Peebles
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LB01: design element - architectural - arch - Gothic - 16
Scene Description: two on each side [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 406)
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view of fragment - plan, elevation and section
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Walker (1887: 406)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00963PEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Location in Church: Not in a church
Church Address: High St, Peebles EH45 8SW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1721 723986
Site Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 35 km S of Edinburgh, down the A703
Additional Comments: abandoned or unused font: only a fragment remains and "was dug up out of the bed of the River Tweed a good few years ago, just below the site of an old chapel."
Font Notes:
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Described in Walker (1887) as, evidentlly, the shaft of a font, with base and top broken off. The font "was dug up out of the bed of the River Tweed a good few years ago, just below the site of an old chapel." Walker's illustration shows a part of an octagonal stem, each side ornamented with a pair of pointed arches; the piece has a vertical, wide cylindrical hole through its middle. [NB: the basin of a stoup, supposedly from Peebles, ended up in Selkirk - cf. Index entry for Selkirk No. 1]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 488115 93886083
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 55.6507407304, -3.18884857794
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 55° 39' 2.67" N, 3° 11' 19.85" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: missing
Basin Interior Shape: [missing]
Basin Exterior Shape: missing
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: only the base has survived
Notes on Measurements: No measurements given in Walker for the fragment
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. 407 and ill. on p. 406