskog, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tångeråsa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200048347.jpg] [accessed 24 May 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tångeråsa medieval wooden church, Örebro län." -- the medieval stone font is partially visible in the right, between the altar and the pulpit stairs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexandru Baboş Albabos, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 25 June 2005 by Alexandru Baboş Albabos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tångeråsa_kyrka_mot_koret.jpg] [accessed 24 May 2021]
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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tångeråsa medieval wooden church, Örebro län."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexandru Baboş Albabos, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 25 June 2005 by Alexandru Baboş Albabos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tångeråsa_kyrka_skepet.jpg] [accessed 24 May 2021]
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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption; "Dopfunt i Tångeråsa kyrka."
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Herman Hofberg's Nerikes gamla minnen: ett bidrag till fäderneslandets fornkännedom, konst-och odlings-historia (Örebro: A. Bohlin, 1868) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nerikes_gamla_minnen_150a.jpg] [accessed 24 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.: 930802F3] [accessed 24 May 2021]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 23319TAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Tångeråsa kyrka
Church Location: Tångeråsa 1, 716 91 Fjugesta, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 19 15 45 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Närke, Örebro län
Directions to Site: Located off local road T520, 8 km SSW of Fjugesta, in the municipality of Lekeberg, about 40 km SW of Örebro
Ecclesiastic Region: Strängnäs stift
Historical Region: Edsbergs härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Romanesque
Church Notes: said to be one of the oldest wooden churches in the world; oldest part 1290s(?); modified 14th, 15th, 19thC; wooden belfry 1659
Font Notes:
Illustrated in Herman Hofberg's Nerikes gamla minnen (1868). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930802F3] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the first half of the 13th century by a regional workshop [="mellansvensk verkstad"]. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.109722, 14.806944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 6′ 35″ N, 14° 48′ 25″ E
UTM: 33V 488944 6552286

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining -- upper drain hole diameter=13 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930802F3]