Bjornekulla / Björnekulla

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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus?

Scene Description: the SHM entry [cf. FontNotes] notes that the base of this font shares characteristics with some 'Mörarpsgruppen' fonts

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kristina Simonsson / Lunds Stift, 2021

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Kristina Simonsson, in Kringla [https://kringla.nu/kringla/objekt;jsessionid=4D1F6420A8D563D4B1160A6AF8C7FD95?referens=raa/bbr/21400000448279&flik=0] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900519F1] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kristina Simonsson / Lunds Stift, 2021

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Kristina Simonsson, in Kringla [https://kringla.nu/kringla/objekt;jsessionid=4D1F6420A8D563D4B1160A6AF8C7FD95?referens=raa/bbr/21400000448279&flik=0] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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design element - patterns

Scene Description: the SHM entry [cf. FontNotes] notes that the base of this font shares characteristics with some 'Mörarpsgruppen' fonts

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kristina Simonsson / Lunds Stift, 2021

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Kristina Simonsson, in Kringla [https://kringla.nu/kringla/objekt;jsessionid=4D1F6420A8D563D4B1160A6AF8C7FD95?referens=raa/bbr/21400000448279&flik=0] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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information

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

information

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the interior and the centre drain hole

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption; "Björnekulla kyrka är en kyrka i Björnekulla-Västra Broby församling i Åstorp i Sverige."

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Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2011 by David Castor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Björnekulla_kyrka_2.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Björnekulla kyrka [...] Kyrkan från väster med omgivningar." -- the modern church consecrated 1889 replaced the medieval church here

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Image Source: digital image [1623-002.TIF] of an undated [between 1 January 1904 and 31 December 1906] B&W photograph by Oscar Halldin, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Björnekulla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200050000.jpj] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "postcad [...] Åstorp – Björnekulla Kyrka [...] Fotograf: K. E. Rosenqvist [...] Förlag: Anderssons Bokhandel & Rolf Svenssons Cigar & Pappershandel, Åstorp.[...] Övrigt: Frigiven av försvarsstaben: 6004-1957 [...] Date Unknown date (before 1969)"

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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1969 postcard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Åstorp-008.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Björnekulla kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster." -- the modern church consecrated 1889 replaced the medieval church here

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Image Source: digital image [1623-007.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Björnekulla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200050006.jpj] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: " Björnekulla kyrka"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joa222kim, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph 7 Auhust 2007 by Joa222kim [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Björnekulla_kyrka,_Åstorp2.JPG] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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view of church interior - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - reredos

Scene Description: digital image of a photograph by Lennart Karlsson in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950629S3]: Skåne, Björnekulla. Träskulptur av ek / krucifix; mitten av 1200-talet; sydskandinavisk verkstad

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of church interior - reredos

Scene Description: the mid-13thC Crucifix

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Björnekulla kyrka [...] Dopfunt av kalksten, marmorerande målning, före 1250, cuppan senare."

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Image Source: digital image [1623-9.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Lars Tynell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Björnekulla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200050008.jpj] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kristina Simonsson / Lunds Stift, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph by Kristina Simonsson, in Kringla [https://kringla.nu/kringla/objekt;jsessionid=4D1F6420A8D563D4B1160A6AF8C7FD95?referens=raa/bbr/21400000448279&flik=0] [accessed 29 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.: 900519F1] [accessed 29 May 2021]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2024 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 23326BJO
Church/Chapel: Björnekulla kyrka
Church Location: Järnvägsgatan 24B, 265 31 Åstorp, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located off local road M1244 [aka Järnvägsgatan], S of county road 21, and E of highway E4, in the municipality and E of Åstorp, 15 km ENE of Helsingborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Södra Åsbo härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave, by the transept
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mörarps workshop / Mörarpsgruppen / Mörarpsgruppen [base only -- SHM]
Church Notes: medieval church expanded 15thC; again 1788; new church built 1889; renovated 1971-1973
Noted and illustrated in Tynell (1913). In Rydbeck (1936). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900519F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century by a regional workshop; the SHM adds that the base shares characteristics of the 'Mörarpsgruppen', but the basin is of a totally different style; it has been thoroughly cleaned [NB: Tynell had photographed it at a time when it was totally covered in a marbling paint [cf. ImagesArea]]. Åsa Jakobsson & Cissela Olsson's Björnekulla kyrkogård Dokumentation, 2011 [https://regionmuseet.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/R2011_048.pdf] [accessed 29 May 2021] mentions a baptismal font of the 13th century here. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.134914, 12.961442
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 8′ 5.69″ N, 12° 57′ 41.19″ E
UTM: 33V 373313 6222967

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 7 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 59 cm* / **
Basin Depth: 27 cm**
Basin Total Height: 43 cm**
Height of Base: 37 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 46 x 46 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900519F1] / ** BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936
Statens Historiska Museum, Stocholm, Medeltidens bildvärld, 2003. Accessed: 2024-09-03 00:00:00. URL: https://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/sok/avancerad.asp.
Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921