Adare No. 2 / Áth Dara

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Christ - monogram - IHS

Scene Description: on one of the sides of the base

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

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design element - patterns - torsade - 8

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09395ADA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas (C. of I.) [formerly the church of the Trinitarian Abbey]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Limerick, Munster
Directions to Site: Located about 16 km SW of Limerick city, down the N21
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Limerick
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the door
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Charlie Healy, webmaster of www.limerickdioceseheritage.org for the photograph of this font.
The baptismal font in the church of the Augustinian Friary at Adare is octagonal and appears to be of the 16th century or later; the basin is octagonal with vertical sides and decorated with a roll moulding at the top, and torsade columns at the angles; at least one of the sides has a symbol [monogram?]; the chamfer is tall and slightly curved linkning to a short octagonal base decorated with two thin roll mouldings; the lower end splays slightly, raised on a square plinth; quadrangular 'kneeling stone'. Flat wooden cover, probably modern. [cf. Index entry for Adare No. 1 for an earlier font now at St. Nicholas']

COORDINATES

UTM: 29U 514235 5823792

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain