Skeabost / Old Snizort?
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14786SKE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Church or Chapel of St. Columba? / Old Snizort Church ?
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snizort_Cathedral
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Columba [aka Colmcille, Colomban, Columcille]
Site Location: Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Skeabost Island, an islet on the river Snizort, on the Isle of Skye
Additional Comments: disused font / abandoned font
Font Notes:
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Muir (1873) reports a group of old and, some, ruined chapels on the islet of Skeabost; in the largest and best-preserved one [at the time of Muir's visit], "there is the basin of a baptismal font, square, with rounded corners". The RCAHMS [http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk] [accessed 3 June 2009] refers to Muir's report and notes the existence of two churchs in the area, one medieval, perhaps 11th -century, the other late medieval, 15yh- or 16th-century. It does not mention any font in the archaeological work done in the 20th century there, but notes the further deterioration of the buildings and site.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Muir, Thomas S., Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885, p. 35