White-Church nr. Cork
INFORMATION
FontID: 16033WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel
Country Name: Republic of Ireland
Location: Cork, Munster
Directions to Site: Located outside the city walls
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval? / Restoration?
Font Notes:
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Windele (1849) writes of a "Monastery of the Minorites, or Friars of Scandum" founded in 1231 outside the wall of the city of Cork, at the north side of the river. Also known as North-mall or North-abbey; "a small chapel built subsequently to the dissolution of the Abbey, stood here until within a few years […] A font belonging to it, is now in the little Chapel of White-church, near Cork". [NB: not clear whether the font originated in the chapel, or was a relic from the original abbey/monastery]
REFERENCES
Windele, J., Historical and descriptive notices of the city of Cork and its vecinity […], Cork: Bradford & Co., 1849