Bective

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B01: human figure - male - head?

Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. Xa)

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B02: symbol - shield - cross - Latin

Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. IX)

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B03: design element - motifs - leaf - vine?

Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. IX)

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B05: human figure - female? - head

Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. Xb)

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Image Source: Cooke (1903: 369)

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Image Source: Pike (1989: 46)

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

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Image Source: Roe (1968: pl. IX)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00897BEC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary (C. of I.) [orig. from Clady?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Bective Church, Old Trim Road, Bective, Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland

Country Name: Republic of Ireland

Location: Meath / An Mhí, Leinster

Directions to Site: Bective is about 5 miles south of Navan off the R161 Navn to Trim.

Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Bective since 1953

Century and Period: 15th century, Medieval

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 Roe (1968: [25]-27): octagonal mounted baptismal font of uncertain origin; the font was brought into the present church at Bective in 1953 by canon Athey from the gardens at Bective House, where it has served as birdbath; some sources attempted to establish its origin as the medieval church at Clady, but Roe (ibid.) states that "this ascription may well be correct, but cannot be considered certain". The font cosists of four pieces, at least one of which, an added underbowl, does not seem to belong to it: an octagonal basin with four plain sides and four decorated with: 1)shield with Latin cross; 2)four vine leaves in a knot; 3)human face (male?); 4)human face (female?); these heads are at opposite panels. Roe dates the basin to the 15th century. Described and illustrated in Pike (1989: 46) [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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.595334, -6.70342

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 35′ 43.2″ N, 6° 42′ 12.31″ W

UTM: 29U 651984 5940952

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: four

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 3.2 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 49.5 cm

Basin Depth: 20.2 cm

Height of Basin Side: 25.4 cm

Basin Total Height: 40.64 cm

Height of Base: 53.34 cm

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 17.4 x 19 cm (tapering to 12.7 cm a/p Roe

Font Height (with Plinth): 93.98 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 57.15 cm (width)

Notes on Measurements: Roe (1968: [25]-27); Pike (1989: 46)

REFERENCES

Brash, R.R., Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, [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

Roe, Helen M., Medieval Fonts of Meath, Longford, Ireland: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968

Wilde, W., Beauties of Boyne and Blackwater, [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1949