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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Thadée Szalamacha [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haute-Avesnes_église.jpg] [accessed 16 July 2017]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03832AVE
Object Type: Other
Object Details: capital, medieval
Font Date: 1535
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: 62144 Hautes-Avesnes, France
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the D62-D939 crossroads, 11 km WNW of Arras, NE of Avesnes-le-Comte
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: L'Avesnois, L'Artois
Additional Comments: re-cycled font (carved from a 13thC capital)
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62000795] as a baptismal font carved out of a sandstone capital of the 13th century.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: capital
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Text: "1535"
Inscription Source: Enlart (1902, p. 785 footnote 1)
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 785 footnote 1
- Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 375 on the church