Ardee / Baile Átha Fhirdhia

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

Image Source: Pike (1989: 16)

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: Source caption: "Old RC church in Ardee, now a furniture shop."

Image Source: Pike (1989: 16)

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

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the union of the stem and lower base/plinth

Image Source: Pike (1989: 16)

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

view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: "Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1810, on site of earlier church. Substantially rebuilt 1899 [...] Elements of earlier structures have been incorporated into the present church" source NIAH [www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13823052/saint-marys-church-of-ireland-church-townparks-ardee-by-county-louth] [accessed 19 November 2019]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 September 2018 by Nuala Furley [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:County_Louth_-_St_Mary's_Church_-_20180930155943.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 December 2009 by Jamie Carroll [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1657070] [accessed 19 November 2019]

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view of font

Image Source: Pike (1989: 16)

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00894ARD

Church/Chapel: Abbey and Parish Church of St. Mary [aka Old St. Mary's] (C. of I.) [originally from the church of the Augustinian abbey at Mansfieldstown]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Market St Market St, Cappocksgreen, Ardee, Co. Louth, A92 NTN8, Ireland

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Louth, Leinster

Directions to Site: Ardee is located 20 km S of Dundalk on the N52 [Mansfieldstown is located about 5-6 miles NE of Ardee, on the R166, which links the N1 with the N52

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Armagh

Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Ardee [dug up from the graveyard at Mansfieldstown ca. 1908(?)]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cushion-capital font

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

Dolan (1908: 212) reported in his "Notes on Ardee, County Louth", in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquariand of Ireland (vol. 38 (1908: 205-214)) that the canon of Ardee, Rev. Lockett Ford, "has set up in the church a very remarkable and ancient baptismal font, dug up in the graveyard of Mansfieldstown." Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 15-16): "This font could also be classified as Cushion Capital type", consisting of a square basin with rounded lower sides and mounted on a roughly cylindrical pedestal and a square lower base/plinth. The contour of the basin sides is ornamented with leaf motif and fleur-de-lis. Pike (ibid.) informs that this medieval font was brought in from the church of the old Augustinian abbey in Mansfield town [i.e., Manfieldstown aka Mountfieldstown, 5-6 miles N-E of Ardee], is made of limestone and still in use at the time of her visit [ca. 1989]. [NB: the RC Church in Ardee, built in 1829, was closed 1974; became a furniture store]

COORDINATES

UTM: 29U 661934 5970240

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: square (mounted) -- cushion-capital (mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Basin Total Height: 73.66 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 107.95 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 58.42 x 58.42 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Pike (1989: 16)

REFERENCES

Dolan, Joseph T., "Notes on Ardee, County Louth", 38, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1908, pp. 205-214; r["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