Restennet / Restenneth
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B01: design element - architectural - window - round - 16
Scene Description: two on each side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 410)
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BBL01: design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: around the bottom of the basin sides [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 410)
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view of font - plan, elevation and section
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Image Source: Walker (1887: 410)
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view of font
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Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. I: fig. 152)
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. I: fig. 148)
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view of basin
Scene Description: Source caption: "Restenneth Priory, font, now in Forfar Episcopal Church"
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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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00967RES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Early English
Cognate Fonts: Stylistically related to the font at Aldbar, but not identical
Church / Chapel Name: Priory church (was of the Order of St. Augustine)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the choir, in the ruins of the priory [ca. 1896] [later moved to Forfar Episcopal Church]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
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)
Church Address: Forfar, Angus and Dundee, Scotland, DD8 2SZ, UK
Site Location: Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B9113, in central Forfairshire, 3 km NE of Forfar
Historical Region: formerly Forfarshire
Additional Comments: abandoned font / unused font: now [1887] in the roofless priory church
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30V 509436 6278805
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.6533, -2.8461
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 39′ 11.88″ N, 2° 50′ 45.96″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one [base missing]
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, vol. I: p. 181 and fig. 152
- Walker, J. Russell, "Scottish Baptismal Fonts", 21 or N.S. 9, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1887, pp. 346-448; p. 411 and ill. on p. 410