Forsheda
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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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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
![Source caption: "Forsheda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av granit" [NB: badly damaged basin at the time]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0220317022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Forsheda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av granit" [NB: badly damaged basin at the time]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
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 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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - northeast view
![Sourece caption: "Forsheda k[yrk]a"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220317023_compressed.png)
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23828FOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1250?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Forshedagruppen [Borg]
Cognate Fonts: fonts of the same group (Lenhovda, Värnamo, etc.)
Church / Chapel Name: Forsheda Kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the tower space
Church Notes: original wooden chapel replaced by stone church in the 14thC; present church 1866
Church Address: Slättövägen 6, 331 72 Forsheda, Värnamo V, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 370 813 70
Site Location: Småland, Jönköpings län, Sweden, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disused font (the old font is now [2022] disused and stored in the tower space)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 33V 429094 6336088
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.162528, 13.827639
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 9′ 45.1″ N, 13° 49′ 39.5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 122
- Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002, p. 44-45