Dalgarnock No. 1 / Dalgarno / Dalgarnoc / Dalgarnog / Friars Carse

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Scene Description: FONT1 digital photograph taken 17 October 2017 by Rosser1954 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalgarnock_burial_ground,_old_font_and_stand,_Dumfries_%26_Galloway,_Scotland.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2018] Source caption: "Dalgarnock burial ground, old font and stand, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. Possibly pre-Reformation gravestones used as the base." FONT2 digital photograph taken 17 October 2017 by Rosser1954 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalgarnock_burial_ground,_old_font,_Dumfries_%26_Galloway,_Scotland.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2018] Source caption: "Dalgarnock burial ground, old kirk font, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. Base made from old burial stones." FONT3 digital photograph taken 17 October 2017 by Rosser1954 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_font_at_Dalgarnock_burial_ground,_Dumfries_and_Galloway,_Scotland.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2018] Source caption: "Old font at Dalgarnock burial ground, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Parts of old gravestones used to make a base."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00948DAL
Church/Chapel: originally from St. Michael's church, Dalgarnock [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: [no trace of the church exists; only the churchyard remains]
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Dumfries and Galloway
Directions to Site: Dalgarnock is located S of Sanquhar, N of Dumfries -- no trace exists of the church; only the churchyard remains
Font Location in Church: Walker reports it located at the front of Friars Carse house, part of a "collection" there in the 1790s.
Church Notes: originally a mid-12thC chapel (?) of Holyrood Abbey; annexed to Closeburn 1606; fell out of use 18thC;
Described in Walker as one of several fonts part of a private "collection" kept at Friars Carse ca. 1792. This one is described as an "octagon bowl of white freestone [...] perfectly plain." (Walker, 1887, p. 386). Engraving in Archaeology (vol. XI, pl. IX)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.224, -3.7687
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 13' 26" N, 3° 46' 7" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Freestone (white)
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 67.5 cm
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm
Basin Total Height: 45 cm
Notes on Measurements: Walker (1887: 386)

REFERENCES

Walker, J. Russell, "Scottish Baptismal Fonts", 21 or N.S. 9, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1887, pp. 346-448; r["References"]