Dublin No. 1
Image copyright © Andreas F. Borchert, 2012
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Results: 11 records
design element - motifs - beaded-tape
Scene Description: around the semi-circumference of the cushion-capital sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas F. Borchert, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 28 September 2012 by Andreas F. Borchert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_Cornmarket_St._Audoen's_Church_North_Nave_Baptismal_Font_Detail_2012_09_28.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2023]
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design element - motifs - palmette - 4
Scene Description: a large one on each side, but they are not all identical
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas F. Borchert, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 28 September 2012 by Andreas F. Borchert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_Cornmarket_St._Audoen's_Church_North_Nave_Baptismal_Font_Detail_2012_09_28.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2023]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Famous Protestant Church in Dublin, ROI."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 29 April 2009 by Ijanderson977 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_Dublin_08_977.png] [accessed 28 April 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hauptschiff der anglikanischen St.-Audoenus-Kirche (St. Audoen's Church), Cornmarket in Dublin, Irland. Dieser Teil der Kirche wird noch heute regelmäßig für Gottesdienste genutzt."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan-Herm Janßen, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 21 September 2012 by Jan-Herm Janßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_St_Audoens_Church_Cornmarket_Nave_01.JPG] [accessed 28 April 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hauptschiff der anglikanischen St.-Audoenus-Kirche (St. Audoen's Church), Cornmarket in Dublin, Irland. Dieser Teil der Kirche wird noch heute regelmäßig für Gottesdienste genutzt."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan-Herm Janßen, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 21 September 2012 by Jan-Herm Janßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_St_Audoens_Church_Cornmarket_Nave_02.JPG] [accessed 28 April 2023]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Pike (1989: 13)
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 September 2007 by Holly Hayes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Anglonormannisches Taufbecken in der anglikanischen St.-Audoenus-Kirche (St. Audoen's Church), Cornmarket in Dublin, Irland. Das Taufbecken aus dem 12. Jahrhundert war bei Ausgrabungen im 19. Jahrhundert wiedergefunden worden."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan-Herm Janßen, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 21 September 2012 by Jan-Herm Janßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_St_Audoens_Church_Cornmarket_Nave_Anglo-Norman_Font_01.JPG] [accessed 28 April 2023]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dublin Cornmarket St. Audoen's Church North Nave Baptismal Font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas F. Borchert, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 28 September 2012 by Andreas F. Borchert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_Cornmarket_St._Audoen's_Church_North_Nave_Baptismal_Font_2012_09_28.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Audeon's Church, Co. Dublin"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © VisionsofthePast, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 11 March 2014 by VisionsofthePast [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:32._St_Audeon's_Church,_Co._Dublin.JPG] [accessed 28 April 2023]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2007 by Holly Hayes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 00856DUB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of St. Audoen (C. of I.)
Church Patron Saints: St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Church Location: High St, The Liberties, Dublin, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 46 942 2025
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Dublin, Leinster
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the R108, just N of the Cornmarket and High Street, on the S bank of the Liffey river, WNW of Dublin Castle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1171-1212
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Norman? / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cushion-capital font
Cognate Fonts: Llangoedmore (Wales) and Inistiogue (Co. Kilkenny), for instance
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. We are also grateful to Holly Hayes, of www.sacred-destinations.com, for her photograph of this font
Church Notes: St. Audoen's church was built somewhere between 1190-1192, on the site of an earlier dedicated to St. Columcille, dating to the 7thC; much damaged, re-built and restored since
Font Notes:
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Interior_of_St._Audoen%27s_Church,_Cornmarket
Baptismal font described by J. Graves in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1866). Noted in The Ecclesiologist (XXVIII, 1867: 128, 129): "The font is of peculiar interest. It is a very uncommon and beautiful specimen of an early font. It was found in the vaults during alterations in 1848, and was unfortunately broken during removal. It has been skilfully put together, and it is in excellent preservation." Described and illustrated in Pike (1989): cushion-capital font; semi-circular boat-shaped sides to the external bowl, and a single stout round pedestal; inside of the bowl was lined with lead untill 1926 when the lining was stolen, according to Pike (ibid.); the decoration is a series of dots in relief ["beaded-tape motif] forming a border to outline the semicircular sides, which contain an inverted fez or fan on each face. Pike (ibid.) cites the church pamphlet that points out to the similarity of this font with the one in use in Llangoedmore (Cardigan, Wales) [cf. Index entry for Llangoedmore]. The Phaidon guide (1983: 193) dates this font to ca. 1192, the date of completion of the church [1190-1192].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.343889, -6.275278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 20′ 38″ N, 6° 16′ 31″ W
UTM: 29U 681381 5913987
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: square (mounted) -- cushion-capital (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining stolen in 1926
Basin Total Height: 40.64 cm* including chamfer
Height of Base: 59.7 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 100.33 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 63.5 x 64.77 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Pike (1989: 13)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: "the date of 1192, inscribed on the font, is not genuine", according to Pike [cf. infra]
Inscription Text: [1192]
Inscription Source: Pike (1989: 12)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
Cooke, John, "Cathedrals and Churches of Dublin", [unknown], [unknown], [unknown], 1908, pp. [unknown]; [??]
Mehling, Franz N., Great Britain and Ireland: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985
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
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1849+