Cloyne No. 1 / Cluain

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "North view of St. Colman's Cathedral [...] St. Colman's Cathedral, Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2015 by Andreas F. Borchert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cloyne_St._Colman's_Cathedral_N_2015_08_27.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Choir, looking east. St. Colman's Cathedral, Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2015 by Andreas F. Borchert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cloyne_St._Colman's_Cathedral_Choir_2015_08_27.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2023]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nave [...] St. Colman's Cathedral, Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2015 by Andreas F. Borchert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cloyne_St._Colman's_Cathedral_Nave_2015_08_27.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2023]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Pike (1989: 32)

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

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph in James Hundt / Foresight Architects 9 March 2021 [https://foresightarch.com/st-colmans-cathedral-cloyne-co-cork/] [accessed 26 April 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00842CLO

Church/Chapel: Cathedral of St. Colman (C. of I.) / Ard-Eaglais Naomh Colmán, Cluain

Church Patron Saints: St. Colman

Church Location: Church St, Malapardas, Cloyne, Co. Cork, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 21 463 7913

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Cork, Munster

Directions to Site: Cloyne is located off the R631-R629 crossroads, S of the N25, about 16 km ESE of Cork

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross

Font Location in Church: [unknown -- not in use]

Century and Period: 13th 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: church of ca. 1280; modified /restored 1642, 1705, 1774-1776, 1856, 1893-1894;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A font located in an "intercolumnation" of the south aisle is described in Windele (1849): "the font, a square stone basin, resting on a short column, and pedestal of similar form, without inscription or ornament." This may be the same one described and illustrated in Pike (1989), who encountered three baptismal fonts at St. Colman's, the "third font, in use, of a later period, is not Medieval. Of the Medieval fonts, the second font, made of limestone with a central drain, is square, bevelled, and grooved. There is no other decoration." Pike's illustration shows the square basin raised on a plain square pedestal base and a square graded lower base. The entry for this church in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage [https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20826015/saint-colmans-cathedral-church-street-townparks-cloyne-cork] [accessed 26 April 2023] reports an early carved limestone font in it. The entry for this church in James Hundt / Foresight Architects 9 March 2021 [https://foresightarch.com/st-colmans-cathedral-cloyne-co-cork/] [accessed 26 April 2023] mentions "a damaged pre-Norman font off in the corner" of the nave [cf. Index entries for Cloyne Nos. 1, 3 for the other two fonts in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.861719, -8.119362

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 42.19″ N, 8° 7′ 9.7″ W

UTM: 29U 560642 5746025

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Height of Basin Side: 30.48 cm*

Basin Total Height: 45.72 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 116.84 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 71.12 x 71.12 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Pike (1989: 32)

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

Windele, J., Historical and descriptive notices of the city of Cork and its vecinity […], Cork: Bradford & Co., 1849