Evin-Malmaison / Aivem / Esvin-lez-Douai / Esvin-Malmaison

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view of church exterior - west view

Source caption: "Évin-Malmaison, avant la Grande Guerre : l'église." -- 12thC church destroyed in WWII according to one source, but the present church looks identical to the one in a pre-1914 photograph (was it just 'damaged'?)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Évin-Malmaison, avant la Grande Guerre : l'église." -- 12thC church destroyed in WWII according to one source, but the present church looks identical to the one in a pre-1914 photograph (was it just 'damaged'?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine, 2024
Image Source: digital image of a [pre-1914] B&W photograph in the Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine. Fonds des albums Valois - Département du Pas-de-Calais - Volume 26 (VAL 308) [https://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Evin-Malmaison_eglise_cpa.jpg] [accessed 16 January 2024]
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view of church exterior - northwest view

Source caption: " L'église d'Evin Malmaison" -- 12thC church destroyed in WWII according to one source, but the present church looks identical to the one in a pre-1914 photograph (was it just 'damaged'?)
Scene Description: Source caption: " L'église d'Evin Malmaison" -- 12thC church destroyed in WWII according to one source, but the present church looks identical to the one in a pre-1914 photograph (was it just 'damaged'?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Felouch Kotek, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 5 January 2008 by Felouch Kotek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evin_M.jpg] [accessed 16 January 2024]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 02872EVI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font?
Cognate Fonts: Other Tournai fonts, including Vermand [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale catholique Saint-Vaast d'Évin-Malmaison
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Vedast [aka Foster, Vaast, Vedastus]
Church Notes: 12thC church; destroyed in WWII according to one source, but the present church looks identical to the one in a pre-1914 photograph (damaged?)
Church Address: 6 Pl. Roger Salengro, 62141 Évin-Malmaison, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Evin-Malmaison is located off the D161, N of the A21, just S of Tournai, 10 km NNW of Douai, about 25 km S of Lille
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Additional Comments: unable at this point [January 2024] to confirm what, if any, has survived of this font
Font Notes:
A fragment of a ca. 1100 baptismal font "en pierre bleue de Tournai" is listed by Enlart (1902). Cited in Cloquet (1895). Rolland (1933) mentions similar lions on the base of the fonts at Vermand and Evin-Malmaison, a decoration inspired in the style of Roman sarcophages. In Héliot (1953), with reference to Enlart and Rolland. The Bulletin de la Commission Départementale des Monumets Historiques du Pas-de-Calais, 2eme série, tome VI, 1re livraison (Saint-Omer: Imp. Loiez, 1936) [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6327205d/f114.item] [accessed 17 January 2024] mentions that a "M. Théodore offre une ancienne photographie des fonts baptismaux d'Evin-Malmaison, provenant des papiers de Mgr Dehaisnes", and adds that the sandstone basin is of such a crude workmanship that it is impossible to assign it a dating. Oursel (1994: 227) points out that the base of this font is vastly superior to the one on the Vermand font [cf. Index entry]. Listed in Drake (2002: 176) as a Tournai font. The listing for this font in Palissy [ref.: PM62003755] has: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Cuve en grès et base en pierre de Tournai [...] 12e siècle [...] D = 70 [...] Dans la chapelle sud ouest."
In a communication between Jean-Claude Ghislain and Pol Herman (e-mail of 22 April 2022) Ghislain wrote: "Voici quelques repères relatifs aux éléments de fonts baptismaux romans tournaisiens dont vous citez les noms de lieux [...] Evin-Malmaison (Pas-de-Calais) dans l'église : la base avec le fût". [NB: we have been unable to ascertain whether any part of the font has survived; the ca. 1902 entry by Enlart [cf. supra] mentioned only a fragment of the base; some later sources, except Oursel [cf supra] appear to indicate that the whole church was destroyed in WWII -- have communicated these uncertainties and misgivings to Pol Herman (e-mail of 16 January 2024)].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 502626 5587316
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.437858, 3.036979
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 26′ 16.29″ N, 3° 2′ 13.12″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Tournai)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 319
  • 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. 176
  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 45, 244
  • Héliot, Pierre, Les anciennes cathédrales d'Arras. Extr. du Bulletin de la Commission royale des Monuments et des Sites, t. IV, 1953, 1953, p. 104
  • Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994, p. 227
  • Rolland, Paul, "Les sources de la sculpture romane tournaisienne d'exportation. (Extrait des Annales, du Congrès d'Anvers 1930, pp. 227- 249), 1931 [compte-rendu]", 33 (1933), 74, Revue du Nord, 1933, pp. 149-155; p. 153