Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19695, -6.11262
- SMR number
- WI004-001008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A sandstone cube (52cm x 50cm across) with a central hole (diam. 28.5cm) almost the full depth of the cube. The central hole has a small hole at the base of each of the four corners of it. Three of the external faces are decorated with the same design which features a central boss with foliage extending from it to each corner in false relief. Found in August 2004 in the graveyard of St. Paul's Church, Bray. (Corlett 2006, 144-6)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 8 January 2013
References
Corlett C. 2005 A 17th century font from Bray, Co. Wicklow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 135, 144-6.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.