Uppakra / Uppåkra

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950627F3] [accessed 20 August 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Uppåkra kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster." -- both medieval fonts are partly visible in this image: the font from the old church is partly visible in the north [left] transept, next to a chair; the font originally from Flackarp is partially visible in the south [right] transept, to the right of the large black heater

Image Source: digital image [1434-5.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uppåkra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200064266.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Uppåkra kyrka [...] Dopfunt. Ursprungligen i Flackarps kyrka." -- the medieval font originally from the demolished church of nearby Flackarp, now in the new parish church of Uppåkra

Image Source: digital image [1434-6.TIF] of an undated [ca. 1913?] B&W photograph by Lars Tynell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uppåkra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200064267.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950627F3] [accessed 20 August 2021]

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view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Uppåkra kyrka [...] Dopfunt och dopfat." -- the baptismal font originally from the demolished medieval church of Uppåkra, now in the new church

Image Source: digital image [1434-7.TIF] of an undated [ca. 1936?] B&W photograph by Monica Rydbeck, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uppåkra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200064268.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2021]

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view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal font from sv:Uppåkra kyrka, Sweden." -- the baptismal font originally from the demolished medieval church of Uppåkra, now in the new church

Image Source: digital photograph 8 July 2009 by Hedning [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uppåkra_kyrka_dopfunt.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the medieval font originally from the demolished church of nearby Flackarp, now in the new parish church of Uppåkra

Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2020 by Geleja, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/057795/Uppåkra_kyrka] [accessed 20 August 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the baptismal font originally from the demolished medieval church of Uppåkra, now in the new church

Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2020 by Geleja, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/057795/Uppåkra_kyrka] [accessed 20 August 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the baptismal font originally from the demolished medieval church of Uppåkra, now in the new church

Image Source: digital photograph by Carl-Johan Ivarsson, in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/057795/Uppåkra_kyrka] [accessed 20 August 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23413UPP

Church/Chapel: Uppåkra kyrka

Church Location: Gamla Trelleborgsvägen 310, 245 93 Staffanstorp, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 40 46 13 16

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Skåne, Skåne län

Directions to Site: Located off local road M882, just S of highway E22, in the municipality and about 5 km NNW of Staffanstorp, about the same distance SW of Lund

Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift

Historical Region: Bara härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, in the N transept

Date: ca. 1200? [basin only]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Church Notes: wooden church believed to have existed around the same site of the present church in the Viking period; an 'encolpion' shaped as a cross believed to have belonged to that early church; later church with nave and tower in the 12thC; tower collapsed 1728; church restored 1741; old church demolished and new church built 1864; new church restored 1930s

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The entry for Uppåkra inTynell (1913-1921) reports that the font font from its medieval church is missing, and that the only related object in the 1830 inventory is a baptismal dish; the entry gives a reference to an unknown church in the same page, a reference to the basin of a sandstone font found in a farm in nearby Hunnerup; that object is described as having been moved to the garden of Lund's hospital [cf. SHM entry infra]. Monica Rydbeck took a photograph of the Uppåkra font [cf. ImagesArea, ImageFileNo. 0210820005] but does not mention it in her 1936 book. A new church replaced the demolished medieval one in approximately the same site; the new church has two medieval fonts: one, now on the south side, from nearby Flackarp [cf. BSI entry] and another, now on the north side, from the demolished medieval church at Uppåkra. The font said to be from the earlier church here or to have been found in a Hunnerup farm and later moved to Lund Hospital [cf. Tynell supra] is noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950627F3] as the basin of a font made of sandstone ca. 1200 by a regional workshop; the SHM entry reports the granite base as a modern replacement, and cites Tynell's source and past locations. No cover present. Early-18th century baptismal dish.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.666389, 13.171111

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 39′ 59″ N, 13° 10′ 16″ E

UTM: 33U 384963 6170467

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone [basin only]

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm* / 67 cm**

Basin Total Height: 43 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Tynell (1913-1921) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950627F3]

REFERENCES

Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921