Font in Painestown (duleek Lower By., Painestown Par.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half a font stands in the Painestown graveyard, its octagonal sandstone bowl chopped to a stub. The missing shaft and upper bowl vanished before anyone recorded the loss, leaving only a cylindrical hole waiting for wood that never returned. What remains is a baptismal basin reduced to a socket, still holding the shape of water and the absence of the hand that poured it.

Part of an octagonal sandstone font (H 0.34m) consisting of the base of the bowl (diam. 0.39m; max. surviving D 0.1m) and the chamfered under-panels with a large cylindrical mortise (diam. 2m; D 0.2m) underneath to take the shaft is in the graveyard of Painestown parish church (ME026-002----). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July, 2014

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