Killin / Loch Tay
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 387)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00946KIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Killin
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Perth & Kinross
Directions to Site: Located at the SW tip of Loch Tay, on the A827, about 50-60 km WNW of Stirling (take the A84 from Stirling up to Lochearnhead; connect there with the A85 and go N for 8 km to the right turn (east) on the A827 to Killin)
Font Location in Church: Walker reported it half buried in the churchyard ca. 1887
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Walker (1887): "This is the only seven-sided bowl I have seen or heard of in Scotland." The inside well is round and it has a central drain. In ca. 1887 it was partly buried in the churchyard of Killin. The basin is just under a foot in height. There is no base left. Noted in Rees (2003): "The modern parish church houses a seven-sided Celtic font, carved from a huge boulder." [NB: are Rees and Wlaker writing about the same object? Walker's ]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30V 418794 6258725
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: heptagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 16 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 77.5 cm
Basin Depth: 20 cm
Basin Total Height: 27.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Walker (1887: 385)
REFERENCES
Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003
Walker, J. Russell, "Scottish Baptismal Fonts", 21 or N.S. 9, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1887, pp. 346-448; p. 385 and ill. on p. 387