Offin / Offin-de-Montreuil
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thadée Szalamacha, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2006 by Thadée Szalamacha [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Offin_église2.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2017]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thierry Léger, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 April 2015 vy Thierry Léger [http://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Offin_église_02.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2017]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03747OFF
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Sylvain
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Silvanus of Ahun [aka Salvan, Sauvan, Silvain, Souvain, Sylvanus]
Church Address: 62990 Offin, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D130, 12 km SE of Montreuil-sur-Mer, 23 km ESE of Le Touquet
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Les Sept Vallées
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: identified by Enlart as a mortar and being used as a holy water stoup
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as another ancient stone mortar put to use as holy-water stoup in a church. [NB: we haqve no information on the baptismal font of this church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 424916 5588733
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 784 footnote 3