Edinburgh No. 1
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05246EDI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Site Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Additional Comments: disappeared font / price of a font: said to have been worth one thousand pounds at the time
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh
Font Notes:
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Andre (1882) notes that "Queen Elizabeth gave two presents of golden fonts, one to Mary Queen of Scotland, the second to Charles IX, of France, each of these golden vessels cost one thousand pounds." There is a mention in Worthy (1887) of a "'Font of pure gold' as a complimentary gift on this occasion", carried by Francis, second Earl of Bedford, who was "proxy for the English Queen at the baptism of Prince James, afterwards King James I", therefore in 1566? Was this one of the said fonts?
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, gold?
REFERENCES
- André, J. Lewis, "Leaden Fonts in Sussex", 32, Surrey Archaeological Collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county, 1882
- Worthy, Charles, Devonshire parishes, or the antiquities, heraldry and family history of twenty-eight parishes in the Archdeaconry of Totnes, Exeter; London: William Pollard; George Redway, 1887, vol. 1: 272 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=sgcVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=lamerton+church+font&source=bl&ots=7tuSX1lDWd&sig=AP8wFkxEZsyUbnUi_FgyE5b1S6g&hl=en&ei=2xGkSbvmNIS6nQfnxP2qBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA19,M1] [accessed 24 February 2009]