Galway No. 2
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Results: 9 records
B01: design element - motifs - braid
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lis Audigier, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
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B02: design element - motifs - unidentified
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
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LB01: design element - motifs - sawtooth - 2 (rhomboid?)
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lis Audigier, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
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LB02: design element - motifs - unidentified
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lis Audigier, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
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view of stoup in context
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Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
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view of church interior
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Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
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view of stoup
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Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
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view of stoup
Scene Description: two rows of, perhaps, stylised bird motifs; one around the basin, the other lower down
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Image Source: drawing by Pike (1989: 31)
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00861GAL
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: ca. 1320?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas (C. of Ireland)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Galway, Connacht, Republic of Ireland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the head of Galway Bay, 185 km W of Dublin
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Pike (1989) as a vessel "dated earlier than the font, about 1320 by Church records. Thought to be a stoup with no central drain in the circular bowl. There are two sections to the pedestal. The decoration is in high relief on bowl and pedestal. Decoration on the stoup could be birds". Although the surfaces are much damaged, there appear to be several identifiable patterns of motifs on this object: a single-strand braid seems to run around most of the side of the basin, with other motifs below it; the upper stem of the base appears round and has two rows of saw-tooth one over the other making rhomboid motifs on one area, and floral (?) of avian (?) on the opposite side; the lower section of the stem appears octagonal and is badly damaged around the lower end; the whole is raised of a circular pedestal. The inner basin well is round and very shallow. [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 [2006] images of this object]
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].
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 496422 5902616
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.27277, -9.05366
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 16′ 21.97″ N, 9° 3′ 13.18″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 78.74 cm
Notes on Measurements: Pike (1989: 31)
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, p. 31