Selkirk No. 1
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Results: 5 records
B01:
animal - mammal - deer
Scene Description: or a buck or a hart, a/p description in MacGibbon & Ross
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Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897: v. III, fig. 1495)
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B02:
animal - mammal - lion - rampant
Scene Description: facing right
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Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897: v. III, fig. 1495)
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B03:
human figure - head
Scene Description: the mouth served as drain-hole
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Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897: v. III, fig. 1495)
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B04:
animal - mammal - ox?
Scene Description: only the hind quarters remain; MacGibbon & Ross describe it as "an ox having a long tail and cloven feet"
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B05:
animal - mammal - hare?
Scene Description: only part remains; described in MacGibbon & Ross as the "forequarters and head of a hare in full flight"
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05686SEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [orig. from Peebles?]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Scottish Borders
Directions to Site: Located on the A7, 10 km south of Galashields, about 20 km north of Hawick (Peebles is about 40 km west of Selkirk)
Church Notes: MacGibbon & Ross (ibid., v. III: 529) inform that there had been a 12th century church on this site at least since the 12th century; of that church no trace remains; another one was built at the beginning of the 16th century; the ruins reported in their book are those of a mid-18th century (1747) church which had replaced the latter.
Described and illustrated in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897: v. III, p. 531-532 and fig. 1495) as the badly damaged pentagonal basin of a holy-water stoup; one of the sides is badly broken with a large piece missing, showing only the two ends: "on one is the hind quarters of an ox having a long tail and cloven feet, and on the other the forequarters and head of a hare in full flight"; the other sides have [left-to-right]:1)"the figure of a buck or hart"; 2)"a lion rampant"; 3)"a human face, the mouth of which forms an opening for emptying the basin". The same source (ibid., p. 532) informed that this basin "is from Peebles, and was given to Mr. Brown by a gentleman who believes it was found at some ruined building there." [NB: Walker reported in his 1887 work that a shaft of a font or stoup with the top broken off had been found in Peebles. Could it be related to this basin? - cf. Index entry for Peebles]. The "Mr. Brown" mentioned in this source was Mr. Craig Brown, of Selkirk, the owner of the three stoups listed in this Index under Selkirk [Nos. 1, 2 and 3]. He may be the same as T. Craig Brown, author of History of Selkirkshire, quoted in MacGibbon & Ross (ibid., v. III, p. 531n)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone (red)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: pentagonal (mounted) [base missing]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: pentagonal
Drainage Notes: [cf. Font notes for details]
Diameter (includes rim): 32.5 cm
Basin Depth: 10 cm
Basin Total Height: 24.4 cm
Notes on Measurements: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897: v. III, p. 532)
REFERENCES
MacGibbon, David, Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland: from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1896-1897
