Selkirk No. 2
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Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III, fig. 1496)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05687SEL
Object Type: Stoup
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Church Wikidata: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"Kirk_o%27_the_Forest"_-_geograph.org.uk_-_624108.jpg
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Site Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A7, 10 km south of Galashields, about 20 km north of Hawick
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: built into a house wall; later a flower pot
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III, p. 532-533 and fig. 1496) as "a stoup, which is square, with the angles cut off, converting it into an unequal-sided octagon. It is decorated in a very curious manner with signs and letters of which we can give no explanation. It was found built into an old house at Selkirk when it was taken down many years ago. A mason took possession of it and used it for a flower pot, and chiselled a hole in the bottom." This object was reported in the possession of Mr. Craig Brown ca. 1896.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (red)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: [the drain hole was made by the mason who used it as a flower pot]
Basin Depth: 25 cm
Basin Total Height: 27.5 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 27.5 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 36.3 x 40 cm
Notes on Measurements: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III, p. 533)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters
Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: [cf. image in the Iconographical data area]
Inscription Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III, fig. 1496)
REFERENCES
- MacGibbon, David, Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland: from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1896-1897, vol. III, p. 532-533 and fig. 1496