What is recorded here

Half a metre of granite and a square hole for water to leave: the font in Grange Upper still stands inside the ruined church of Grangesylvia, its crude rectangular bowl no deeper than a child’s wrist. It is the kind of making that does not pretend to be beautiful, which is why it is memorable. A priest may have poured water over infant heads beside this rough edge, or a family may have gathered around it when the nave still had a roof. Either way the chamber held life, and the font is what remains of that certainty.

Within the nave area of the ruined medieval church of Grangesylvia (KK025-002001-) there is a crude rectangular granite font (max. dims. 0.9m x 0.8m; H 0.37m) with rounded corners. The rectangular bowl (int. dims. 0.56m x 0.46m; D 0.15m; rim T 0.18m) contains a square drain-hole (0.08m x 0.08m) at its centre. See attached photographs: KK025-002003-_01 Font with stoup resting within it Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 February 2022

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