Bruay-sur-l'Escaut
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03032BRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Cognate Fonts: Crespin
Church / Chapel Name: Ancienne église Sainte-Pharaïlde de Bruay-sur-l'Escaut
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Pharaïlde de Gand [aka Pharaildis, Veerle]
Church Notes: an 8thC chapel dedicated to Sainte-Pharaïlde was destroyed by the Vikings ca. 880; late-10thC a 'Basilica Sanctae Pharaïldis' built; present church 1891-1893
Church Address: 1 Rue Waldeck Rousseau, 59860 Bruay-sur-l'Escaut, France -- Tel.: +33 3 59 38 04 88
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Bruay-sur-l'Escaut is located off the D75 and the D935A, in the N outskirts of Valenciennes, on the W bank of the Escaut river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart in a group of ocatagonal fonts ornamented with mouldings (Enlart, 1902)
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 538420 5582706
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.39515, 3.54054
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 23′ 42.54″ N, 3° 32′ 25.94″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 775 footnote 3