Mealastadh / Mealister
INFORMATION
FontID: 14787MEA
Church/Chapel: Chapel? [Tigh nan Cailleachan Dubha?]
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Argyll and Bute
Directions to Site: Located on the SW coast of Loch Roag, Isle of Lewis, in the Hebrides
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Muir (1873) notes "a rudely-formed font of ellyptical shape" near the ruins of a building known as Tigh nan Cailleachan Dubha.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
REFERENCES
Muir, Thomas S., Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885