Forsheda

Image copyright © Karl Berger, 2022

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view of church exterior - northeast view - detail

Scene Description: Sourece caption: "Forsheda kyrka"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2011 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forsheda.jpg] [accessed 17 March 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Sourece caption: "Forsheda k[yrk]a"

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:Forsheda_kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 17 March 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Forsheda kyrkas kyrkosal"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph 20 August 2014 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forsheda_kyrkas_kyrkosal_2014.jpg] [accessed 17 March 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Forsheda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av granit" [NB: badly damaged basin at the time]

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Image Source: digital image [2025-002.TIF] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Pehr Gunnar Vejde, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forsheda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200080076.jpg] [accessed 17 March 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font in use, designed by Bent Jörgen Jörgensen for the 1950s renovation of the church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn, in Kyrkokartan [https://www.kyrkokartan.se/055808/images/55808_81476733] [accessed 17 March 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: the medieval font, now disused in the tower space

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Karl Berger, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph by Karl Berger, in Kyrkokartan [https://www.kyrkokartan.se/055808/images/55808_81476733] [accessed 17 March 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23828FOR
Church/Chapel: Forsheda Kyrka
Church Location: Slättövägen 6, 331 72 Forsheda, Värnamo V, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 370 813 70
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off local road F519 [aka Dannäswägen],S of road 27, in the municipality and 12-13 km W of Värnamo
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Västbo härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the tower space
Date: ca. 1250?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Forshedagruppen [Borg]
Cognate Fonts: fonts of the same group (Lenhovda, Värnamo, etc.)
Church Notes: original wooden chapel replaced by stone church in the 14thC; present church 1866
Baptismal font included in Blomqvist's chapter on 'Figurlösa dopfuntar' (1929); it consists of a bucket-shaped basin with a large horizontal crack that splitted it into two [now restored], raised on a cylinrical pedestal base; all of it plain. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a font of the 'Forshedagruppen' made of granite ca. 1250. No cover present. The modern font in use in this church was designed by Bent Jörgen Jörgensen for the 1950s renovation of the church. The medieval font is now [2022] stored in the tower space.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.162528, 13.827639
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 9′ 45.1″ N, 13° 49′ 39.5″ E
UTM: 33V 429094 6336088

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 9.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm*
Basin Depth: 28 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 36 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43 cm* [36+7]
Height of Base: 35 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm*

REFERENCES

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