Saint-Leonard / Hocquinghem / Hocquinghen / Hokinghehem / Hokinghem / Hoquinghen / Pont-de-Brique / Saint-Léonard / Saint Liénard / Saint Liénart

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the mouldings on the lower base show where the broad central shadt and the four angle colonnettes fitted -- the whole stem, including the octagonal lower end, and the basin are modern, of the 19thC re-building of the font

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Image Source: digital image of a detail of a B&W photograph (NUMI 82620597X) taken in 1982 by P. Caudroit, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR31_82620597X] [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR31/IM62000937/IMAGES/IM62000937_004.JPG] [accessed 16 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - tower - east view - detail

Scene Description: the contour of the west end of the nave can still be clearly seen on the east side of the tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Potrowl, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Léonard_-_Église_Saint-Léonard_-_9.jpg] [accessed 16 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - tower - east view - detail

Scene Description: in the original church, of which only the tower and the lower base of the font remain, this would have been the tower arch leading from the west end of the nave into the tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Potrowl, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Léonard_-_Église_Saint-Léonard_-_7.jpg] [accessed 16 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - tower - northeast view

Scene Description: the contour of the west end of the nave can still be clearly seen on the east side of the tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Potrowl, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Léonard_-_Église_Saint-Léonard_-_3.jpg] [accessed 16 July 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: according to Mérimée [ref.: IA00062558] the tower is from the original 11th-12thC church; the nave and chancel were re-built in the 19thC

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Potrowl, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Léonard_-_Église_Saint-Léonard_-_1.jpg] [accessed 16 July 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: the composite font, of which only the lower base is original

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général, ADAGP, 2002

Image Source: digital image of a detail of a B&W photograph (NUMI 82620597X) taken in 1982 by P. Caudroit, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR31_82620597X] [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR31/IM62000937/IMAGES/IM62000937_004.JPG] [accessed 16 July 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03135LEO
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Léonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: 62360 Saint-Léonard, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D234-D901-D940 confluence, 3 km S of Boulogne-sur-Mer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Le Boulonnais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N aisle, W end
Century and Period: 12th century [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font / Marquise [Enlart]
Church Notes: 11th-12th?, 15th, 16th, 18th and 19th church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00062558]: "Eglise du 11e ou 12e siècle, reste la tour ouest ; vaisseau sud construit limite 15e siècle 16e siècle ; nef détruite avant 1715 ; choeur détruit fin 18e siècle ; nef et choeur reconstruits 2e moitié 19e siècle ; tour remaniée vers 1860 ; voûtes et fenestrages restaurés en 1961".
Listed by Enlart (1902) as the original lower base of a 12th-century 5-column Marquise font. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: IM62000937]: "fonts baptismaux [calcaire] Le soubassement datent du 12e siècle, le fût et la cuve date probablement du 19e siècle [...] un couvercle en zinc s'encastre dans un cadre en bois fixé sur la cuve ; bassin en plomb à l'intérieur de la cuve".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.6941, 1.61388
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 41′ 38.76″ N, 1° 36′ 49.97″ E
UTM: 31U 402100 5616725

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (base)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: [missing]
Basin Exterior Shape: [missing]
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm* [height of the re-built font]
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM62000937]

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902