Granna / Gränna

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design element - motifs - round moulding

Scene Description: with a trompe-l'oeuil vegetable pattern on it

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson Xauxa, 2006

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 July 2006 by Håkan Svensson Xauxa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Granna_kyrka_Baptismal_font01.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2022]

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design element - motifs - scroll - 4

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson Xauxa, 2006

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 July 2006 by Håkan Svensson Xauxa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Granna_kyrka_Baptismal_font01.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2022]

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia

Scene Description: atop the lower base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Håkan Svensson Xauxa, 2006

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 July 2006 by Håkan Svensson Xauxa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Granna_kyrka_Baptismal_font01.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2022]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gränna kyrka, Diocese of Växjö, Jönköping, Sweden."

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:Granna_kyrka_View01.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2022]

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "People at the ruins of Gränna Church, destroyed by fire in 1889. The church, from the 12th century, was rebuilt in 1895. Format: Silver gelatin print"

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Image Source: digital image of a 1893 Silver gelatin print by H. Holm, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gränna_Church_after_the_fire_in_1889,_Småland,_Sweden.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gränna kyrka"

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:0919Gränna_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2022]

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view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gränna kyrka [...] Fragment av kalkmålningar i koret från 1400-talets slut, strax efter branden 1889 - ny kyrka 1895. Motiven visar bl a skildringar av helvetesgapet, ansiktsmasker och konsekrationskors. Akvarell troligen av Fredrik Sundbärg från ca 1891."

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Image Source: digital photograph [htsm0085] 4 June 2015 by Lars Kennerstedt of a ca 1891 watercolour probably by Fredrik Sundbärg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gränna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000535033.jpg

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gränna kyrka [...] Interiör most öster. Efter branden 1889."

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Image Source: digital image of a 1989 B&W photograph by Carl Curman, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gränna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200080354.jpg

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gränna kyrka, Sverige 2 juli 2015" -- the top of the font is visible on the north side, to the left of the psalm board

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J 1982, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph 2 July 2015 by J 1982 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gränna_kyrka_2_juli_2015.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2022]

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view of church interior - window - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fönsterinramning av sandsten från Gränna gamla kyrka."

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Image Source: digital image [705-035.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gränna_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200080356.jpg

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gränna kyrka, Diocese of Växjö, Jönköping, Sweden. Baptismal font."

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:Granna_kyrka_Baptismal_font01.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23837GRA
Church/Chapel: Gränna Kyrka
Church Location: Brahegatan, 563 32 Gränna, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off Frahegatan, W of the E4, about 35 km N of Jönköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Date: ca. 1230?
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Grännatypen
Cognate Fonts: Gränna, Finnaryd, etc. [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: stone church 12thC; much modified since; destroyed by fire 1889; re-built 1895
Noted in Blomqvist (1929), who uses it to name a group of somewhat similar 13th-century fonts under the heading 'Grännatypen'. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a baptismal font made of granite ca. 1230; like Blmqvist, Borg classes it in its own group, Grännagruppen. Not found in the SHM database.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.0203, 14.4653
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 1′ 13.08″ N, 14° 27′ 55.08″ E
UTM: 33V 468412 6431095

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 33 cm*
Height of Base: 27 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002)

REFERENCES

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