Kilkenny No. 2 / Cill Chainnigh

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 4

Scene Description: Fleur-de-lis design in the four spandrels of the top surface of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by David Goda

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 October 2015)

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by David Goda

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design element - patterns - fluted

Scene Description: all around the external sides of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by David Goda

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2007 by Andreas F. Borchert [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kilkenny_St_Canice_Cathedral_SW_2007_08_28.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is partially visible in the first arch of the righ [south] arcade

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph 4 December 2008 by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/25762] (handwritten on back of image): 75.64, St. Canice's Cathedral: interior

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view of font

Image Source: Pike (1989: 18)

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

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph 12 October 2008 by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/26215] [Description: Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny: St. Canice's Cathedral: Font]

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Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph 12 October 2008 by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/26211] [Description: Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny: St. Canice's Cathedral: Font]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by David Goda

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00878KIL

Church/Chapel: Cathedral of St. Canice (C. of I.)

Church Patron Saints: St. Canice (Cainnech, Kenneth, etc.)

Church Location: The Close, Coach Rd, Kilkenny, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 56 776 4971

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Kilkenny, Leinster

Directions to Site: Located about 50 km N of Waterford up the N10

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Cashel and Ossory [previous ly in the Diocese of Ossory]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ossory font

Cognate Fonts: Other "Ossory fonts", especially Old Leighlin No. 1

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 David Goda for his photographs of this font and cover

Church Notes: cathedral finished ca. 1275, but tower rebuilt in mid-14thC.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Pike (1989) as probably the earliest of the "Ossory font" group; this is the cathedral's own font, it is made of limestone and still in use; it is decorated with Romanesque flutes on the sides of the square basin (ten flutes to each side); it has a fleur-de-lis design on the upper surface of the basin, at the spandrels of the corners. The base is a central cylinder with four non-constructional columns, and raised on a three-step plinth. The bronze font cover is of later date with an inscription in the outline of a fish. Pike (ibid.) cites Leask (pt. II, p. 103) regarding the dating of the cathedral itself to the "the second half of the thirteenth century probably before 1275", which would put the font in that same period.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.656778, -7.257144

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 24.4″ N, 7° 15′ 25.72″ W

UTM: 29U 617884 5835517

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Height of Basin Side: 35.56 cm*

Basin Total Height: 35.56 cm*

Height of Base: 61.24 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 97.8 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 143.52 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 66.04 x 63.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Pike (1989: 18)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [NB: Pike (1989: 18) mentions the later bronze cover is "inscribed in the outline of a fish 'ICTHUS' [...]", but the word is probably just Pike's explanation of the symbol, not an actual inscription]

Inscription Location: N/N

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal, bronze

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionNotes]

REFERENCES

Leask, Harold G., Irish Churches, [s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d.]

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