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Font in Powerstown East

Font

What is recorded here

Goreshide and Powerstown both claim the fluted basin, yet only Goreshide still holds it. The font left Powerstown and entered St George’s Church, carrying its water memory into a new town.
Describing the 'ancient' church of Powerstown, Robertson (1872-3, 256-7), mentions that, 'on entering the Church, we find the basin of a splendid early English font...The font is fluted and closely resembles those at St. Canice's Cathedral and St. Mary's Church'. This font was moved to St George’s Church, Goresbridge, previously known as St Mary’s Church, which lies 3.1km to the NNE (see KK021-055----) (Grattan-Bellew 1979, 45). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

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