Mealastadh / Mealister
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14787MEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel? [Tigh nan Cailleachan Dubha?]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the SW coast of Loch Roag, Isle of Lewis, in the Hebrides
Additional Comments: abandoned font? / disused font?
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mealista
Font Notes:
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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, p. 40