Dalgarnock No. 2 / Dalgarno / Dalgarnoc / Dalgarnog
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Dalgarnock burial ground, old kirk font, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. Base made from old burial stones."
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Image Source: 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]
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Scene Description: 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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Scene Description: Walker drew the basin without a base ca. 1887
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing Walker (1887: 394)
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Dalgarnock burial ground, old font and stand, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. Possibly pre-Reformation gravestones used as the base."
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Image Source: 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]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00951DAL
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Michael, Dalgarnock
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
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: It "lies just inside the entrance gate of the out-of-the-way and deserted-looking churchyard of Dalgarnock" (Walker, 1887, p. 392)
Described in Walker (1887) as a square basin with a square inner well and a square exit drain; the upper basin sides are short and vertical; the underbowl has a long chamfer, both plain. It lies "just inside the entrance gate of the out-of-the-way and deserted-looking churchyard of Dalgarnock" (ibid). Photographs of this font taken 17 October 2017 by Rosser1954 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_font_at_Dalgarnock_burial_ground,_Dumfries_and_Galloway,_Scotland.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2018] show the same basin illustrated ca. 1887 by Walker,
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, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: the drainage hole is square
Rim Thickness: 8 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 46.25 x 46.25 cm
Basin Depth: 36.25 cm
Basin Total Height: 42.5 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 62.5 x 62.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Walker (1887: 392)
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"]