Drogheda No. 2

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35075] (handwritten on back of image): Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Detail of baptismal font: Baptism of Christ

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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - holding book and sword

Scene Description: in the left arch -- on the west side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: Armstrong (1833: 357)

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B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross

Scene Description: in the right arch -- on the west side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: Armstrong (1833: 357)

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B04: angel - holding shield - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for details] -- on the southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35073] (handwritten on back of image): Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Detail of baptismal font

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B04: coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: (Sherle family?) [cf. Font notes for details] -- on the southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35073] (handwritten on back of image): Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Detail of baptismal font

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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Philip?

Scene Description: in the left arch -- on the south side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35078] (handwritten on back of image): 75.116, Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Detail of baptismal font: 3 Saints

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B06: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Matthew?

Scene Description: in the right arch -- on the south side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

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B07: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Simon?

Scene Description: in the left arch -- on the southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35077] (handwritten on back of image): 75.115, Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Detail of baptismal font: SS. Simon and Thomas

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B08: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Thomas? - holding spear and book

Scene Description: in the right arch -- on the southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

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B09: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Bartholomew?

Scene Description: in the left arch -- on the east side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35065] (handwritten on back of image): 68.91, Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Protestant Church: Font: E. face

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B10: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Scene Description: in the right arch -- on the east side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

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B11: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. John the Evangelist - holding goblet or chalice

Scene Description: in the left arch -- on the northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35064] (handwritten on back of image): 68.92, Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Protestant Church: Font: N.E. face

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B12: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great

Scene Description: in the right arch -- on the northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

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B13: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Scene Description: in the left arch -- on the north side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R] [NB: the upper half of this basin side is now covered by the dedicatory plaque added during the restoration of the font -- cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35063] (handwritten on back of image): 68.93, Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Protestant Church: Font: N. face

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B14: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter?

Scene Description: in the right arch -- on the north side of the basin [orientation is approximate -- order of the panels commences with the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R] [NB: the upper half of this basin side is now covered by the dedicatory plaque added during the restoration of the font -- cf. FontNotes]

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BU01: angel - demi-figure - holding clothes

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the underbowl, right beneath the scene of the Baptism of Christ, and, therefore, taken to be part of the scene as the attendant angel [orientation is approximate -- order of the sides commences below the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35066] GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO; Attendant Angel at the Baptism of Christ on an ancient baptismal font in the church of St. Peter, Drogheda, Co. Louth

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BU02: angel?

Scene Description: no image available -- on the west side of the underbowl -- probably another angel holding a scroll [orientation is approximate -- order of the sides commences below the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

BU03: angel - demi-figure - holding scroll

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate -- order of the sides commences below the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35076] (handwritten on back of image): 75.114, Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Detail of baptismal font: Coat of arms

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BU04: angel - demi-figure - holding scroll

Scene Description: on the south side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate -- order of the sides commences below the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35068] (handwritten on back of image): Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Font: Angel

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BU05: angel - demi-figure - holding scroll

Scene Description: on the southeast side of the underbowl -- the scroll is quite different from the others [orientation is approximate -- order of the sides commences below the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35071] (handwritten on back of image): Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Detail of baptismal font: Angel

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BU06: angel?

Scene Description: no image available -- on the east side of the underbowl -- probably another angel holding a scroll [orientation is approximate -- order of the sides commences below the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

BU07: angel - demi-figure - holding scroll

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate -- order of the sides commences below the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35069] (handwritten on back of image): Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Detail of baptismal font: Angel

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BU08: angel - demi-figure - holding scroll

Scene Description: on the north side of the underbowl [orientation is approximate -- order of the sides commences below the Baptism of Christ on the northwest side, then L->R]

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35081] (handwritten on back of image): 75.120, Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Detail of baptismal font: Angel

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals

Scene Description: much of the detail in the carving has been eroded or broken off; the arch-heads, like the frames on the underbowl below, are chiefly made of a simple two-strand braid, but some of the capitals and the columns themselves are quite varied

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design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: most of the frames of the basin and underbowl are made of a simple two-strand braid

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35067] (handwritten on back of image): Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Baptismal font

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: most of it may be a later re-carving

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: the spandrels of the underbowl are decorated with a variety of floral and foliage motifs; the panel below the Baptism of Christ appears to have the most

