Fortrose / A' Chananaich
Image copyright © [in the public domain]
PD
Results: 1 records
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. II: fig. 812)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05689FOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Church / Chapel Name: Cathedral of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Stands against the east wall of the aisle [ca. 1896]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness_Cathedral
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the northern bank of the Moray Firth, on the A832, about 15 km NW of Inverness
Historical Region: Scottish Highlands
Font Notes:
Click to view
Described and illustrated in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. II: 401 and fig. 812): "an octagonal font of remarkable design [...] stands against the east wall of the aisle." Odd, perhaps, rather than "remarkable", the basin is octagonal with vertical sides and plain rectangular panels totally unadorned; brief chamfer at the underbowl; the base is an octagonal pedestal curved inwards at the middle, and stands on a short octagonal plinth.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
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, vol. II: 401 and fig. 812