Balaryd / Bälaryd
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F2] [accessed 12 September 2021]
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design element - motifs - foliage
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F2] [accessed 12 September 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.: 910701F2] [accessed 12 September 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.: 910701F2] [accessed 12 September 2021]
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view of church exterior - information sign - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tanzania, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 22 September 2012 by Tanzania [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bälaryds_kyrka_från_sidan_4.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tanzania, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 22 September 2012 by Tanzania [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bälaryds_kyrka_från_sidan_2.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
![Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka" -- with county road 132 [aka Anebyvägen] running left-right behind the church](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210912020_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka" -- with county road 132 [aka Anebyvägen] running left-right behind the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.Foto, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 22 April 2009 by L.G.Foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0250Bälaryds_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210912023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster."
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Image Source: digital image [2559-007.TIF] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bälaryds_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200069423.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210912018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
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Image Source: digital image [2559-012.TIF] of a 1910 B&W photograph by Pehr Gunnar Vejde, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bälaryds_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200069428.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210912019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bälaryds kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten."
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Image Source: digital image [2559-013.TIF] of a 1921 B&W photograph by Tord O:son Nordberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bälaryds_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200069429.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F2] [accessed 12 September 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23437BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Bälaryds kyrka
Church Location: Bälaryds kykby, 578 92 Aneby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 380 412 25
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off county road 132 [aka Anebyvägen], in the municipality and 5 km WSW of Aneby, about 30 km W of Jönköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Historical Region: Tveta härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, S side
Date: ca. 1230?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Grännatypen, Figurlösa [Blomqvist]
Cognate Fonts: Gränna
Church Notes: 13thC church; modified in the later medieval period; tower added 17thC; modified and tower extended 18thC; later modifications in 19th and 20thC
Font Notes:
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Noted in Blomqvist (1929) as a Grännatypen font, in his section on 'Figurlösa' fonts, somewhat similar to the font at Gränna. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002), who matches Blomqvist attribution and dates the font ca. 1230. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the first half of the 13th century by a regional workshop. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.815667, 14.747167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 48′ 56.4″ N, 14° 44′ 49.8″ E
UTM: 33V 484979 6408216
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68.5 cm* / 69 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 32 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm* / 98 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910701F2
REFERENCES
Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929
Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002