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35067] (handwritten on back of image): Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Church: Baptismal font

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view of basin - projection - detail

Scene Description: showing the broken area at the back

Image Source: Armstrong (1833: 357)

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view of basin - south side

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/38924] (handwritten on back of image): 68.80, Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Protestant church: Baptismal font: S. face

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view of font

Scene Description: with the coat of arms showing here in the centre panel

Image Source: Armstrong (1833: 357)

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view of font

Image Source: drawing in Pike (1989: 40)

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

view of font

Image Source: Roe (1976: pl. 2)

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view of font - southwest and south sides

Image Source: digital version of a B&W photograph by Edwin Rae [http://hdl.handle.net/2262/38923] (handwritten on back of image): 68.79, Drogheda, Co. Louth: St. Peter's Protestant church: Baptismal font: From S.S.W.

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00896DRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter (C. of I.)

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Peter Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Louth, Leinster

Directions to Site: Drogheda is 50 km N of Dublin up the M1/N1 -- St Peter's (C. of I.) is on the N side of the river, between the National School to the N, and William St. to the S

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Armagh

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end [cf. FontNotes for movements of this font]

Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Apostles 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]

Church Notes: This Church of St. Peter should not be confused with the Roman Catholic of the same name, also in Drogheda [cf. Drogheda No. 1] -- "St. Peter’s church was established on the north side of the River Boyne also before 1186 and was given by de Lacy to the Augustinian canons of Llanthony Prima in Monmouthshire, Wales (The Topography and Layout of Medieval Drogheda by John Bradley, published by the Old Drogheda Society, 1997)" [http://stpetersdrogheda.ie/history/] [accessed 16 June 2014]

