Galway No. 1

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Results: 19 records

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B01: symbol - shield - emblem - Lynch crest

Scene Description: North side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal - cross shaped

Scene Description: North side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B03: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped

Scene Description: South side of the basin: motifs arranged in two rows, up-and-down

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B04: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: East side of the basin: two Ogee windows

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B05: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: West side of the basin: two Ogee windows

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BS01: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: East side of the basin: in the three spandrels

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BS02: design element - motifs - circle - motif inside - tree-spoke - curved spokes

Scene Description: West side of the basin: in the left spandrel

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BS03: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 3

Scene Description: West side of the basin: in the centre spandrel, two up, one down

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BS04: animal - mammal - quadruped

[cf. Font notes] West side of the basin: in the right spandrel; passant; looking left; could be a dof or another canine; not particularly lynx-like, if that is what it was intended to represent

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes] West side of the basin: in the right spandrel; passant; looking left; could be a dof or another canine; not particularly lynx-like, if that is what it was intended to represent

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: North side: detail of the left corner, showing the Lynch crest [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: West side of the basin: detail of the upper rim: a brass (?) staple for the cover; probably not original

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin - interior - drain

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Scene Description: notice the missing outer colonnettes, and the beautifully carved central shaft

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

showing the north-east sides; note the new base: the outer colonnettes missing in Paley's time [ca. 1844?] have been replaced, but the central shaft is not the carved one showing in Paley's engraving

Scene Description: showing the north-east sides; note the new base: the outer colonnettes missing in Paley's time [ca. 1844?] have been replaced, but the central shaft is not the carved one showing in Paley's engraving

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font - east side

Image Source: drawing in Pike (1989: 30)

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

view of font - north side

Image Source: drawing in Pike (1989: 30)

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

view of font - south side

Image Source: drawing in Pike (1989: 30)

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

view of font - west side

Image Source: drawing in Pike (1989: 31)

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

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 00860GAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas (C. of Ireland)

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, Lombard St, Galway, H91 PY20, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 89 489 8084

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Galway, Connacht

Directions to Site: Located at the head of Galway Bay, 185 km W of Dublin

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, just W of the S entrance

Century and Period: 16th century, Late Medieval

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].

Church Notes: On the site of the present church was a small chapel and adjoining it there stood a church belonging to the Knights Templar. Their order was first suppressed and before 1324, when their estates in England were transferred to the Knights Hospitaller, their church in Galway was demolished. (Pike, 1989, p. 30-31)

Font Notes: Click to view

John Cooke, a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, mentions in his report to the Society (1895) only that "the top of the font is old, and has finely carved sides". Described and illustrated in Paley (1844): "It is difficult to say what is the date of this Font; the form is Norman, but the tracery in the arches has very much of Flamboyant character, and this, together with the foliage of the shaft, renders it probable that the date is of the latter end of the fourteenth, or the beginning of the fifteenth century." In Paley's time it had lost the four shafts supports of the corners, as can be seen in the holes left on the upper volume of the plinth in Paley's (1844) illustration but, by Brandon's time (1948), the font is described as "square, carried on a central stem, and four small angle shafts". Described and illustrated in Pike (1989) in whose time [ca. 1989] the octagonal corner shafts, moulded at the foot, are still there [probably reconstructed after Paley's time]; the plinth is round and made of three steps altogether; the basin is decorated on each of the four faces, the Lynch crest [a/p Pyke's identification] being on the east face; the west face is carved with cuspless tracery, not found elsewhere on a font in Ireland; the north and south faces bear different designs of geometric flowers. [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 Lis Audigier for the recent [October 2006] photographs of this font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.27277, -9.05366

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 16′ 21.97″ N, 9° 3′ 13.18″ W

UTM: 29U 496422 5902616

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining

Height of Basin Side: 35.56 cm

Basin Total Height: 35.56 cm

Height of Base: 35.56 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 71.12 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 124.46 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 73.66 cm

Notes on Measurements: Pike (1989: 30-31)

REFERENCES

Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002

Cooke, John, "Galway", 25, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1895, pp. 290-296; p. 294

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

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