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Image Source: Walker (1887: 379)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00938ARD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Antiquarian Museum, Edinburgh [ca. 1887]
Church/Chapel: [In a museum] [ orig. from Ardivot]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Moray
Historical Region: formerly Elginshire
Font Location in Church: [In a museum]
Font Notes:
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Described in Walker (1887) as "a very small early bowl, circular externally, with four projecting angle shafts and slightly projecting upper rim." The inner well is round and it has no drain. Walker gives the location as the Antiquarian Museum in Edinburgh.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.946944, -3.19
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 56′ 49″ N, 3° 11′ 24″ W
UTM: 30U 488134 6200191
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical (with angle projections)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 3-4 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 20 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 26.25 cm
Basin Depth: 7.5 cm
Basin Total Height: 15 cm
Notes on Measurements: Walker (1887: 372)
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. 372 and ill. on p. 379