Torpichen / Tóir Féichín

INFORMATION

FontID: 10318TOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Old Knights Templar Preceptory

Country Name: Scotland

Location: West Lothian

Directions to Site: Located 3 km N of Barthgate, 10 km SW of Linlithgow

Historical Region: formerly Linlithgowshire

Font Location in Church: Reported within the choir of the old preceptory ca. 1880

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-1885) reported a baptismal font in the choir of the ruins of the old preceptory [or hospital] of Torpichen, "from 1153 the principal Scottish residence of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem" [aka Hospitalers, KnightsTemplar]. No other reports on this font have been located since.