Gorey
Image copyright © Brian Andrews, 2007
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Andrews, 2007
Image Source: photograph by Brian Andrews [www.puginfoundation.org/file.php?id=963] [accessed 2 December 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 13247GOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Wexford, Leinster
Directions to Site: Located on the N11, about half way between Wicklow (N) and Wexford (S)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1843?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Workshop/Group/Artisan: designed by Pugin
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Brian Andrews [s.d.] [www.puginfoundation.org]: "a splendid baptismal font" designed by Pugin, "even if it has apparently spent around a century and a half out of doors along the sacristy. Its strong simple interpenetrating geometric forms bring to mind the font he designed for St Mary's, Brewood, Staffordshire, c. 1844. This font [i.e., Gorey's] was replaced by one purchased in Belgium by St Michael's benefactor Stephen Ram, probably in 1858 [...] In turn it too was ousted and it now stands in the grounds of the Gorey presbitery"
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, plain and round; probably modern
REFERENCES
Andrews, Brian, "St Michael the Archangel's Curch, Gorey, Ireland", [Pugin Foundation file]