Glencairn Museum No. 9
Image copyright © The Glencairn Museum, Academy of the New Church, Brynn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 2004
Image and Permission received (e-mail 10/3/2004)
Results: 2 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Glencairn Museum, Academy of the New Church, Brynn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 2004
Image Source: The Glencairn Museum, Academy of the New Church, Brynn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail 10/3/2004)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Glencairn Museum, Academy of the New Church, Brynn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 2004
Image Source: The Glencairn Museum, Academy of the New Church, Brynn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail 10/3/2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 09422GLE
Museum and Inventory Number: The Glencairn Museum, The Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, PA
Church/Chapel: [provenance unknown]
Country Name: United States
Location: Pennsylvania
Directions to Site: The Glencairn Museum of the Academy of the New Church, is located in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Glencairn Museum facilitated the following description to BSI for their item with inventory no. 09.SP.160: "Sculpture, stone. French. Fountain with arcades. XII century[...]. Provenance: [unknown]. Description: round font decorated with an arcade which is superimposed on a polygon. Columns of arcade are squat and undecorated, arches have one row of dentils. Four large indentations along upper rim -- possibly some superstructure existed. Inferior only half hollowed out. In center of bottom one hole. Condition: fair to good; around one indentation considerable damage; one large crack, slight damage along lower rim." [We are grateful to The Glencairn Museum, Academy of the New Church, Brynn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and to Nathan Cole, for the information on, and images of this object] [NB: although the object has not positively been identified as a baptismal font, there are so many similarities with fonts of the period that its production -if not its function- must be related, hence its inclusion in this Index]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 71.1-72.3 cm
Basin Total Height: 54.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: The Glencairn Museum [e-mail to BSI 10/3/2004]