Marown / Kirk Marown

Noted in Oliver (1868) as one of a group of "rude stone vessels called 'fonts'", found in the 'Keills', a type of ecclesiastical building introduced in the middle of the 6th century in the Isle of Man: "the font [...] measures one foot eleven inches long, by ten and a half inches broad". The woodcut which illustrates the object shows a rounded oblong vessel not unlike the ones found in Vielha, in the Spanish Pyrenees [cf. Index entry for Vielha No. 2], or another such found in the region of Hautes-Alpes [cf. Index entry for Salle-les-Alpes No. 6]. Moore (1891?) cites Paul Bridson's notes on the Treen chapels of the parish of Marown (1861) which report "a font about 13 inches by 10 1/2 inches" at the north-east angle of the chapel of St. Lingan [NB: either Bridson or Moore must have erred on the length of the object, which is definitely more than double in length than it is in breadth -- we are therefore using Oliver's mneasurements]