Lemnhult

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Lemnhults [nua] kyrka. Exteriör från öster."

Image Source: digital photograph 11 July 2008 by Bernt Fransson,Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemnhults_kyrka_0001.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - ruins

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lemnhults [gamla] kyrka"

Image Source: digital photograph 20 April 2009 by L.G.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0841Lemnhult_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lemnhults [gamla] kyrka [...] Foto av teckning av kyrkan mot söder. Ur Nils Isak Löfgren Teckn. av kyrkor."

Image Source: digital image [2312-005.TIF] of a 1942 B&W photograph of a drawing by Nils Isak Löfgren, in the [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemnhults_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200084129.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2022]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: Source caption: " Lemnhults [nua] kyrka. Interiör ."

Image Source: digital photograph 18 May 2012 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemnhults_kyrka_interiör06.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2022]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lemnhults kyrka [...] Gamla kyrkans ruiner."

Image Source: digital image [2312-016.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Erik Lundberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemnhults_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200084147.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2022]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font - fragment

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W illustration in Borg (2002)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font in context

Scene Description: the 1938 baptismal font by Theodor Karlsson, of Virserum, in side the modern church

Image Source: digital photograph in Robin Gullbrandsson's Lemnhults kyrka, in Jönköpings Läns Museum, Byggnadsvårdsrapport 2006:81 [https://jonkopingslansmuseum.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Lemnhult-ka.pdf] [accessed 30 March 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23855LEM

Object Type: Baptismal Font2 (fragment)

Church/Chapel: Lemnhults Kyrkoruin

Church Location: [Address & coordinates for the old church ruins] Lemnhult 7, 570 10 Korsberga, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 383 925 40

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Småland, Jönköpings län

Directions to Site: Located E of road 28 [aka Växjövägen], 8-9 km E of Korsberga, about 15 km SE of Vetlanda. The ruins of the old church are located off local road F776, SE of the modern replacement church

Historical Region: Östra härad

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early Gothic

Church Notes: 14thC(?) church with detached belfry; modified 1693 and 1752; destroyed by fire 1856

Font Notes: Click to view

Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as fragments of a baptismal font made of sandstone in the 13th century; Borg (ibid.) gives the location of the fragments as a wooden building located in the ruins of the old church. [NB: the present font in use in the new church was made in by Theodor Karlsson, of Virserum]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.288056, 15.267222

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 17′ 17″ N, 15° 16′ 2″ E

UTM: 33V 516108 6349483

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: [fragments]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002