Cuinchy / Cuinci-lez-la-Bassée / Quinciacum / Quincy-vers-Béthune

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cuinchy (Pas-de-Calais) église"

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 July 2013 by Havang(nl) ]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuinchy_(Pas-de-Calais)_église.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 14 December 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03041CUI
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 1 Pl. Abbé Cazin, 62149 Cuinchy, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 65 17 22
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Location off the D166-D166E3 crossroads, 8 km E of Béthune, 32 km SW of Lille
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: L'Artois / Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: 1488
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Gothic
Church Notes: church destroyed in WWI; re-built thereafter on a new site
Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of octagonal fonts ornamented with mouldings. Font listed in Palissy [ref. : PM62000555]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Grès [...] Année de création: 1488 [...] Description historique: Disparus en 1914." The entry for this church in Geneawiki [https://fr.geneawiki.com/wiki/62262_-_Cuinchy?mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop] [accessed 14 December 2023] notes: "Église Saint-Pierre refaite après 1918, avec fonts baptismaux de 1488" [NB: the information from two of the sources [cf. supra] is contradictory; was the font restored/returned and installed in the new church? We have been unable to confirm the presence of the old font in the new church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.52, 2.7494
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 31′ 12″ N, 2° 44′ 57.84″ E
UTM: 31U 482235 5596479

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