Morton / Friers Carse / Friars Carse House
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B01: symbol - cross - in a circle - 4
![resembling Maltese crosses, of at least two different sizes, one on each of four side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0020314092_compressed.png)
Scene Description: resembling Maltese crosses, of at least two different sizes, one on each of four side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 393)
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B02: symbol - cross - tréflée or fleurdelysée
![it appears either 'tréflée' or 'fleurdelysée' [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0020314091_compressed.png)
Scene Description: it appears either 'tréflée' or 'fleurdelysée' [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 393)
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B03: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4-petal
Scene Description: appears to be a four-leaf rosette or leaf [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 393)
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B04: design element - architectural - arch - Gothic - 2
![One above another [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0020314093_compressed.png)
Scene Description: One above another [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 393)
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B05: design element - architectural - arch - Gothic - 2
Scene Description: one upside down, joined at the wide end with the other [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 393)
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view of basin
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Image Source: Detail of an engraving in Archaeology (vol. XI, pl. IX)
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view of font - plan, elevation and section
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 393)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00950MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: [orig. from the church at Morton, but by 1792 in the Friers Carse House]
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Dumfries and Galloway
Directions to Site: Located of road B6357
Font Location in Church: no longer in a church
Church Notes: CANMORE [https://canmore.org.uk/site/65218/morton-old-church] [accessed 13 February 2024] has: "Soon after 1144 a church at Morton was given to the monks of Kelso, and in the 14th c is still listed among their possessions."
Font Notes:
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Described in Walker (1887) as being part of a private collection belonging to Friars Carse estate [owned ca. 1887 by T. Nelson; previously, ca. 1792, the owner was Robert Riddell, F.A.S.]. The basin is the only part left: it is octagonal of unequal sides; the basin well is also octagonal [this inner shape is acknowledged by Walker as unique in Scotland]. The vertical sides of the basin are charged with different figures: four of them look like the ordinary dedication cross cut on pre-Reformation churches [a Maltese cross]. The underbowl is chamfered and plain. The basin has a central drain hole. Illustrated in Archaeologia (vol. XI, pl. IX)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.2438, -3.75945
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 14′ 37.68″ N, 3° 45′ 34.02″ W
UTM: 30U 451715 6122185
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Freestone (red)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 7 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 31.25 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 45 cm
Basin Depth: 25 cm
Basin Total Height: 57.5 cm
Height of Base: [missing]
Notes on Measurements: Walker (1887: 392) [NB: Walker gives the measurements of the inner and outer diameters reversed (ext.=1' 1/2" -- int. 1' 6"); we have corrected the error here]
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. 392 and ill. on p. 393