Derryvullan / Derryvullen

INFORMATION

FontID: 14516DER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [originally from the old church now in ruins]
Country Name: Northern Ireland
Location: Fermanagh
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km W of Lisbellaw, just S of Tamlaght Bridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the 19th-century church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
Noted in Leslie (1920): "An ancient Gothic font belonging to the old Church, is now preserved in the present one." In Rowan (2003): "Font. Gothic type, taken from the medieval church."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Leslie, James B., Clogher clergy and parishes, being an account of the clwergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, &c., Enmekillen: Printed for the Author at the "Fermanagh Times" Office, by R. H. Ritchie, J.P, 1920
Rowan, Alistair, North West Ulster: the counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, New Haven / London: Yale University Press / Penguin Books, 2003 c1979