Font (present location) in Walterstown (skreen By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half a metre of white limestone, cut into a cube with a wave-crested rim and a flat-bottomed basin, stands locked in the south porch of Walterstown church. It came from the lost site at Staffordstown around 1975, carried two and a half kilometres southeast to keep living where people still gather. The D-shaped panels hanging beneath its rim suggest hands that shaped water itself, not merely stone.

The font from the site of Staffordstown church (ME032-001----) was moved c. 1975 to the Roman Catholic Church at Walterstown, which is c. 2.5km to the SE where it is displayed in the S porch that is usually locked. 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

The font was originally associated with Staffordstown church and was moved to Walterstown Roman Catholic Church around 1975; its style suggests a medieval origin, and it is significant as a relocated ecclesiastical relic.

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