Kvistofta
Image copyright © Kristina Simonsson / Lunds Stift, 2015
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view of church exterior - porch - painting
Scene Description: Source caption: " Kvistofta kyrka, livets hjul, målning i vapenhuset"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kristina Simonsson / Lunds Stift, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2015 by Kristina Simonsson / Lunds stift [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kvistoftakyrka21500001452666.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
![Source caption: "Kvistofta kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210725035_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kvistofta kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1660-2.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:Kvistofta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200056443.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior in context - south view
![Source caption: "Kvistofta kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210725036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kvistofta kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Guillaume Baviere, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2009 by Guillaume Baviere [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kvistofta_kyrka_2009-07-21.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2021]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
![Source caption: "Kvistofta kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster." -- is the organic-looking object in the foreground, right side, a font?](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210725037_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kvistofta kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster." -- is the organic-looking object in the foreground, right side, a font?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1660-10.TIF] of an undated postcard(?) in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kvistofta_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200056450.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kvistofta kyrka, långhuset mot koret"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kristina Simonsson / Lunds Stift, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2015 by Kristina Simonsson / Lunds stift [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kvistoftakyrka21500001452662.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font in context
Scene Description: the organic-looking object used as font was originally an albaster planter made in Italy for a Russian grand duke's garden; the ship carrying it sank and the object was recovered ; in 1881 it was donated to the church and is now used as baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kristina Simonsson / Lunds Stift, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 13 October 2015 by Kristina Simonsson / Lunds stift [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kvistoftakyrka21500001452662.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
INFORMATION
FontID: 23392KVI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Kvistofta kyrka
Church Location: Ryavägen 200, 260 30 Vallåkra, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located off local road M1361 [aka Ryavägen], 2-3 km WNW of Vallåkra, E of highway E20, in the municipality and 12-13 km SE of Helsingborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Rönnebergs härad, Malmöhus län
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque? / Late Romanesque?
Church Notes: 13thC(?) church; tower added late-medieval period; expanded 1779;
Font Notes:
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Tynell (1913-1921) reports that there was no medieval font in this church at the time, nor was one mentioned in the 1830 inventory. The Heksingborks stadslexikon [https://stadslexikon.helsingborg.se/kvistofta-kyrka/] [accessed 26 July 2021] reports that a 1699 written source did mention a font of carved stone painted red and green in this church [="I kyrkan saknas idag medeltida dopfunt, men en skriftlig källa från 1699 omnämner en dopfunt av uthuggen sten, vilken var röd- och grönmålad", but uses the reference to Tynell who does not mention any 1699 reference. The entry for this church in Kyrkokartan [https://www.kyrkokartan.se/056141/Kvistofta_kyrka] [accessed 26 July 2021] has an interesting story about the modern font here; apparently the present font is made of Italian alabaster and was originally made as an ornament for the garden of a Russian Grand Duke but, when the item was being transported by sea ca. 1870 from Italy to Russia, the ship sank near Rydebäck, and the alabaster object somehow ended up in a new life as baptismal font of Kvistofta kyrka [="Bland interiörerna märks dopfunten som är av italiensk alabaster, ett marmorliknande mineral. Den var ursprungligen avsedd att pryda en rysk storfurstes trädgård. På den långa sjövägen från Italien till Ryssland någon gång på 1870-talet förliste skeppet som fraktade den utanför Rydebäck."] The entry for this church in Skånelands Kyrkor [http://www.aasbo-gen.com/sklk/index.php/Kvistofta_Kyrka] [accessed 26 July 2021] adds that C. Hofreter, of Rydebäck, donated the object to the church in 1881.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.969189, 12.829353
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 58′ 9.08″ N, 12° 49′ 45.67″ E
UTM: 33U 364526 6204778