Rodel / Roghadal / Rowdill
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: drawing in Ross (1884-1885)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2011 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 September 2011)
view of object
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Ross (1884-1885)
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view of object
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2011 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 September 2011)
INFORMATION
FontID: 14842ROD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Clement / Tùr Chliamhainn
Church Patron Saints: St. Clement
Church Location: A859, Isle of Harris HS5 3TW, United Kingdom
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Western Isles, Eilean Siar / Outer Hebrides
Directions to Site: Located at Renish Point, off the A859, in the southermost tip of Harris, in the Outer Hebrides
Historical Region: formerly Harris
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this site and its objects
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Ross (1884-1885) describes and illustrates an object in the Church of St. Clements at Rowdill [aka Rodel / Roghadal]: "A plain font [...], or holy-water stoup, it is not easy to say which, lies on the floor of the nave". The illustration shows a rectangular block of stone with a hemispherical cavity in it; the measurements given in the source are 20 inches long and 15 inches tall. Like other such objects found in, or brought into churches, this one is quite unlike a font; is it a holy-water stoup? The object is still kept in this church; last photograph available from August 2011.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
57.73967,
-6.960783
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
57° 44′ 22.81″ N,
6° 57′ 38.82″ W
UTM: 29V 621399 6401555
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: rectangular
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Trapezoidal Basin: 38.1 x 50.8 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements in inches in Ross [cf. FontNotes]]
REFERENCES
Ross, Alexander, "Notice of St Clement's Church at Rowdill, Harris", 19, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1884-1885, pp. 118-132; r["References"]