Selles / Celles / Chelles / Seles
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: showing considerable damage to the upper rim where the old cover staples split the stone
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Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph by Camille Enlart [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029139] [accessed 12 March 2025]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph by Camille Enlart [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029139] [accessed 12 March 2025]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph by Camille Enlart [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029139] [accessed 12 March 2025]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph by Camille Enlart [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029139] [accessed 12 March 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03064SEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin
Church Address: Rte de Lottinghen, 62240 Selles, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 91 65 82
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Selles is located off the D215, 15-16 km E of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Many other fonts listed for this area.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as an octagonal font of Gothic style. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029139]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 422003 5617015
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.699722, 1.895556
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 41′ 59″ N, 1° 53′ 44″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat with four vertical crocketed ribs and a cross finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 775 footnote 4
- 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.