Biel House
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 373)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00934BEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Not in a church [orig. from the church of Pitcox?
Church Location: Biel, Pitcox, Eat Lothian, United Kingdom
Country Name: Scotland
Location: East Lothian
Directions to Site: Pitcox [not Petcox] is 2 km NE of Stenton, 5 km SW of Dunbar
Historical Region: formerly Haddingtonshire
Font Location in Church: No longer in a church, but in the grounds at Beil [ca. 1887]
Century and Period: 14th century (late)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Walker (1887) as a "very plain and rather lumpish-looking bowl [...] at present doing duty as a water-trough within the beautiful grounds of Beil [Biel], not far from the site of the now extinct church of Petcox [sic], and from which it very likely came" (ibid., p. 368, 371). He suggests a date in the late 14th century, like the Stenton font nearby. [NB: the name of the village is Pitcox]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.974848, -2.588281
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 58′ 29.45″ N, 2° 35′ 17.81″ W
UTM: 30U 525695 6203357
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 9 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 67.5 cm
Basin Depth: 25 cm
Basin Total Height: 50 cm
Notes on Measurements: Walker (1887: 371)
REFERENCES
Walker, J. Russell, "Scottish Baptismal Fonts", 21 or N.S. 9, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1887, pp. 346-448; p. 368-371 and ill. on p. 373