Lysekil
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Scene Description: the modern font of 1901 with base of 1960 [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph August 2025 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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![the modern font of 1901 with base of 1960 [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1260318022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the modern font of 1901 with base of 1960 [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph August 2025 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - souheast view
Scene Description: "Cathedral in Lysecil"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vitold Muratov, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2018 by Vitold Muratov
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 26233OCZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century (?)
Church / Chapel Name: Lysekils Kyrka
Font Location in Church: disappeared?
Church Wikidata: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysekils_kyrka
Church Notes: first church known here 1545; present church, the 3rd known here, was built of granite in 1901
Church Address: Övre Kyrkogatan 2, 453 30 Lysekil, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 523 29 32 00
Site Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 162, on the W coast, about 40 km W of Uddevalla
Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Svenska Kyrkan [https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/lysekils-pastorat/lysekils-kyrka] [accessed 18 March 2026] and the entry in the Swedish Wikipedia [https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysekils_kyrka] [accessed 18 March 2026] both report the present baptismal font as designed by Ernst Moritz Arndt in 1900 and made from a light granite from Malmö; it was was given a lower base in 1960. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 16th-century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photographs of the present font here
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 642760 6461534
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.27165, 11.43398
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 16′ 17.94″ N, 11° 26′ 2.33″ E