Peebles
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LB01: design element - architectural - arch - Gothic - 16
Scene Description: two on each side [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
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
FontID: 00963PEE
Church Location: High St, Peebles EH45 8SW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1721 723986
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Scottish Borders
Directions to Site: Located about 35 km S of Edinburgh, down the A703
Font Location in Church: Not in a church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
55.6507407304,
-3.18884857794
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
55° 39' 2.67" N,
3° 11' 19.85" W
UTM: 30U 488115 93886083
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: [missing]
Basin Interior Shape: [missing]
Basin Exterior Shape: [missing]
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; r["References"]