Edinburgh, Dublin Street
Font (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Edinburgh, Dublin Street
Classification Font (Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 52269
Site Number NT27SE 250
NGR NT 2560 7443
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52269
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Publication Account (1951)
NT27SE 250 2560 7443
Stone basin, 31 Dublin Street.
In the back garden of this property 31 stands an octagonal drum of freestone, measuring 1ft 11 1/2ins in height and 2ft in diameter, in the top of which a circular basin with a diameter of 1ft 4ins has been hollowed out to a depth of some 5ins. The block has been fashioned with some care. The top and the basin sunk in it are both smoothly worked, but while the vertical surfaces have dressed arrises they are otherwise only quarry-dressed. Standing as it does within a stone's throw of the site of the old village of Broughton, the object may possibly have been a pre-Reformation baptismal font; its size and shape are in keeping with this explanation, but on the other hand it may well be only a flower-pot.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941