Tyndrum / Taigh an Druim
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16969TYN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Priory Church [in ruins]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 26 km E of Oban; the ruins of the priory church are no on Kirkton Farm
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndrum
Font Notes:
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Rees (2003) mentions a font from the old priory church, a font in which "deranged people" were made to put their heads, as the waters were said to cure insanity [only ruins remain of the old priory church; the font itself probably disappeared a long time ago]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003, p. 86