Vimy

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view of church exterior - west view

the modern re-built church
Scene Description: the modern re-built church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2006 by Maitre So (?) [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Vimy-eglise.jpg] [accessed 15 June 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

the old church of Vimy before its destruction in WWI
Scene Description: the old church of Vimy before its destruction in WWI
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W postcard of a photograph by "DR", in [www.lejsl.com/social/2011/06/26/je-m-appelle-vimy] [accessed 15 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

Font ID: 00817VIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-06-23
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin [NB: both the church and the font were destroyed in WWI; re-built]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: The church was destroyed in World War I.
Church Address: present church address: Rue Rouget-de-Lisle, 62580 Vimy, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N17, 10 km N of Arras (dir. Lens)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Additional Comments: disappeared / destroyed font: cf. Font notes
Font Notes:
Enlart (1902: 777n1, 779) lists the Vimy font as a square Tournai mounted on a five-column base, its basin sides ornamented with animals. Described in Oursel (1994: 226) as having a decorative program similar to the font at Lincoln cathedral, the lions furnished with heads proportionally too small for the bodies. Oursel (ibid.) suggests a dating in the first quarter of the 12th century for the disappeared font of Vimy. [NB: the town of Vimy was totally destroyed during World War I, including the church and the font, like the one at Saint-Venant]. Listed in Drake (2002: 177) as a baptismal font of the Tournai group. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62001881] as a sandstone baptismal of the 12th century, "Détruits en 1914."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 486589 5580154

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Notes on Measurements: [cf. Index entries for other Tournai fonts with similar measurements]

REFERENCES

  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 205 (after Enlart)
  • Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 416
  • Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 53, 61, 177
  • Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909, p. 30
  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 777 footnote 1, p. 779
  • Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994, p. 226