Saul nr. Downpatrick / Sabhall Phádraig

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Scene Description: Source caption: "12th Century Font from Kilkenny presented to St. Patrick's Memorial Church Saul by Lady Cuffe (of Leyrath) and the Bishop of Ossory "

Image Source: digital image in the Kilkenny Digital Archive [http://digital-archive.kilkenny.ie/files/square_thumbnails/4811bf9a27fed5a09a94f3bf31fa96bd.jpg] [accessed 13 February 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the present Saint Patrick's Memorial Church is modern, with a replica round tower; built on the reputed site where chieftain Dichu was converted in 432 by St Patrick

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2014 by Irishdeltaforce [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_saul_church_(13).JPG] [accessed 13 February 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: the present Saint Patrick's Memorial Church is modern, with a replica round tower; built on the reputed site where chieftain Dichu was converted in 432 by St Patrick

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 October 2009 by Ardfern [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Down_(015),_October_2009.JPG] [accessed 13 February 2019]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Pike (1989: 19)

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00855SAU

Church/Chapel: St. Patrick's Memorial Church (C. of I.) [orig. from St. Dallan's, Burnchurch, Co. Kilkenny]

Church Patron Saints: [the medieval temple at Burnchurch was dedicated to St. Dallan]

Church Location: 20 St Patricks Rd, Downpatrick BT30 7JG, UK

Country Name: Northern Ireland

Location: Down, Ulster

Directions to Site: Saul is just a few kms N-E of Downpatrick, to the East of Quoile ["Burnchurch is 3.5 miles N.N.W. of Kells, Co. Kilkenny" -- Pike (1989: 19)]

Font Location in Church: The font has been inside the St. Patrick's Memorial Church, Saul, since 1933

Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ossory font

Cognate Fonts: 1. St Canice's Catherdral, Kilkenny 2. St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow 3. St Francis' Abbey, Kilkenny 4. Ballyhale, 1st Stoup outside the Roman Catholic Church 5. Outside Freshford Roman Catholic Church 6. St Mary's Church, Kilkenny 7. St Mary and St Catherine, Callan 8. St Leonard's Church, Dunnamaggan 9.Maddoxtowm Churchyard, Kilkenny 10. St Mary's Churchyard, Thomastown (fragments) 11.Ballyhale 2nd Stoup outside Roman Catholic Church

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].

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

According to Pike (1989: 19), the baptismal font currently [ca. 1989] in use at the 20th-century St. Patrick's Memorial Church was brought to Saul from Burnchurch, Co. Kilkenny in 1933 by the Bishop of Ossory". Pike (ibid.) further reports that "the Church of Ireland [in Burnchurch], now closed, occupies the site of Medieval St. Dallan's Church", whence this font may have originated. Pike (ibid.) describes the font as "limestone, square, with central drain [...and] decorated with five double Romanesque flutes on each side and one double on each corner". This basin is raised onfour colonnettes, one at each angle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.34315, -5.680061

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 20′ 35.34″ N, 5° 40′ 48.22″ W

UTM: 30U 325792 6025013

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: five?

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Height of Basin Side: 44.45 cm*

Basin Total Height: 44.45 cm*

Height of Base: 44.61 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 99.06 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 64.77 x 64.77 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Pike (1989: 19)

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