Curtown House

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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at the top of the octagonal shaft

INFORMATION

FontID: 09222CUR
Church/Chapel: Curtown House [orig. in the ruined church of Roddenstown or Balrodden, Kilcloon parish]
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Meath / An Mhí, Leinster
Directions to Site: Located about 2 km from Kilcock
Font Location in Church: In the garden at Curtown House
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Described in Roe (1968: 113) as a medieval baptismal font, "well-cut and remarkably unweathered. Octagonal in form with deeply chamfered underpanels, the vessel has a circular basin [i.e., inner well] with a central drain, now filled in. The font stands on a low polygonal pedestal with a roll moulding at the upper edge"; the lower base, also octagonal is described as probably modern. Roe (ibid.) informs that Cogan [cf. Authors Notes below] had reported it "as being in the ruined church of Roddenstown or Balrodden in the parish of Kilcloon" in his time.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: [now plugged]
Rim Thickness: 7 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 46 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm [calculated]
Basin Depth: 15.3 cm
Height of Basin Side: 19 cm
Height of Base: 28 cm
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 19 cm high x 24 cm wide
Basin Lower Panel Dimensions: 28 cm high x 23 cm wide, tapering to 12.7 cm wide
Notes on Measurements: Roe (1968: 113) [NB: Roe gives 17.2 cm width for the panels of the shaft]

REFERENCES

Cogan, Anthony, The Diocese of Meath: Ancient and Modern, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1992 (c1862)
Roe, Helen M., Medieval Fonts of Meath, Longford, Ireland: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968