Derryvullan / Derryvullen

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14516DER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [originally from the old church now in ruins]
Font Location in Church: Inside the 19th-century church
Site Location: Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km W of Lisbellaw, just S of Tamlaght Bridge
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, [http://www.archive.org/stream/MN5034ucmf_0/MN5034ucmf_0_djvu.txt] [accessed 26 April 2009]
  • Rowan, Alistair, North West Ulster: the counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, New Haven / London: Yale University Press / Penguin Books, 2003 c1979, p. 228