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Image Source: Walker (1887: 404)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00960LYN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of Lyne
Country Name: Scotland
Location: South Lanarkshire
Directions to Site: Walker places the old church above the left bank of Lyne Water, a drive and a walk away across Manor Water from Kirkhope (itself about 30-35 km N of Dumfries)
Font Location in Church: "Built into the inside of the church wall" (Walker, 1887, p. 402)
Church Notes: 12thC church
Font Notes:
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Walker (1887) describes this font as a large octagonal plain basin with a large round inner well; at some point -Wlaker suggests 1644, when the church was rebuilt by John, Lord Hay of Yester- the font was "built into the inside of the inside of the church wall" and replaced by a "basin of pewter or silver". (Ibid., p. 402)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.651389, -3.285833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 39′ 5″ N, 3° 17′ 9″ W
UTM: 30U 482013 6167318
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: the drainage hole is reported as being 3.75 cm in diameter
Diameter (inside rim): 53.5 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm
Basin Depth: 37.5 cm
Basin Total Height: 52.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Walker (1887: 402)
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. 402 and ill. on p. 404