Killucan / Cill Lucáine
Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
Results: 8 records
B01: design element - patterns - lattice pattern
Scene Description: North side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roe, 1968
Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. XXXIa)
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B02: design element - motifs - leaf - in a circle - 2
Scene Description: east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roe, 1968
Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. XXXIb)
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B03: design element - motifs - scroll work -- cross - saltire -- beaded-tape
Scene Description: South side, left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roe, 1968
Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. XXXIIa)
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B04: design element - motifs - leaf - oak -- cross - saltire - beaded-tape
Scene Description: South side, right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roe, 1968
Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. XXXIIa)
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B05: design element - motifs - plant - in a circle - beaded-tape
Scene Description: West side, left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roe, 1968
Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. XXXIIb)
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B06: design element - patterns - trellis - beaded-tape
Scene Description: West side, right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roe, 1968
Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. XXXIIb)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Image Source: Pike (1989: 11)
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Etchan's Church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 7 May 2006 by Kenneth Hynes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.-Etchans-Church.jpg] [accessed 19 March 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00551KIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1250?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late) [Roe], Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Etchen (C. of I.) [originally from the medieval church]
Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1989 inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Etchen [aka Echen, Ecian, Etchenius]
Church Notes: church ca. 1450; re-built 1803-1815
Church Address: Saint Etchen's Church of Ireland, Glebe, Killucan, Co. Westmeath, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 44 934 8376
Site Location: Westmeath / Iarmhí, Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the R156, N of the N4, 10-12 km E of Mullingar, 25-30 km SW of Athboy, 60-65 km W of Dublin
Additional Comments: recycled font: Pike (1989) reports -probably passing on information from Roe (1968)- that this basin was discovered by the rev. Wm. Falkiner (rector of St. Etchen's, 1892-1910 and member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries) buried in the churchyard; he moved it in the church, reconstructed the base and gave it a cover. The font is square, with an inner circular basin and a central drain; the original pedestal was composed of four constructional columns (reconstructed); all four sides of the basin bear rich and varied abstract decoration executed in very low relief (Pike, 1989). Roe describes the ornamentation as "distinctive and unusual" and finds no "closely comparable instance in Ireland" to which it can be related or compared and she values it as a "very fine font." (Roe, 1968)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Roe (1968: 8, [76]-80 and pl. XXXI, XXXII) as the basin of a baptismal font "said to have been discovered some years ago when work was being done in the churchyard. Thanks to the then rector, the late Reverend W. Falkiner, the vessel was cleaned, furnished with a cover, pedestal and base and restored once more to use." Pike (1989: 11) adds that William Falkiner was rector of St. Etchen's between 1892-1910 and a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries. The font is square, with an inner circular basin and a central drain; the original pedestal was composed of four constructional columns [reconstructed in Falkiner's time]. Roe (ibid.) describes the ornamentation on the four sides of the basin as "distinctive and unusual" and finds no "closely comparable instance in Ireland" to which it can be related or compared and she values it as a "very fine font." Drake (2003: 36) describes this font as "a much more refined and certainly later version of Kilcooly" and goes on to describe the ornamentation on the sides -three of which are diveded into two panels. The entry for this church in the National Inventory of Archiitectural Heritage [https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15312011/saint-etchens-church-killucan-glebe-killucan-westmeath] [accessed 14 March 2023] reports "a medieval font, c.1250 […] which is of archaeological merit" in it
Described and illustrated in Roe (1968: 8, [76]-80 and pl. XXXI, XXXII) as the basin of a baptismal font "said to have been discovered some years ago when work was being done in the churchyard. Thanks to the then rector, the late Reverend W. Falkiner, the vessel was cleaned, furnished with a cover, pedestal and base and restored once more to use." Pike (1989: 11) adds that William Falkiner was rector of St. Etchen's between 1892-1910 and a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries. The font is square, with an inner circular basin and a central drain; the original pedestal was composed of four constructional columns [reconstructed in Falkiner's time]. Roe (ibid.) describes the ornamentation on the four sides of the basin as "distinctive and unusual" and finds no "closely comparable instance in Ireland" to which it can be related or compared and she values it as a "very fine font." Drake (2003: 36) describes this font as "a much more refined and certainly later version of Kilcooly" and goes on to describe the ornamentation on the sides -three of which are diveded into two panels. The entry for this church in the National Inventory of Archiitectural Heritage [https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15312011/saint-etchens-church-killucan-glebe-killucan-westmeath] [accessed 14 March 2023] reports "a medieval font, c.1250 […] which is of archaeological merit" in it
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Rachel Moss, and to Trinity College, Dublin, for the copy of Ms. Pike's work, and to Ms. Joan Pike for her kind permission to reproduce her original drawings.
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 623017 5931039
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.513875, -7.14475
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 30′ 49.95″ N, 7° 8′ 41.1″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Rim Thickness: 3.8 cm (Roe)
Diameter (inside rim): 43.2 cm (Roe)
Basin Depth: 19 cm (Roe)
Height of Basin Side: 26.6 cm (Roe)
Basin Total Height: 34.4 cm (calculated)
Height of Base: 41.8 cm (calculated)
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 26.6 x 51 cm (Roe)
Font Height (less Plinth): 76.2 cm (Pike)
Trapezoidal Basin: 51 x 51 cm (Roe
Notes on Measurements: Roe (1968) & Pike (1989)
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1900
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 36
- Pike, Joan H.K., "Medieval Fonts of Ireland", [Supplied courtesy of The Dept. of the History of Art, Trinity College, Dublin], [Ireland]: [Privately printed], 1989, p. 11
- Roe, Helen M., Medieval Fonts of Meath, Longford, Ireland: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968, p. 8, [77]-80 and pl. XXXI, XXXII