Wast / Le Wast
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04699WAA
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Michel du Wast
Church Address: 4 Rue du Moulin 62142 Le Wast, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D127, N of the N42, 13 km E of Boulogne-sur-Mer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: capital-shaped holy-water stoup which, contrary to appearances, probably was never a capital. Lasteyrie argues that the upper ornamentation of rope mouldings and foliage would not be found on any capital.
Font Notes:
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Described in Lasteyrie (1929) as a capital-shaped holy-water stoup which, contrary to appearances, probably was never a capital. Lasteyrie (ibid.) argues that the upper ornamentation of rope mouldings and foliage would not be found on any capital.
**********THIS MAY BE THE SAME STOUP REPORTED IN ENLART IN Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029258] ***TO BE RESOLVED***
**********THIS MAY BE THE SAME STOUP REPORTED IN ENLART IN Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029258] ***TO BE RESOLVED***
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 415531 5622721
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.750118, 1.802616
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 45′ 0.43″ N, 1° 48′ 9.42″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: capital
REFERENCES
- Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929, p. 711