Torpa nr. Varbeg
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view of church exterior - northeast view
![Source caption: "Torpa kyrka, Varbergs kommun." [NB: the tower was built at the east end of the church]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220424027_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torpa kyrka, Varbergs kommun." [NB: the tower was built at the east end of the church]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgangus Mozart, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 8 May 2012 by Wolfgangus Mozart [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torpa_kyrka_(Halland)_2012_f.JPG] [accessed 24 April 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
![Source caption: "Torpa kyrka, Varbergs kommun." [NB: the tower was built at the east end of the church]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220424026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torpa kyrka, Varbergs kommun." [NB: the tower was built at the east end of the church]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgangus Mozart, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 8 May 2012 by Wolfgangus Mozart [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torpa_kyrka_(Halland)_2012_k.JPG] [accessed 24 April 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
![Source caption: "Torpa kyrka [...] Akvarellerad tuschteckning från 1800-talets mitt." [NB: the tower was built at the east end of the church]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0220424025_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torpa kyrka [...] Akvarellerad tuschteckning från 1800-talets mitt." [NB: the tower was built at the east end of the church]
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Image Source: digital image [htha0043] of a 17 November 2014 photograph by Lars Kennerstedt of a mid-19thC watercolour in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torpa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000531778.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2022]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torpa kyrka [...] Dopfuntsskål eller vigvattenssten av mörk granit. Omkring 1300 eller tidigare."
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Image Source: digital image [1972-16.TIF] of a 1918 B&W photograph by Sigfrid Gunnäs, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torpa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200034827.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23894TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Torpa Kyrka
Church Location: Torpa kyrkväg 6, 432 95 Varberg, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 340 64 11 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Halland, Hallands län
Directions to Site: Located off local road N809 [aka Torpavägen], W of county road 41, E of highway E6/E20, in the municipality and about 10 km N of Varberg, about 45 km S of Göteborg
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: 13thC(?) church; may have been connected to Ås kloster; wooden bell tower added at the east end to replace an earlier belfry; restored 1867
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1969) as a baptismal font of the 14th century -only the original granite basin, square with bevelled corners, has survived; the base, also of granite, is a modern replacement. The entry for this church in Kringla Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000448118] [accessed 24 April 2022] notes: "DOPFUNT - I nordvästra hörnet står en dopfunt med medeltida åttasidig cuppa på en sentida fot. Rakhuggen granit med fasade hörn" [NB: the description of the basin as "åttasidig cuppa", i.e., octagonal basin is because it counts the bevelled corners as sides]; it dates the font as "1100-01-01 e.Kr. - 1550-12-31".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.188964, 12.279139
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 11′ 20.27″ N, 12° 16′ 44.9″ E
UTM: 33V 335578 6341703
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Halland, 1969