Stroja / Ströja

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

on the base of the font, seen here upside-down in its role as sundial
Scene Description: on the base of the font, seen here upside-down in its role as sundial

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tanzania, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 September 2020 by Tanzania [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jönköping_Municipality_-_Brahekyrkan_-_20150103114551.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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design element - motifs - scallop

large ones, two per side of the square base, on the font seen here upside down in its role as sundial
Scene Description: large ones, two per side of the square base, on the font seen here upside down in its role as sundial

design element - motifs - semicircle

forming cushion-capital panels on the side of the basin
Scene Description: forming cushion-capital panels on the side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tanzania, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 September 2020 by Tanzania [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jönköping_Municipality_-_Brahekyrkan_-_20150103114551.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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view of church exterior - belfry

Source caption; "Brahekyrkan, Visingsö, Sweden. Bell tower."
Scene Description: Source caption; "Brahekyrkan, Visingsö, Sweden. Bell tower."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 10 July 2006 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brahekyrkan_bell_tower01.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.foto, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 10 April 2009 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0187Brahekyrkan.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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view of church interior - baptismal dish

Source caption: "Brahekyrkan [...] Dopskål med syndafallsmotiv i botten, djur- och växtdekorationer runtom."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Brahekyrkan [...] Dopskål med syndafallsmotiv i botten, djur- och växtdekorationer runtom."
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Image Source: digital image [804-076.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brahekyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200090281.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Source caption: " Jönköping Municipality, Brahekyrkan."
Scene Description: Source caption: " Jönköping Municipality, Brahekyrkan."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tanzania, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 30 September 2020 by Tanzania [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jönköping_Municipality_-_Brahekyrkan_-_20150103114551.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Spurce caption: "Brahekyrkan on Visingö, Initerior view, nave"
Scene Description: Spurce caption: "Brahekyrkan on Visingö, Initerior view, nave"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikimalte, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2014 by Wikimalte [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brahekyrkan_Nave.JPG] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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view of church interior - sacristy - door

Source caption: "Brahekyrkan [...] Sakristiedörren, järnbeslagen, 1100-tal, troligen tidigare i Ströja kyrka som ingångsdörr."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Brahekyrkan [...] Sakristiedörren, järnbeslagen, 1100-tal, troligen tidigare i Ströja kyrka som ingångsdörr."
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Image Source: digital image [804-291.TIF] of a 1941 B&W photograph by Harald Faith-Ell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brahekyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200090917.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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view of church interior - sacristy - door - detail

Source caption: "Brahekyrkan [...] Sakristiedörren, järnbeslagen, 1100-tal, troligen tidigare i Ströja kyrka som ingångsdörr, detalj av järnbeslag med runinskrift."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Brahekyrkan [...] Sakristiedörren, järnbeslagen, 1100-tal, troligen tidigare i Ströja kyrka som ingångsdörr, detalj av järnbeslag med runinskrift."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [804-292.TIF] of a 1941 B&W photograph by Harald Faith-Ell, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brahekyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200090918.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing by E. Amundson (A.T.A.), reproduced in Blomqvist (1929: fig. 30, p. 45
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Borg, 2002
Image Source: digital image of a page in Borg (2002: 27)
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view of font and baptismal dish in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tanzania, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 September 2020 by Tanzania [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jönköping_Municipality_-_Brahekyrkan_-_20150103114551.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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view of font in context

Source caption: "Visingsö, Brahekyrkan [...] Medeltida dopfunt, kvadratisk kuppa med avfasade hörn nedtill, stående på kyrkogården." [NB: the medieval font is standing upside-down, disguised as a sundial].
Scene Description: Source caption: "Visingsö, Brahekyrkan [...] Medeltida dopfunt, kvadratisk kuppa med avfasade hörn nedtill, stående på kyrkogården." [NB: the medieval font is standing upside-down, disguised as a sundial].
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Image Source: digital image [804-074.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Lindberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Visingsö,_Brahekyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200090279.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font in context

Source caption: "Brahekyrkan [...] Medeltida dopfunt, kvadratisk kuppa med avfasade hörn nedtill."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Brahekyrkan [...] Medeltida dopfunt, kvadratisk kuppa med avfasade hörn nedtill."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [804-073.TIF] of a 1906 B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brahekyrkan_-_KMB_-_16000200090278.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font in context

Source caption: "1100t Specifika inventarier – dopfunt. Kyrkans dopfunt är medeltida. (JLST)"
Scene Description: Source caption: "1100t Specifika inventarier – dopfunt. Kyrkans dopfunt är medeltida. (JLST)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattias Sörensen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in Mattias Sörensen's Brahekyrkan: Visingsö församling i Jönköpings kommun, Jönköpings län, Växjö stift, in the JÖNKÖPINGS LÄNS MUSEUM Byggnadsvårdsrapport 2006:4 [https://jonkopingslansmuseum.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Brahekyrkan.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2022]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 23826STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ströja Kyrka / Brahekyrka
Church Location: Brahekyrkan 1, 560 34 Visingsö, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off local road F1001, 1-2 km SE of Visingsö, on the island of the same name in Lake Vättern, in the municipality of Jönköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Date: 1160s? / ca. 1250?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Finnvider [Blomqvist]
Church Notes: 12thC [1135-1155?] church; mostly demolished in the 1600s and replaced by Brahekyrka
Font Notes:
Blomqvist (1929) notes and illustrates a mid-12th century baptismal font of the 'Finnvider' group, a cushion-capital shaped basin on a round-to-square base. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a baptismal font of the 'Finnvodergruppen' made of sandstone ca. 1250. Described and illustrated in Mattias Sörensen's Brahekyrkan: Visingsö församling i Jönköpings kommun, Jönköpings län, Växjö stift, in the JÖNKÖPINGS LÄNS MUSEUM Byggnadsvårdsrapport 2006:4 [https://jonkopingslansmuseum.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Brahekyrkan.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2022] among objects moved from the medieval Ströja church to the re-built Brahekyrka, the baptismal font made of sandstone in the 12th century. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.034972, 14.34325
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 2′ 5.9″ N, 14° 20′ 35.7″ E
UTM: 33V 461218 6432792

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*
Basin Depth: 26 cm*
Basin Total Height: 41 cm*
Height of Base: 50 cm* [33+17]
Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 65 x 65 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 58 x 58 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002)

REFERENCES

Blomqvist, Ragnar, "Studier i Smälands romanska stenkonst", IV, 1929
Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002