St. Fillans No. 1/ Saint Fillans
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Image Source: Walker (1877: 429)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00981STF
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Fillans
Church Patron Saints: St. Fillan [aka Foelan, Fulan]
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Perth & Kinross
Directions to Site: Located about 50 km WNN of Sterling, about 15 km W of Crieff on the A85
Font Location in Church: "It at present [ca. 1887] stands within the front garden of the hotel at St Fillans"
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Walker (1887: 427 and ill on p. 429) as a crude basin roughly oval in plan with a smallish basin well has a flat flat bottom and no drain. Walker (ibid.) writes: "The bowl from St Fillans, I have been informed on credible authority, was used in the church there for at least two hundred years after the dawn of the Reformation. It at present stands within the fron t garden of the hotel at St Fillans."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30V 418875 6259051
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, rough stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: oval
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Diameter (inside rim): 25 cm [long] x 20.7 cm [wide]
Basin Depth: 16.5 cm
Basin Total Height: 30 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 65 cm [long] x 52.5 cm [wide] x 30 cm [tall]
Notes on Measurements: Walker (1887: 427)
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"]