Meigle / Meagle / Mìgeil

Results: 16 records

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B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: Christ on the cross; alone, no other figures

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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B02: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - scourge, seamless robe, dice

Scene Description: coat/tunic in the centre; three dice (above and below); one scourge below each sleeve

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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B03: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - with cross

Scene Description: one foot out of the tomb; Christ is nimbed; no banner on the tall cross

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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B04: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - cross, crown of thorns

Scene Description: the crown of thorns looks like a wreath hanging from the cross

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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B05: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - heart, feet, hands

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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B06: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - flagellation post, rope, crowing cock

Scene Description: the cock stands atop the pillar; the rope is wrapped on it

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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B07: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - lance, sponge. ladder

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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B08: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - three nails, hammer

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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B09: design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - 8

Scene Description: each containing one of the Passion symbols

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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B10: design element - motifs - plant

Scene Description: a cluster of them as foliage in the spandrels

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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BS01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897: v. III, fig. 1480)

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view of basin

Scene Description: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897): three sides

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897: v. III, fig. 1480)

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view of basin

Scene Description: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897): three other sides

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897: v. III, fig. 1480)

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: ""Meigle church font bowl, showing faces on which the Resurrection and the Instruments of the Passion are depicted"

Image Source: digital image in Scottish Medieval Parish Churches: The Evidence from the Dioceses of Dunblane and Dunkeld, by Richard Fawcett, Richard Oram and Julian Luxford, in The Antiquaries Journal, 90, 2010,pp261–98 r The Society of Antiquaries of London, 2010 -- doi:10.1017⁄s0003581509990436 [accessed 16 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Meigle Church. On the site of a turf church erected by Columban missionaries around 606 AD. This building dates from 1870 AD. The previous church built in 1793 AD burned down on 28 March 1869. The church before that dated from 1431 AD. Folklore claims the mound on the left of the path to be the grave mound of Vanora (Queen Guinevere)"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 July 2010 by Bob Embleton [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/19469] [accessed 16 February 2023]

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view of font - plan, elevation and section

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Walker (1887: 441)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00387MEI

Church/Chapel: Meigle Parish Church [cf. FontNotes]

Church Location: Dundee Rd, Meigle, Blairgowrie PH12 8SB, Scotland, United Kingdom

Country Name: Scotland

Location: Perth & Kinross

Directions to Site: Located off the B954 , just S of the A94, about 25 km WSW of Forfar, about the same distance NNW of Dundee

Historical Region: North Ayrshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 16th century, Gothic

Cognate Fonts: Auchtherhose? [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: The church was rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century -according to MacGibbon & Ross.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Walker (1887: 440) as "a late bowl of considerable interest. It is octagonal with a circular orifice [i.e., basin well] and bottom drain. The sides of the octagon are panelled with small engaged shafts, having shafts, bands and bases, and moulded trefoil heads ornamented with crockets. The panels are charged with the following: -1. The Crucifixion. 2. The Seamless Coat and Scourges. 3. The Ladder, crossed saltirewise, with the spear, reed, and sponge. 4. The three Nails and Hammer. 5. The Cross and Crown of Thorns. 6. The Cock, Pillar, and Rope. 7. The Pierced Hands, Feet, and Heart. 8. The Resurrection. The Crucifixion and Resurrection occupy the whole field of their respective panels; the others are cut on shields of different shapes." Described and illustrated in MacGibbon & Cross (1896-1897: v. III, p. 517-518 and fig. 1480, 1481) as a baptismal font that was found "out of the rubbish" of the old demolished church at the beginning of the 19th century; it was then "erected on a pedestal in the minister's garden" where "it remained for a time, but when an Episcopal chapel was built, the font was removed into it, and is now [i.e., 1890s] in use there." The octagonal basin (the base is not described ) ornamented with an arcade of pointed arches, each containg a scene or symbol related to the Passion of Christ: 1)Crucifixion: Christ on the cross, without other figures; 2)shield containing tunic, scourges and dice; 3)Resurrection: haloed Christ has one leg out of the tomb, holds a crozier on his left hand while the right is raised (in benediction?); 4)shield with a cross and crown of thorns (?); 5)shield with heart in the centre, hands on the upper corners and feet on the lower; 6)oval frame includes the pillar of the scourging with the cock on top, and a rope loose around it; 7)[not illustrated] "the ladder and the spear, reed, and sponge arranged saltierwise" (ibid.); 8)"the three nails and the hammer" (ibid.); the columns of the arcade are shaped lice fasces or bundled branches which open up at top forming the arch proper and filling the spandrels with their foliage. The basin shows some damage but it appears minor. The underbowl is chamfered and plain, still octagonal, and it is obviously meant to be supported on an octagonal pedestal (not illustrated or recorded}. MacGibbon & Ross (ibid.) add that "these sculptures are all well preserved and well excuted, but whether of native workmanship or not it is impossible to say." Noted and illustrated in Fawcett, Oram and Luxford, in The Antiquaries Journal, 90, 2010,pp261–98 r The Society of Antiquaries of London, 2010 -- doi:10.1017⁄s0003581509990436. First published online 24 February 2010: "The finest font bowl within our study area is at Meigle, where the eight panels are decorated with low-relief scenes of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, together with depictions of the instruments of the Passion […] A description suggests that the font at Auchterhouse may have been of similarly high quality, though only its base now survives. Simpler fonts are to be seen at Aberdour, Blair, Kilbryde and Forteviot, while at Madderty the font basin has been cut in half and mounted on the gate piers at the entrance to the churchyard. Perhaps a little perversely, with the enthusiasm for returning fonts to churches that came with growing antiquarian interest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there appear to be a number of cases of domestic mortars being introduced into churches on the mistaken assumption that they were fonts. This is evidently the case at Ardeonaig, Balquhidder, Dull, Fortinga ll, Killin and Strathfillan; some of these are quite carefully worked, but without the drain that would be expected in a font, while others are little more than boulders into which a basin has been hollowed."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.58752, -3.16184

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 35′ 15.07″ N, 3° 9′ 42.62″ W

UTM: 30V 490060 6271484

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one [base not recorded]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) [base not recorded]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 52.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 67.5 cm*

Basin Depth: 22.5 cm*

Basin Total Height: 46.25 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897: v. III, 518) / ** Walker (1887) [NB: Walker's other measurements vary slightly, but not significantly from McGib...]

REFERENCES

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

MacGibbon, David, Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland: from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1896-1897

Walker, J. Russell, "Scottish Baptismal Fonts", 21 or N.S. 9, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1887, pp. 346-448; r["References"]