Fowlis No. 3 / Fowlis Easter / Foulis Easter

INFORMATION

FontID: 05695FOW
Church/Chapel: Fowlis Easter Church
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Angus, Perthshire
Directions to Site: Located just a few km EEN of Dundee
Historical Region: formerly Perthshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, west doorway, south side
Century and Period: 16th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Another such on the north side
A second holy-water stoup, located on the south side of the west doorway is reported in MacGibbon & Ross (1896-1897) together with the one they illustrate [cf. Index entry for Fowlis No. 2]. No description given; assumed to be a pair with the other]. Not documented in Walker (1887); not noted in Biggs (2005) either. [cf. Index entry for Fowlis No. 1 for a noteworthy baptismal font of the 16th century in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one?

REFERENCES

MacGibbon, David, Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland: from the Earliest Christian Times to the Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1896-1897