Calais
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03039CAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font2, fragment?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century (?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église Notre-Dame
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108246]: "14e siècle"
Church Address: 17 Rue Notre Dame / Rue de la Paix, 62100 Calais, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 36 38 23
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Location in Calais: off Rue de la Paix/Rue Notre Dame, just N of the Parc Richelieu
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Additional Comments: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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The 1840-1841 session of the Comité historique des arts et monuments, published in the Bulletin Archéologique, vol. 1, pt. 2 (1843: 82) mentions in passing a baptismal font in this church. Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of octagonal fonts ornamented with mouldings. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62008391]: "Base des fonts baptismaux [...] Base carrée [...] Grès : taillé [...] Elément daté du 12e siècle ou du 13e siècle." However the corresponding illustration in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00078609] shows a font that is octagonal on the basin, pedestal base and lower base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 419410 5645829
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.958426, 1.852512
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 30.34″ N, 1° 51′ 9.04″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 775 footnote 3
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.