Baptismal Font, County Kildare (KD014-043002-)

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What is recorded here

In a graveyard (KD014-043003-), on the site of a medieval parish church (KD014-043001-). A plain, rectangular baptismal font (dims. L 0.71m; Wth 0.66m; H 0.34m), contains a shallow, rectangular depression (dims. L 0.43m; Wth 0.38m; D 0.2m), and two small mortices which, Sherlock (1899-1902, 298-9) explains, would have contained 'iron rivets leaded into the stone for the cover and lock required by the Constitution of Edward, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1236' . Sherlock also compares the font to one from Gower in south Wales (op cit). The font may be 13th century in date.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD014-043002

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