Mallow No. 1
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00850MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: St. James (C. of I.)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church in 1989
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Notes: present church 1820s, built in the grounds of the much older St. Anne’s Church which still stands as a ruin nearby
Church Address: 115 Main St, Mallow, Co. Cork, P51 HW24, Ireland
Site Location: Cork, Munster, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: Mallow is located off the N20-N72 confluence, 35 km NNW of Cork
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese Cork, Cloyne and Ross
Font Notes:
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OLD ST ANNE's RUINS http://www.megalithicireland.com/St%20Anne%27s%20Church,%20Mallow,%20Cork.html
BOTH CHURCHES https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=180413458
Pike (1989) reports that there are two plain fonts at Mallow St. James', "inspected but not catalogued"
BOTH CHURCHES https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=180413458
Pike (1989) reports that there are two plain fonts at Mallow St. James', "inspected but not catalogued"
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 524366 5776202
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.1358, -8.644
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 8.88″ N, 8° 38′ 38.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown
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, p. 56