Fortingall / Fartairchill

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the early-20th century church; the top of the modern font visible at the back (east), right (south) side

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the early-20th century church; the modern font visible in the foreground, left (south) side

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view of font

Scene Description: the font from the old church [cf. Font notes]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fortingall Churchyard, Old Baptismal Font"

Image Source: digital photograph 15 April 2014 in the Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh [https://canmore.org.uk/file/image/1426385] [accessed 11 May 2024]

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view of object - cross

Scene Description: three fragments of the early cross; claimed to be ca. 800 [cf. Font notes]

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view of object - tombstone?

Scene Description: claimed to be ca. 600 [cf. Font notes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16967FOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cedd

Church Patron Saints: St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]

Church Location: Fortingall, Aberfeldy PH15 2LW, United Kingdom

Country Name: Scotland

Location: Perth & Kinross

Directions to Site: Located in Glen Lyon, 11 km W of Aberfeldy, on the NE shore of Loch Tay, about 50 km NW of Perth

Font Location in Church: Outside the church, E side of the porch of the new church

Century and Period: 8th - 12th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Lussey, of www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk, for the photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Rees (2003) as "an early stone font, carved from a massive boulder. It is known as Adomnán's font after the monk from Iona who is said to have worked in Glen Lyon." The baptismal font in use inside the church, at the east end of the nave, near the altar, is modern, like the church itself, which dates to 1901 [NB: the old church was demolished in 1901]. Outside, in the porch, half built into the wall, is an object known as "St. Adomnán's font" and claimed locally to be the baptismal font from the original church here ca. 700 A.D. [NB: local lore also lays claim to Fortingall being the birth-place of Pontius Pilate]. The crude basin appears polygonal on the outside, very irregular, with a rounded basin well; it is raised on a makeshift base of square shape, built of several blocks. There appears to be nothing on the font to substantiate the early-date claim, but there is a burial stone claimed to be ca. 600 A.D., and three fragments of a Pictish cross slab said to date from ca. 800 [NB: the 'Pictish' slab is decorated with an elaborate interlace of linked rings and may indeed have been originally part of an early cross].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.59789, -4.05541

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 35′ 52.4″ N, 4° 3′ 19.48″ W

UTM: 30V 435198 6273125

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003