Beussent No. 2 / Beussant / Beussen / Beughessent / Beusseng / Boegessent / Bolcent / Bongescent / Bucquessem / Bulcent / Enessem / Inquesent / Villa Hainessendae

INFORMATION

Font ID: 03744BEU

Object Type: Stoup

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Omer

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Omer [aka Audomar, Audomarus, Odemaars]

Church Notes: medieval church replaced 19th-20thC

Church Address: 10 Rue de l'Église, 62170 Beussent, France -- Tel.: +33 3 21 06 80 94

Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located of the D127, near Etaples and Montreuil, 15 km from the coast, 24 km SE of Boulogne-sur-Mer, 75 km from Arras

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras

Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Additional Comments: recycled stoup: identified by Enlart as a former mortar

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed by Enlart (1902) as a former mortar now being used as holy-water stoup in this church. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62000305], also as 12th-century, made of sandstone, without a mention of it being a former mortar.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 415300 5600992

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.554711, 1.804311

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 33′ 16.96″ N, 1° 48′ 15.52″ 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. 784 footnote 3