Muckersey / Muckersie
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B01: coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: on one of the narrow sides of the basin
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Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05684MUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Perth & Kinross
Directions to Site: Located "a few miles distant" from Forgandenny, south of Perth
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: The chapel, which had no other ancient features, was being used as a family vault at the end of the 19th century.
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897) as an octagonal stone basin of a baptismal font; the sides are uneven, four (every other side) narrower than the other four; on one of the narrow sides, a shield charged with a coat of arms (unidentified).. The joint web site of the universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow [http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/research/projects/serf/inthewiderlandscape/earlychapels/muckersie/] notes: "The late medieval octagonal font from Muckersie was given to Forteviot church in 1905."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
MacGibbon, David, Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland: from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1896-1897