Kilkenny No. 3 / Cill Chainnigh

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Image Source: Pike (1989: 19)

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

design element - patterns - fluted

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/26153] (handwritten on back of image): 72.94, Kilkenny: Franciscan Friary: Baptismal font in recess in S. tower supports

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Scene Description: the ruins of the friary/abbel in the context of Smithwick's Brewery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2006 by Humphrey Bolton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/206327] [accessed 14 June 2014]

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Image Source: Pike (1989: 19)

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00879KIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: St. Francis' Abbey (Franciscan Friary)

Church Patron Saints: St. Francis of Assisi

Church Location: Parliament St., Kilkenny, Ireland -- Tel.: +353 56 772 1014

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Kilkenny, Leinster

Directions to Site: the ruins of old Franciscan friary are located in the site of Smithwick's Brewery.

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Ossory]

Font Location in Church: Inside the abbey, beneath the S tower

Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ossory font

Cognate Fonts: 1. St. Canice's Catherdral, Kilkenny 2. St. Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow 3. St. Patrick's Memorial Church, Saul, co. Down 4. Ballyhale, 1st Stoup outside the Roman Catholic Church 5. Outside Freshford Roman Catholic Church 6. St Mary's Church, Kilkenny 7. St Mary and St Catherine, Callan 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: Old Franciscan friary.

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 19): medieval limestone font of the Ossory group; it "was found in the old Church in Kitler's Inn [...] now preserved in the Franciscan Friary [...] there is no certainty that this is where it came from originally". The font consists of a square basin decorated "with flutes in Romanesque pairs. Fleur-de-Lis in relief on surface" [i.e., probably on the spandrels of the upper surface, like those on the font at St. Canice's and St. Laserian's -- cf. Index entry for Kilkenny No. 2 and Old Leighlin No.1 respectively].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.657539, -7.254828

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 27.14″ N, 7° 15′ 17.38″ W

UTM: 29U 618039 5835605

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Height of Basin Side: 43.18 cm

Basin Total Height: 43.18 cm

Height of Base: 60.96 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 104.14 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 78.74 cm

Notes on Measurements: Pike (1989: 19)

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