Sodra Hestra / Södra Hestra
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910803F1] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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design element - motifs - sawtooth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910803F1] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles - 4-strand
Scene Description: all around the basin sides, with inserts also of four strands in the centre of the circles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910803F1] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Södra Hestra kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © StaffanTorner, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 2 May 2010 by StaffanTorner [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Södra_Hestra_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: partially showing the medieval baptismal font in the southeast corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1981-008.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Södra_Hestra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200088706.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Södra Hestra kyrkas kyrkosal"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 23 August 2016 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Södra_Hestra_kyrkas_kyrkosal_2016.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Södra Hestra kyrka [...] Teckning av dopfunt, 1200-talets början. Teckningen gjord av Per Vistrand 1880." -- showing the font without the additional wooden lower base that shows up in later photographs](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0220421009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Södra Hestra kyrka [...] Teckning av dopfunt, 1200-talets början. Teckningen gjord av Per Vistrand 1880." -- showing the font without the additional wooden lower base that shows up in later photographs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1981-024.TIF] of an 1880 drawing by Per Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Södra_Hestra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200088750.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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view of font
![Source caption: "Södra Hestra kyrka [...] Dopfunt, 1200-talets början." -- showing the font with the additional wooden lower base at this time in 1911](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0220421010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Södra Hestra kyrka [...] Dopfunt, 1200-talets början." -- showing the font with the additional wooden lower base at this time in 1911
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Image Source: digital image [1981-025.TIF] of a 1911 B&W photograph by Pehr Gunnar Vejde, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Södra_Hestra_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200088755.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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view of font
Scene Description: the wooden lower base is a modern addition and, like the rest of the font, painted to simulate a marbled look
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910803F1] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: Source caption: "Södra Hestra kyrkas dopfunt"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 23 August 2016 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Södra_Hestra_kyrkas_Dopfunt_2016.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the top of the medieval font is visible behind the benches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kent Olsson, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 August 2016 by Kent Olsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Södra_Hestra_kyrkas_kyrkosal_2016.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23883HES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Södra Hestra Kyrka
Church Location: Södra Hestra kyrkby , Kyrkvägen 10, 333 92 Broaryd, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Located off local road F573 [aka Hestravägen], in Broaryd, in the municipality and about 30 km SW of Gislaved,
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Västbo härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, in the SE corner of the nave
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Villstadsgruppen [Borg]
Cognate Fonts: others in that group
Church Notes: early-13thC wooden church replaced by stone church in late-13thC; demolished 1831; present church inaugurated 1835; renovated 1878,
Font Notes:
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Noted in Blomqvist (1929) in his chapter of 'Figurlösa dopfuntar' as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the 12th century. Noted in Hallbäck (1966). Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a baptismal font of the 'Villstadsgruppen' made of sandstone ca. 1200. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910803F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200 in a regional workshop in Västergötland; the stone font and its later wooden lower base are coated in a marbled paint [NB: the lower base was added between 1880 and 1911, as photographs of the period show [cf. ImagesArea]]. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.122083, 13.240556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 7′ 19.5″ N, 13° 14′ 26″ E
UTM: 33V 393475 6332350
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 58 cm* / 59 cm**
Basin Depth: 27.5 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 39 cm*
Height of Base: 26 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 65 cm* / 67 cm** [does not include later addition]
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910803F1]
REFERENCES
Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929
Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966