Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Bannow, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bannow
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21069, -6.79410
- SMR number
- WX045-045009-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
The highly decorated Romanesque font from this church is now in the Roman Catholic church at Carrick on Bannow (WX046 011 ) (Corlett 2012). It is complete (H 0.87m) and was probably made from Dundry stone but is now painted white. It has a rectangular base (dims 0.6m x 0.61m; H 0.26m), a plain circular stem (diam. 0.48m), and the rectangular basin (dims 0.62m x 0.59m; H 0.4m) has banded decoration that is similar on two sides, but different on the other two, and shows Anglo-Saxon influence.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 July, 2013
References
Corlett, C. 2012 Two Romanesque fonts in Wexford. Archaeology Ireland 26 (4), 17-19.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.