Uphall / Strathbroc
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Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. I: fig. 307)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. I: fig. 306)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05690UPH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Old Parish Church of Strathbroc [now in the Catholic Church at Broxburn]
Font Location in Church: The font is now in the RC church of Broxburn
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17852693
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra [was the patron of the old parish]
Church Notes: According to MacGibbon & Ross (ibid.) the old parish church of Strathbroc was abandoned in the 16th century.
Site Location: West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Uphall is located about 6 km west of Broxburn, itself about 6-8 km east of Edinburgh
Historical Region: formerly Linlithgowshire
Additional Comments: recycled font: the same source (MacGibbon...) informs that the old church was abandoned in the 16th cent.; the font "was rescued from the adjoining farm steading, where it served a useful, if not dignified, purpose, and placed on its present base, and now stands in the Roman Catholic Church of Broxburn" (Broxburn is 5-6 km east of Uphall)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. I: 344 and fig. 306, 307) as the basin from an old baptismal font originally from the old parish church of Strathbroc; it was rescued from a nearby farm where it had been used for "practical purposes"; it is an octagonal basin (the original base is lost) ornamented with an inscription [cf. Inscription area] in large letters on six of its sides, the other two being blank; other than the inscription, it has a roll moulding around the lower basin side; the basin is now mounted on a modern columnar base and a low square plinth.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two [the base is modern]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: aroun six of the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "STA ECCLESIA / NICOLAS / IHS/ [omega] / IHS / M / M"
Inscription Notes: The old church was dedicated to St. Nicholas
Inscription Source: MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897, v. I: 344 and fig. 307)
REFERENCES
- MacGibbon, David, Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland: from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1896-1897, vol. I: 344 and fig. 306, 307