The Fontenoy Memorial Cross
Designed by Anthony Scott and Son.
Carved by Thompson Bros.
Date: 1 July 1907
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: cross (Irish)
Material: stone
Technique: carved
Description: 'The whole monument stands 19ft 3in. high. Height of cross itself, 12ft 3in., and width across the arms is 4ft. Both the die stone and the cross to be of the very best Kilkenny blue limestone [...] The base, of polished Galway red granite, to be based on the ornaments found in the Book of Kells, the bosses betweeen the arms of the cross in particular, being adapted from some beautiful circular discs found in it. The whole effect further enriched by the cable mouldings carved around all the arrises of the cross and interlacing in panels "ingeniously and skilfully executed". The word 'Fontenoy' worked into an interlaced pattern is shown on the back panel [of the die stone] and at the front, are the arms of Limerick' (The Irish Builder, 1 December 1906, pp. 981-82).
Notes: Designed by Anthony Scott of A. Scott and Son, architects, and executed by Messrs Thompson Brothers, 30 Lower Dominick Street and 1 to 4 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin.
Citing this record
'The Fontenoy Memorial Cross', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1216043373, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
