Bruay-sur-l'Escaut
INFORMATION
FontID: 03032BRU
Church/Chapel: Ancienne église Sainte-Pharaïlde de Bruay-sur-l'Escaut
Church Patron Saints: St. Pharaïlde de Gand [aka Pharaildis, Veerle]
Church Location: 1 Rue Waldeck Rousseau, 59860 Bruay-sur-l'Escaut, France -- Tel.: +33 3 59 38 04 88
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
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
Cognate Fonts: Crespin
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
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed by Enlart in a group of ocatagonal fonts ornamented with mouldings (Enlart, 1902)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.39515,
3.54054
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 23′ 42.54″ N,
3° 32′ 25.94″ E
UTM: 31U 538420 5582706
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