Restennet / Restenneth

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B01: design element - architectural - window - round - 16

Scene Description: two on each side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: Walker (1887: 410)

Copyright Instructions: PD

BBL01: design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: around the bottom of the basin sides [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: Walker (1887: 410)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Restenneth Priory, font, now in Forfar Episcopal Church"

Image Source: digital image in in A Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Churches [https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/corpusofscottishchurches/site.php?id=158858] [accessed 13 February 2025]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. I: fig. 148)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. I: fig. 152)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font - plan, elevation and section

Image Source: Walker (1887: 410)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 00967RES

Church/Chapel: Priory church (was of the Order of St. Augustine)

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Forfar, Angus and Dundee, Scotland, DD8 2SZ, UK

Country Name: Scotland

Location: Angus

Directions to Site: Located off the B9113, in central Forfairshire, 3 km NE of Forfar

Historical Region: formerly Forfarshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the choir, in the ruins of the priory [ca. 1896] [later moved to Forfar Episcopal Church]

Century and Period: , Early English

Cognate Fonts: Stylistically related to the font at Aldbar, but not identical

Church Notes: Walker (1887) informs that St. Bonifacius is said to have dedicated a church here to St. Peter; later, on this same site, an Augustinian priory was founded by David I, which Malcolm IV made dependent of ther Abbey of Jedburgh. "It served as the parish church of Forfar till 1591." (Walker, 1887)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Walker (1887) as "a very good octagonal bowl"; each of the panels of the basin sides has a double round window; at the bottom of the basin, a large rope moulding [a motif Walker describes as "a somewhat unusual feature in the ornamentation of baptismal fonts"; he gives the font at Aldbar, in the same region, as having a somewhat similar one]. Described and illustrated in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. I: 181 and fig. 152) as lying inside the choir with its base gone. An entry in A Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Churches [https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/corpusofscottishchurches/site.php?id=158858] [accessed 13 February 2025] reports and illustrates the old Restennet font in Forfar Episcopal Church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.6533, -2.8461

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 39′ 11.88″ N, 2° 50′ 45.96″ W

UTM: 30V 509436 6278805

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one [base missing]

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 52.5 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 72.5 cm

Basin Depth: 30 cm

Basin Total Height: 45 cm

Notes on Measurements: Walker (1887: 411)

REFERENCES

MacGibbon, David, Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland: from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1896-1897

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"]