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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - double arch-head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900717F3] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900717F3] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900717F3] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900717F3] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - spur - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles of the rollo moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900717F3] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Scene Description: the top moulding has visible damage to the left side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carl-Johan Ivarsson, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2016 by Carl-Johan Ivarsson in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/058409/images/58409_77949325] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: each spandrel has a simple motif but they vary
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900717F3] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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design element - patterns - gadrooned or ribbed
Scene Description: one of them has an inser, as seen here in the centre of the row
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carl-Johan Ivarsson, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2016 by Carl-Johan Ivarsson in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/058409/images/58409_77949325] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "Sövde kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210813015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sövde kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."
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Image Source: digital image [1589-2.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:Sövde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200063509.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Sövde kyrka i Skåne."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jorchr, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 September 2010 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sövde_kyrka_2.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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view of church interior - baptismal dish
![Source caption: "Sövde kyrka [...] Dopfat av mässing, mitten av 1600-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210813017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sövde kyrka [...] Dopfat av mässing, mitten av 1600-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [1589-15.TIF] of a 1929 B&W photograph by Erik Andrén, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sövde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200063522.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: " Sövde kyrka i Skåne, interiör."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jorchr, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 18 September 2010 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sövde_kyrka_3.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Sövde kyrka [...] Medeltida dopfunt av sandsten."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210813016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sövde kyrka [...] Medeltida dopfunt av sandsten."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1589-016.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sövde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200063521.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font - east side
Scene Description: the block below the lower base is a later addition
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900717F3] [accessed 13 August 2021]
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view of font in context - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carl-Johan Ivarsson, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2016 by Carl-Johan Ivarsson in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/058409/images/58409_77949325] [accessed 13 August 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 23407SOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sövde kyrka
Church Location: Sövdeborgsvägen 15, 275 96 Sövde, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 416 255 50
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Skåne, Skåne län
Directions to Site: Located off local road M983 [aka Sövdeborgsvägen], on the NE shores of the Sövdesjön, about 5 km E of Blentarp, 25 km NWN of Ystad
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Färs härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bollerupsgruppen [Tynell]
Cognate Fonts: others in that group
Church Notes: 12thC stone church may have had a wooden predecessor on the same site; modified 15thC, late-17th and 19thC
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Tynell (1913-1921) as a baptismal font of the 'Bollerupsgruppen' type, made of sandstone; stands on a later block. Noted in Reutersvärd (1967). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 900717F3] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the first half of the 12th century by a regional workshop. No cover present. Baptismal dish made of brass in the 16th-17th century and decorated with a scene of the Annunciation.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.584722, 13.671667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 35′ 5″ N, 13° 40′ 18″ E
UTM: 33U 416271 6160663
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm* / 64 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm* / 72 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Tynell (1913-1931)
REFERENCES
Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967
Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921