Thomastown No. 2
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: "decorated Gothic flutes"
B02: design element - architectural - arcade - blind
Scene Description: only two arches visible on the fragment [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Image Source: Pike (1989: 22)
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
R01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: Early English style foliage
view of font - fragment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Pike, 1989
Image Source: Pike (1989: 22)
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (letter of 9/2/2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00884THO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church (C. of I.) [now closed -- built with parts of the original mid-13th century temple]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Kilkenny, Leinster
Directions to Site: Thomastown is about 12 miles south-east of Kilkenny on the R700.
Font Location in Church: Fragments in the churchyard
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ossory font
Cognate Fonts: Others of the same group
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].
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 22-23) as "fragments of a Medieval font of the Ossory type, with decorated Gothic flutes. The surface of the bowl is decorated with early English foliage", the baptismal vessel of "the Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a fine mid thirteenth century building". The illustration in Pike (ibid.) shows a fragment that appears to be the corner of a square basin, with two blind arches on it. [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]. [cf. Index entry for Thomastown No. 1 for a medieval font decorated with heraldic motifs and still in use in the Roman Catholic parish church of this town]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.526859,
-7.13462
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 31′ 36.69″ N,
7° 8′ 4.63″ W
UTM: 29U 626545 5821275
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: [fragments]
Font Shape: square (mounted)?
Basin Exterior Shape: square?
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