Callan / Callainn
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 36
Scene Description: Pike writes: "9 Gothic flutes on each side" [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/25538] (handwritten on back of image): 72.87, Callan (Co. Kilkenny): Parish Church of St. Mary: Font
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph [original source unknown] in www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/pics/c_callan_augustinian_abbey.jpg [accessed 14 June 2014]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the ruins of the old friary
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barry Somers, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2007 by Barry Somers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callan_Augustinian_Friary] [accessed 14 June 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barry Somers, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2007 by Barry Somers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callan_Augustinian_Friary] [accessed 14 June 2014]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Image Source: Pike (1989: 21)
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edwin Rae Collection (TRIARC. TCD), 2014
Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/25538] (handwritten on back of image): 72.87, Callan (Co. Kilkenny): Parish Church of St. Mary: Font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00869CAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary and St. Catherine (C. of I.) [disused church]
Church Patron Saints: [formerly dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary]
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Kilkenny, Leinster
Directions to Site: Callan is 16 km S of Kilkenny town, on the N76 road to Clonmel
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ossory
Font Location in Church: Inside the closed church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ossory font
Cognate Fonts: 1. St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny
2. St. Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow
3. St. Francis' Abbey, Kilkenny
4. St. Patrick's Memorial Church, Saul, co. Down
5. Ballyhale, 1st Stoup outside the Roman Catholic Church
6. Outside Freshford Roman Catholic Church
7. St Mary's Church, Kilkenny
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].
Church Notes: present church dates to 1816; no longer in use as of ca. 1989
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 21) as a medieval font of the Ossory group in the parish church of St. Mary and St. Catherine, now closed and "formerly dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary", the tower of which "dates back to the thirteenth century". Pike (ibid.) describes the font as made of limestone, with a central drain, and decorated with "9 Gothic flutes on each side and one bevelling at each corner"; the illustration shows the bowl raised on a broad central shaft and four colonnettes, all with mouldings at top and bottom, and the whole standing on a plain square lower base/plinth. Since the church here dates only from 1816, was the font brought from elsewhere? perhaps the church of the nearby Augustinian Friary?
COORDINATES
UTM: 29U 609616 5823442
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Height of Basin Side: 36.83 cm*
Basin Total Height: 36.83 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 100.33 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 82.55 x 82.55 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Pike (1989: 21)
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