Beuvry

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin de Beuvry"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Felouch Kotek, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2012 by Felouch Kotek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Beuvry.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2025]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin de Beuvry"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Felouch Kotek, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2012 by Felouch Kotek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beuvry_Église_Saint-Martin.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2025]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ville de Beuvry, 2025

Image Source: screen capture from Ville de Beuvry [https://www.villedebeuvry.fr/eglisesaintmartin/] [accessed 9 February 2025]

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view of font, cover and baldaquin - drawing

Scene Description: the disappeared 16thC(?) font [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Archives, Pas-de-Calais, 2025

Image Source: digital image of a 1858 drawing in the Revue de l’Art Chrétien [http://archivesenligne.pasdecalais.fr/v2/ark:/64297/80c840bbe9bcff509cd6bcb8af1de8cc] [accessed 9 February 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02826BEU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 19 Rue Sadi Carnot, 62660 Beuvry, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D72, 3 km ESE of Béthune, about 35 km SW of Lille
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century (?),
Workshop/Group/Artisan: baldaquin font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting the disappeared font
Church Notes: 16thC church damaged in WWI; restoted thereafter; listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108207]: "16e siècle"
Baldaquin font of the 16th-17th century according to Enlart (1902), The font and its baldachin are illustrated in the Revue de l'art chretien, T.II, Pl. VI, April 1858 [https://archivesenligne.pasdecalais.fr/v2/ad62/visualiseur/iconographie.html?id=163501963] [accessed 9 February 2025] [NB: that font may have been destroyed in WWI; the present font is modern].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.522482, 2.680321
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 31′ 20.93″ N, 2° 40′ 49.16″ E
UTM: 31U 477339 5596774

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: , type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no
Notes: baldachin with figural decoration and crown finial

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902