Font in Staffordstown (skreen By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Waves carved into white limestone break across the rim of a cubic font, holding water in a deep circular basin before morphing into D-shaped panels at the base. Kept in the Staffordstown graveyard for generations, it moved c. 1975 to the Roman Catholic church at Walterstown, where it still stands in the south porch. The stone may have baptized children, sealed vows or marked grief, yet its shape suggests flow rather than authority, as if faith itself had learned to surge and retreat like tide water.

A font that was kept in the graveyard (ME032-001001-) was moved c. 1975 to the Roman Catholic church at Walterstown, c. 2.5km to the SE, where it is displayed in the S porch. It is a cubic piece of white limestone (dims 0.62m x 0.62m; max. H 0.56m) that has chamfered corners and a circular, flat-bottomed basin (int. diam. 0.5m; max. D 0.32m). The rim is wave-like and the form morphs to circular (diam. 0.4m) at the bottom so that the large panels are D-shaped (max. H 0.37m) hanging from the rim. (Roe 1968, 127-8) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 January, 2015

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