Dannas / Dannäs
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dannäs kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.Foto, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 April 2009 by L.G.Foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0984Dannäs_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 13 September 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dannäs kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.Foto, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2009 by L.G.Foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0985Dannäs_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 13 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F1] [accessed 13 September 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23439DAN
Church/Chapel: Dannäs kyrka
Church Location: Dannäs kyrkby, 331 72 Forsheda, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 370 813 70
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off local road F519, in the municipality and about 15 km S of Forsheda
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Västbo härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Torskingegruppen (Borg)
Cognate Fonts: fonts of the same group (Tr
Church Notes: 13thC church; extended and tower added 1813; restored 1888; modified again 1942;
Noted in Blomqvist (1929) as a 13th-cebtury font with a granite basin in his section on 'Figurlösa' fonts. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F1] as the basin of a baptismal font made of granite in the 13th century by a regional workshop; the base is a later addition. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a granite font of the 'Torskingegruppen' dated ca. 1200 with a central drain hole in the basin [NB: Borg (ibid.) reports a central drain but his drawings do not show a drain at all]. The tub-shaped basin appears to have a now faint moulding at the upper rim. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
57.0607,
13.8482
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
57° 3′ 38.52″ N,
13° 50′ 53.52″ E
UTM: 33V 430146 6324732
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm* / 72 cm**
Basin Depth: 29 cm**
Height of Basin Side: 44 cm**
Basin Total Height: 64 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F1] / ** Borg (2002)
