What is recorded here

Herbertstown Church lost its square granite font to parishioners before 1990, who carried the circular basin and central drain-hole across the county to St. Peter’s R. C. Church at Two-Mile-House. The font had stood on a now-lost column, but the community chose to keep the water vessel rather than lose it entirely. That act suggests baptism mattered more there than building ownership, and the stone still holds the shape of every child rinsed in it.

A square-shaped granite baptismal font (dims. L 0.53m; Wth 0.55m; H 0.19m) with a circular basin (top diam. 0.4m; base diam. 0.32m; D 0.14m) and central drain-hole (0.04m) with moulding (H 0.05m; diam. 0.42m; T 0.02m) running around base of font which sat on top of a circular column (diam. 0.38m) now lost. Removed from Herbertstown Church (KD023-018----) some time before 1990 by local parishioners and placed in the grounds of St. Peter’s R. C. Church, Two-Mile-House (Gibson 1990, 60). Cross referenced with KD024-066----. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by William Gibson Date of revised upload: 23 April 2019

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