Kilbixy

INFORMATION

FontID: 09238KIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: [Parish Church?]
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Westmeath / Iarmhí, Leinster
Directions to Site: Located near Ballinacargy
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
Described in Roe (1968: 123) as the surviving fragment of a medieval baptismal font: "It was eight-sided with four wide and four narrow panels, the lower panels chamfered to a greater depth than the vertical height of the upper ones"; Roe further notes that the basin well is circular without a drain, and that its "appearance suggests a post-Reformation date for its making".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: [fragment]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 46.4 cm
Basin Depth: 12.7 cm
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: Wide panels: 21 cm (high x 30.5 expanding to 31.2 cm (wide) -- Narrow panels: 21 cm (high) x 17.8 expanding to 18.5 cm (wide)
Basin Lower Panel Dimensions: Wide panels: 29.8 cm (highj) x 31.2 tapering to 26 cm (wide) -- Narrow panels: 29.8 cm (high) x 18.5 tapering to 14.6 cm (wide)
Notes on Measurements: Roe (1968: 123)

REFERENCES

Roe, Helen M., Medieval Fonts of Meath, Longford, Ireland: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968