What is recorded here

Mansfieldstown font, moved to St. Mary's nave in County Louth, still wears a biting beast at one corner and leaves the other three to leafy line work. Its shallow limestone basin, no deeper than a child's arm, may have held baptism water through late medieval feasts, fears and feuds. The plain sides keep their chisel marks like a hurry caught mid-gesture, as if the maker decorated what could be seen and stopped when the work was done.

A rectangular font of limestone (H 0.47m; Wth 0.6m; T 0.58m; internal diam 0.43m; internal D 0.2m). Originated in Mansfieldstown and is now located at the W end of the nave of St. Mary's church (LH017-101007-). Decorated at one angle with a biting beast's head and at the other three with a foliate design. Between the decorated angles chisel marks cover the plain surfaces. It is probably late medieval in date. (Bradley 1984, 284) See the attached image Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 28 June 2012

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