Bararyd / Båraryd

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910621F4] [accessed 12 September 2021]

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design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles - 4-strand

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910621F4] [accessed 12 September 2021]

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Båraryds kyrka"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 August 2018 by Kent Olsson] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Båraryds_kyrka_2018.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Båraryds kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster." -- showing the top of the medieval font at the far [east] end of the right [south] bank of benches

Image Source: digital image [2248-008.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Båraryds_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200069289.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Båraryds kyrka [...] Interiör mot väster." -- showing the top of the medieval font in the bottom left corner of the image

Image Source: digital image [2248-004.TIF] of a 1929 B&W photograph by M. Erichs, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Båraryds_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200069285.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Båraryds kyrka [...] Dopfunt av röd sandsten."

Image Source: digital image [2248-017.TIF] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Pehr Gunnar Vejde, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Båraryds_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200069298.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: monolithic font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910621F4] [accessed 12 September 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23436BAR

Church/Chapel: Båraryds kyrka

Church Location: Båraryd Lilla 1, 332 92 Gislaved, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 371 981 56

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Småland, Jönköpings län

Directions to Site: Located N of county road 27, W of 26, in the municipality and 5 km N of Gislaved

Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift

Historical Region: Västbo härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Villstadsgruppen / Villstadtypen [Blomqvist]

Cognate Fonts: Villstad, etc.

Church Notes: there may have been a church here as early as 1107, a date carved in an old beam from the demolished medieval church; later church of the 13thC much enlarged and modified 1776; present stone church consecrated 1882; renovated 1968

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Noted in Blomqvist (1929) as a Villstadtypen font, in his section on 'Figurlösa' fonts. Noted in Hallbäck (1966). Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200, in the 'Villstadsgruppen', with cognate fonts in that group. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910621F4] as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca, 1200 by a regional workshop / Västergötland, an exceptionally well-made font with thin sides carved from a single block. No cover present. Baptismal dish of brass from 1946.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.346558, 13.524758

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 20′ 47.61″ N, 13° 31′ 29.13″ E

UTM: 33V 411221 6356927

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: 1

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 62 cm* / **

Basin Depth: 26 cm*

Basin Total Height: 42 cm*

Height of Base: 39 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm* / **

Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910621F4]

REFERENCES

Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966