Blaris, nr. Lisburn

INFORMATION

FontID: 07464BLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: [not in a church]
Country Name: Northern Ireland
Location: Lisburn, Belfast Metropolitan Area
Directions to Site: Lisburn is located 14-15 km SW of Belfast
Font Location in Church: [reported by the side of a cottage in Blaris ca. 1976]
Cognate Fonts: Said to be similar to the one found at Shankill graveyard in Belfast
Font Notes:
Fred Kee, in his Lisburn Miscellany (Lisburn: Lisburn Historical Society, 1976 [e-version]: p. 17) writes: "On leaving [the churchyard of Blaris Church], I was shown an old baptismal font which had been hollowed out of, I would think, sandstone. It was lying at the side of the cottage, a relic of the past". [www.lisburn.com/books/lisburn_miscellany]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?
Number of Pieces: one