Killucan / Cill Lucáine

Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
Results: 8 records
B01: design element - patterns - lattice pattern
B02: design element - motifs - leaf - in a circle - 2
B03: design element - motifs - scroll work -- cross - saltire -- beaded-tape
B04: design element - motifs - leaf - oak -- cross - saltire - beaded-tape
B05: design element - motifs - plant - in a circle - beaded-tape
B06: design element - patterns - trellis - beaded-tape
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
FontID: 00551KIL
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Etchen (C. of I.) [originally from the medieval church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Etchen [aka Echen, Ecian, Etchenius]
Church Location: Saint Etchen's Church of Ireland, Glebe, Killucan, Co. Westmeath, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 44 934 8376
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Westmeath / Iarmhí, Leinster
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
Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1989 inside the church
Date: ca. 1250?
Century and Period: 13th century (late) [Roe], Late Romanesque
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.
Church Notes: church ca. 1450; re-built 1803-1815
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
GET EXT PIC https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.-Etchans-Church.jpg
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
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.513875,
-7.14475
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 30′ 49.95″ N,
7° 8′ 41.1″ W
UTM: 29U 623017 5931039
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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
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
Roe, Helen M., Medieval Fonts of Meath, Longford, Ireland: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968