Mallow No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 00850MAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: St. James (C. of I.)

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: 115 Main St, Mallow, Co. Cork, P51 HW24, Ireland

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Cork, Munster

Directions to Site: Mallow is located off the N20-N72 confluence, 35 km NNW of Cork

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese Cork, Cloyne and Ross

Font Location in Church: Inside the church in 1989

Church Notes: present church 1820s, built in the grounds of the much older St. Anne’s Church which still stands as a ruin nearby

Font Notes: Click to view

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"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1358, -8.644

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 8.88″ N, 8° 38′ 38.4″ W

UTM: 29U 524366 5776202

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