Hesdin / Hesdinfer / Heusden / Le Pelletier-sur-Canche
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view of church exterior - west façade
Scene Description: Source caption: "Le portail et le clocher de l'église Notre-Dame. Hesdin (Pas-de-Calais, France)."
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Image Source: dugital photograph 29 May 2010 by Markus3 (Marc Roussel) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hesdin_(église_Notre-Dame)_1.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hesdin l'église fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Daniel Piton, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2012 by Daniel Piton [https://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Hesdin_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03145HES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame d'Hesdin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 5 rue de la Paroisse, 62140 Hesdin, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 81 96 61
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located between the D340 and the D349, 40 km SE of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, about 30 km NE of Abbeville, 50-55 km W of Arras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Pays des Sept Vallées / Artois / Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1586?
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Renaissance
Church Notes: an earlier church in 'Vieil-Hesdin' existed there since 11thC, but the whole village was destroyed by Charles V; 1545 church; modified 1585; renovated 20thC -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108309]: "1582"
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a Renaissance Marquise font. The wooden cover and its crane, not the font, are listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62005212]: "Lambris de revêtement ; clôture des fonts baptismaux ; couvercle des fonts baptismaux ; potence des fonts baptismaux". The entry for this church by Philippe Seydoux in La Sauvegarde de l’Art français [https://www.sauvegardeartfrancais.fr/projets/hesdin-eglise-notre-dame/] [accessed 14 August 2022] notes: "Seul témoin du mobilier d’origine, les fonts en grès sont datés de 1586." An uncorroborated source claims the presence in this church of a holy-water stoup dated 1556.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.373753, 2.037578
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 22′ 25.51″ N, 2° 2′ 15.28″ E
UTM: 31U 431563 5580630
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century
Material: wood
Apparatus: side crane
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902