Olrig nr. Thurso

INFORMATION

FontID: 14788OLR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Trothans
Church Patron Saints: St. Trothans
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Argyll and Bute
Directions to Site: Located 2 km SW of Castletown, in the county of Caithness, at the NE tip of the Highlands
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1633?
Century and Period: 17th century,
Muir (1873) reports the "the parish kirk has […] been removed to a new site […] Among the modern grave-stones lying around we found […] a cylindrical font twenty inches in length, conically caved in both ends -- a form which I do not remember to have met with before". The RCAHMS entry for St. Trothans Church [aka Olrig Parish Church] [http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk] [accessed 3 June 2009] quotes from the original RCAHMS of 1911: "The ruins of Olrig Parish Church, known as St Trothan's: The structure is roofless and the gables and walls, entirely overgrown with ivy, are levelled to a height of about 10ft all round. The church has measured 49ft by 26ft over all. It presents no features of interest and is said to have been erected in 1633. An old font stands on the left side of the gate to the churchyard." SCRAN [www.scran.ac.uk] [accessed 3 June 2009] informs that the present "Olrig Parish Church (originally a United Free Church) was built in 1913".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Muir, Thomas S., Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885