Selkirk No. 3
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B01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: "of a Gothic character"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III, fig. 1497)
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B02: symbol - shield - cross - Latin
Scene Description: several of them on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III, fig. 1497)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05688SEL
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
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III, p. 533 and fig. 1497) as a stoup that "has an unfinished appearance [...] decorated with shields, some having an incised cross, and with foliage of Gothic character. The plan on the under side is in the form of a Greek cross."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, whinstone (blue)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: other
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: other
Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 27.5 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 45 cm
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm
Basin Total Height: 27-28 cm
Notes on Measurements: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. III, p. 533)
REFERENCES
- MacGibbon, David, Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland: from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1896-1897, vol. III, p. 533 and fig. 1497