Fowlis No. 2 / Fowlis Easter / Foulis Easter
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - lily
Scene Description: a large one on the front side of the basin
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Image Source: Drawing in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III: fig. 1112)
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: on the front side of the stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Department of Art History, University of Glasgow, 2005
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - flower
Scene Description: at least two on each of the lateral basin sides
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Image Source: Drawing in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III: fig. 1112)
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B02: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: on the left side of the stoup
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view of stoup in context
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view of stoup
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05683FOW
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Another such on the south side of the same west doorway
Church / Chapel Name: Fowlis Easter Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, west doorway, north side
Site Location: Angus, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just a few km EEN of Dundee
Historical Region: formerly Perthshire
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897) as a wall-mounted holy-water stoup; the plan is quadrangular at the top, with a round inside well; on the outer sides, at the front, a large lilly; the left and right sides have flower motifs. Noted and illustrated in Gibbs (2005) [NB: supposedly one of two; the other is on the south side and is not illustrated, nor is it mentioned in Gibbs - cf. Index entry for Fowlis No. 3 -- cf. Index entry for Fowlis No. 1 for a noteworthy 16th-century baptismal font in this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: quadrangular (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: quadrangular
Drainage System: no drainage system
REFERENCES
- Gibbs, Robert, "Scottish Gothic Churches and Abbeys [course notes]", 2005
- MacGibbon, David, Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland: from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1896-1897, vol. III: p. 191 and fig. 1112