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Described and illustrated by R. Armstrong in an article in The Dublin Penny Journal edition of May 4, 1833. Armstrong provides a good description of the font and its ornamentation, which is accompanied by an excellent woodcut of the font, and decries the fact that, at the time of his writing, the font was lying neglected and unknown in the yard of the sexton's house, where it was used as a pig-trough. It was later removed to the church porch, probably as a result of Armstrong's cry for help for the font. Described and illustrated in Strickland (1921): "The Font is said to have been purposely broken at the time of the burning of the old church by Cromwell. In 1921, Mr. Chamney had it repaired in memory of his father, William Graves Chamney, who had been baptised in the church in 1821. The Font is octagonal; six of the facets were each divided into two arched niches or compartments, each niche containing the figure of an apostle. The seventh facet was occupied by a representation of the Baptism of Christ. The remaining facet has a shield with arms, two bendlets, a mullet in chief, impaling three lions rampant; the shield supported by two kneeling angels. The panels of the lower portion [i.e., of the underbowl] have angels holding scrolls. The arms have not been identified. Mr. Burtchaell suggests that the bendlet coat may be Sherle, a Co. Meath family [.... The woodcut in the Dublin Penny Journal shows the condition of the Font in 1832, with three of its sides fractured, and without a base or pedestal. In the restoration, this fracture was repaired by inserting a fragment found at the residence of Mr. John Leland, Beltchburne, supposed to have belonged to the Font, and filling up the remainder of the gap with plain stone without any carving. A plain octagonal base was also added." Described and illustrated in Roe (1976: 256-261) as "uncommonly massive, splendidly ornamented". Roe identifies the panels [A-B under each numeral, starting on the right of the coat-of-arms] as follows: 1)A: Apostle, Philip?; B: Apostle, Matthias; 2)A: Apostle, Simon or James Minor; B: Apostle, Thomas; 3)A: Apostle, Bartholomew; B: Apostle, unidentified; 4)A: John; B:Apostle, James Major; 5)A: unidentified; B: Peter?; 6)Baptism of Jesus; 7)A: Apostle, Paul; B: Andrew; 8)Donors' coat of arms [NB: Roe questions the original interpretation of the coat-of-arms in the Dublin Penny Journal; admitting the lack of conclusive heraldic evidence Roe suggests that "the Sharl family seems plausible. This is family known variously as Serle, Scharle, Serlis, etc."; her other suggestion is that the "donor's name should be sought among the extensive family of the Crices"]. Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 40): the medieval basin of this font "must have been brought in from the old Church", in whose steeple a hundred men are said to have burned to death holding out against Cromwell; the octagonal basin was damaged by Cromwellian troops in 1649. "The font is in use. It is lead lined and has a central drain. It is octagonal and decorated by relief carving. There are two Apostles on each of six panels of the bowl. The remaining panels carry the Baptism of Christ in Jordan and a family crest on the eighth face. Guardian angels appear on the eight faces of the chamfer". The web site of St. Peter's [http://drogheda.armagh.anglican.org/history] [accessed 30 September 2007] quotes Roe: "The magnificent font, which stands by the door at the West end of the church, is the only surviving relic of the Medieval church still in use. Helen M. Roe in an article entitled Two Decorated Fonts in Drogheda, Co. Louth, published in the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal says the following: “The earliest reference [to the font] seems to be the illustrated account given in the Dublin Penny Journal of 1833, the substance of which is substantially repeated some ten years later by John D’Alton in his History of Drogheda. According to these writers St. Peter’s Church was severely damaged in 1649 by Cromwellian troops, while just a century later, what still survived of the fabric of the pre-Reformation building was cleared away for the erection of the present church. As it is to-day the font is badly damaged; the pedestal and base seem to be lost. Whether such injuries and losses are to be attributed to the Cromwellian forces or were of later occurrence cannot be said. In this writer’s opinion, however, it well may be that at the erection of the new and up-to-date church, the font with its pedestal and base were simply thrown out as hopelessly old-fashioned, even perhaps, according to the classical tastes of the time, accounted barbarously “Gothick” in style. Be that as it may, by 1833 the pedestal and base were already missing and the great carved bowl itself lay in the sexton’s yard as a feeding trough “for the dirtiest of animals.”. Horrified by such neglect and misuse, the writer concluded his account with the hope that it might catch the eye of the then incumbent of St. Peter’s and so induce him to have the font removed to some more worthy situation. His hopes were vain. Almost a hundred years were to elapse before, in 1921, the pig-trough font carefully repaired was restored to its proper use by Mr. William Chamney as a memorial to his father. Placed at the west end of the north side of the church, the font is now mounted on a short plain plinth and low base. It is octagonal and formed as two registers with a circular basin now lined with lead. The eight upper panels are vertical and somewhat wider than their height while the lower ones, sharply chamfered inwards, decrease in width downwards to be finished by thick, roped moulding which encircles the whole bowl. Beneath the projection of the moulding the sides of the font continue for a few centimetres and it may be presumed that the joining between bowl and supporting pillar was effected here and thus would have been concealed by the overhang of the moulding. The vessel is very rich in appearance. The panels of both registers are framed horizontally and vertically by twisted “vine-stem” mouldings the vertical lines dividing at the top to form round-headed niches separated by plain pillars, the spandrels above being copiously decorated. Six panels of the upper register are thus formed as two niches within which stand two of the Apostles while the remaining two panels display a single subject - the Baptism of Jesus and a secular coat-of-arms with angel supporters. The panels of the lower register, some which are cruelly injured, are all formed as single niches in each of which was an angel. Several of these hold a long banderole or scroll but the angel immediately below the Baptism is show holding a long pleated robe over its arms.”"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.7153, -6.3546

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 42′ 55.08″ N, 6° 21′ 16.56″ W

UTM: 29U 674567 5955096

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lined

Rim Thickness: 14 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 67 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm*

Basin Depth: 21 cm* [approx.]

Basin Total Height: 59.7 cm*

Height of Base: 36.8 cm**

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: upper: 30 high x 40 cm wide -- lower: 22 high x 38 cm wide decreasing to 26-25 -- chamfer: 5 high x 23 cm* wide decreasing to about 20 cm* in width

Font Height (with Plinth): 96.5 cm**

Trapezoidal Basin: 94 cm* (width)

Notes on Measurements: *Roe (1976: 261) [Roe gives the thickness of the rope moulding as 8 cm] -- **Pike (1989: 40)

REFERENCES

Armstrong, R., "Ancient Baptismal Font, St. Peter's, Drogheda", vol. I (May 4, 1833), no. 45, The Dublin Penny Journal, 1833, pp. 357-358; 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

Roe, Helen M., "Two Decorated Fonts in Drogheda, Co. Louth", XVIII, 4, The Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, 1976, pp. 255-262, 5 ill.; r["References"]

Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1849+