Devenish
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14518DEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Molaise (C. of I.) [originally from the Abbey Church ]
Font Location in Church: Inside the Parish Church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Laserian [aka Laisren, Molaise, Molaissi]
Site Location: Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The Abbey is located on Devenish Island (Lough Erne), 2-3 km N of Enniskillen. The Parish Church is located in Monea
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devenish_Island
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font in Devenish Abbey is mentioned in a 1876 annotated version of the Monasticon Hibernicum (1786), with reference to a 1874 article by Wakeman.
Noted in Rowan (2003) as one of several pieces brought over to the Parish Church of St. Molaise from Devenish Abbey: "Font. A black stone bowl on an octagonal shaft".
Noted in Rowan (2003) as one of several pieces brought over to the Parish Church of St. Molaise from Devenish Abbey: "Font. A black stone bowl on an octagonal shaft".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Rowan, Alistair, North West Ulster: the counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, New Haven / London: Yale University Press / Penguin Books, 2003 c1979, p. 423
- Wakeman, William Drederick, "The antiquities of Devenish", January 1874, Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 1874