Carrigrohane

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter’s Church Carrigrohane, seen from the East"

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view of church exterior - northwest view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter’s Church Carrigrohane, seen from the North West"

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter’s Church Carrigrohane, seen from the South East"

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Pike (1989: 27)

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00841CAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter (C. of I.)

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Hill, Carrigrohane, Co. Cork, T12 TX89, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 21 487 7260

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Cork, Munster

Directions to Site: Carrigrohane is located off the N22, now practically a SW suburb of Cork

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross

Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1989 in use inside the new church

Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval

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: present St Peter's is Gothic revival, built in 1854 on the site of an earlier [13thC?] church; new church restored 200 and 2021

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 27) as a medieval font still in use in this church: "It is made of limestone and is square with bevelled corners. It is tripartite, has a central drain, and a hemispherical bowl [i.e., inner well]. The square pedestal has bevelled corners ans is mounted on a square plinth also with bevelled corners. There is no other decoration."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.894444, -8.563333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 40″ N, 8° 33′ 48″ W

UTM: 29U 530048 5749388

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Height of Basin Side: 31.11 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 92.07 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 31.11 x 63.5 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 104 x 104 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Pike (1989: 27)

REFERENCES

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