What is recorded here

Half buried in grass beside the public road, the font waited for discovery with an X incised across its base. Hewson found it broken in 1893, but the church later pulled it inside, setting the plain limestone basin against the north wall where water can still collect for life. The hidden mark suggests the font was not merely a vessel but a boundary, separating the living room from the road and reminding whoever passes that even abandoned things keep their shape.

Within the medieval church of Kylebeg (KK020-057001-). When noted by Hewson (1893, 208) the font, 'lies broken and half buried in the ground, and concealed in grass, between the north-east corner of the church and the public road'. The font was subsequent moved inside the church and now rests against the N wall of the nave, immediately E of the doorway. A plain limestone font is square in plan (dims. 0.56m x 0.56m; H 0.25m) and has a circular basin (int. diam. 0.41m; D 0.22m; rim T 0.04m) with a small drain-hole at its center. The base (dims. 0.45m x 0.4m) has a groove (Wth 0.02m) to receive the bowl and the surface is incised with an X. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 December 2020

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