Malahide

INFORMATION

FontID: 00857MAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

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

Church Patron Saints: St. Doulach

Church Location: Saintdoolaghs, St Doolaghs, Co. Dublin, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 1 845 4770

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Dublin, Leinster

Directions to Site: Malahide is on the coast, 2-3 miles N of Dublin

Font Notes: Click to view

Pike (1989) reports a plain font "inspected but not listed" in Malahide St. Doulach's (Pike, 1989). The Phaidon guide mentions the Norman constructions and the 15-16th cent. abbey (Mehling, 1985) [possible sources for the font?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.414722, -6.178333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 24′ 53″ N, 6° 10′ 42″ W

UTM: 29U 687522 5922116

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: Unknown

Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown

REFERENCES

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