Maing
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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symbol - shield - blank - 4
Scene Description: on alternate sides of the octagonal basin
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Géry à Maing (Nord, Hauts-de-France, France)."
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - west portal
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de la nef de l'église Saint-Géry de Maing dans le Nord."
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 August 2019 by Antoine Rex [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maing,_Église_Saint-Géry,_intérieur.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2025]
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view of font
Scene Description: showing damage at opposite ends of the upper rim of the basin
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Géry à Maing (Nord, Hauts-de-France, France)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Potrowl, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 5 July 2015 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maing_-_Église_Saint-Géry_-_33.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03034MAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Géry de Maing
Church Patron Saints: St. Géry
Church Location: 19P Pl. Pierre Cuvelier, 59233 Maing, France -- Tel.: +33 3 27 24 53 25
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Maing is located off the D40, in the municipality and 5 km S of Valenciennes. Other such fonts nearby at Crespin and Bruay-sur-l'Escaut.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Crespin, Bruay-sur-l'Escaut
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of octagonal fonts with ornamental mouldings. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with blank shields on alternate sides of the basin; graded moulding on the underbowl; round stem and round-to-square lower base, both plain. No cover present but evidence of damage related to the presence of metal staples for a cover in the upper rim.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.30599, 3.47802
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 18′ 21.56″ N, 3° 28′ 40.87″ E
UTM: 31U 534040 5572762
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902