Edinburgh No. 6

Marshall (2009) notes a font "which stood on a paved area just inside the south door" in the late 15th century. Marshall reproduces an interior plan of St. Giles' before the Reformation, originally from George Hay (1975-6), which shows the font between the chapels of St. Duthec, to the east, and Saints Crispin and Crispiian to the west. Marshall (ibid.) notes also a later font, introduced during the late-19th century renovation of the church: "A new Caen stone font, in the form of a kneeling angel holding out a large shell which forms the basin", as well as "a replica of a font in Copenhagen by the famous Danish neoclassical sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen". [NB: a church is known to have existed since before Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier fonts]