Galway No. 3
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 April 2006)
Results: 6 records
BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed
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LB01: design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: around the stem
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R01: design element - patterns - ball-in-socket
Scene Description: stylised; all around
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: holy-water stoup
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Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lis Audigier, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 April 2006)
view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, 2006
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12328GAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Augustine
Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Hippo
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Galway, Connacht
Directions to Site: Located at the head of Galway Bay, 185 km W of Dublin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1859?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lis Audigier for the photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font in black stone [marble?] consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin with pronounced upper rim, the underbowl decorated with stylised ribbed pattern, raised on a slender stem with fluted pattern splaying at the base, and a miniscule quadrangular plinth. The font probably dates from the building of this church between 1856-1859.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round